Wallet Watch: Clipper Girls Saving Spot!

By Annette Newell
Six, Ten, & Nightside Edition Anchor
Published: August 6, 2008

We don’t have to go far from home here in the east to find people who are coming up with innovative ways to pinch pennies.

Barbara Stokes from Winterville wrote us to say her goal is to help others save money.

In tonight’s Wallet Watch, she says she knows that not everyone has the time to check coupon forums and blogs for the best deals, so she does it for them.

“A couple or three nights a week I’m on here looking for the deals,” says Barbara Stokes.

Just call her clipper girl. 

“I’ve had times at Kroger where they’ve paid me money to shop. I get a lot of stuff free.  Now, I refuse to pay over a dollar for anything,” she says.

Barbara makes it her mission to scout out coupons, deals and bargains.

Harris Teeter will double up to twenty coupons per visit.

She spreads the gospel about them on her website.  It’s clippergirlssavingspot.blogspot.com.  Her blog aims at helping shoppers in the Greenville area find deals.

“What I’ve learned is multiples are the way to save money.  To really maximize you want to stockpile so I’ve got a stockpile in two or three different areas in the house.  Thank goodness we have a lot of closet space,” says Stokes.

Barbara even teaches couponing classes at her church.  And this coupon queen loves to not spend when she shops.

“A friend and I went on a massive all day shopping spree which we don’t do often and hit all the stores and like I said I got about six hundred eighty one dollars for eighty three dollars,” she says.

But she says the best deals in life are free.

“There’s certain things that you’ll never pay for again,” Barbara says. “Toothpaste I’ve not paid for in a year!”

Again, Barbara’s money saving blog is clippergirlssavingspot.blogspot.com.

We want to hear about your money-saving ideas too, just type in the Keywords: Wallet Watch right here on wnct.com.