Thursday, August 30, 2007

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Please watch the clip from the holidays where a generous stranger saves the day.



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DALLAS - Christmas will not be so bleak, after all, thanks to strangers touched by a family's misfortune.

Wednesday, News 8 reported on a family whose Christmas presents had been stolen from underneath their tree. All that the thieves left were four boxes of popcorn. Glenda Bruce's children -- two of whom are mentally and physically challenged -- faced a holiday without gifts.

But Bruce's story resonated with North Texans, and just as in 'The Grinch Who Stole Christmas,' the thieves could not take away the spirit of the season.

"For someone to take somebody's Christmas like that... that's wrong," said Cheryl Jackson. "And there's somebody who can help, and I want to be that somebody."

Jackson said she has a heart for giving. Next month, she will launch her radio show called "The Giving Movement."

"I know so many people, and everybody has ten or so people in their circle," Jackson said. "Imagine if everybody gave just $50! You could change a life!"

And that's just what happened. Family and friends of Jackson started calling and donating. Dallas police received a bicycle and cash from strangers.

The Bruce family's luck changed.

"This will be something they'll tell their kids and their kids' kids. Then they'll teach them," Jackson said. "They'll move it forward and do it for somebody else."

At last check, more than $1,200 had been raised, and the family got to go on a new Christmas shopping spree.

Tuesday, August 21, 2007

My friend named Tri purchased 126 bottles of water for $5.16

Who says you can't get bottled water for almost FREE. My friend Tri who is a single parent, corporate guru and one that doesn't have time to shop or save money was at my house. I opened up a bottle of water and she liked them so she asked where did I get the water.

I told her Target and that we only paid .03 cents per bottle. She then became a believer in coupons and where or where can I get this coupon she asked. I gave Tri the information and when she saw me again she proudly talked about her shopping adventure where she bought 30 bottles of water for .90 cents.

It seems as though every day Tri was at the store, stockpiling the waters. She was so proud of herself and I was too. She donated 50 bottles of water to the youth group at our church on Saturday and all the kids consumed it like it was soda.

Now that the water is no longer on sale, the thrill is gone. What will Tri do? What will I do? The first thing I will do is hide my remaining bottles before my kids get to them. Gotta go. See you in the stores.

Did you get the water? How many bottles did you purchase? Isn't this so much fun?

Sunday, August 19, 2007

It's Your turn to brag!

I don't want to brag all by myself. Leave me a comment and tell me about your savings. Let's talk about it.

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Thursday, August 16, 2007

My grocery savings experience - You must not know bout me

Do you think a mother of two that runs a non-profit, is the PR for her church, a wife whose husband owns his own business and who has her own radio show has time to wash dishes?

Of course not. So thankfully my sister, Lynette was kind enough to give me a heads up on the sale of my favorite invention which is PAPER PLATES. She knows I am so busythat I live and die by the good old paper products.

I dread spending 2.19 for 50 plates that will literally go into the trash. So what did I do? I went to the store and purchased 2 packages of Hefty plates for .37 cents. The cashier Jenny was a newby and she was so proud of her new position. She was every bit of 4 feet 11 and she looked at me this 5'7 savings queen and with all of her new found wisdom she proudly said : YOU CAN ONLY USE ONE COUPON PER ORDER".

Keep in mind, it was 104 degrees outside and the heat was on. I was thinking to myself Lord have mercy.... she must not know bout me. So I put my 2 packages of plates on the counter and separated my 4 orders because I knew I wasn't coming back out to the store to do this transaction again. She looked at me and said " I can't do this" I can't use more than one coupon per ORDER. I asked, why no?t... and in my mind I was thinking this is only a test.... it will be over soon and she said "In my training class they told us we can't accept more than one coupon because there are some people whose grocery bill is like $ 300 but after coupons it is $80" and I looked, smiled and responded with these words " And what is the problem with that?"

As you know, I thought she was talking about me but when she said they only spend $80 I was thinking well, that's not the Sisters of Savings because our numbers are much better than that. So I kindly asked for a manager and I told the cashier go ahead and continue to ring me up until she gets over here. Needless to say, the new cashier didn't know what she was talking about. After the manager explained the policy to her she looked so confused and I felt so sorry for her.

So the morale of the story is to keep your cool even if the temparture is 104 degrees. Smile at the cashier (even though they don't know their policies and walk away with money that you don't have to spend because you are a smart educated Sister of Savings)
Total monies Ms. Jenny wanted me to spend $ 18.97 total money I really spent spent $ 3.00( because I knew better)

My name is Cheryl Jackson and I am a Sister of Savings.

Wednesday, August 15, 2007

9 days later, what's in a name?

It's been a long week. I have been wrestling with the internet company to get our name back. Someone had hijacked the Sisters of savings website and my first thoughts was to let it go. I immediately bought sistersofsavings. org and said we will just forward the site there however something inside of me wouldn't let this go.

SOMEONE HAD TOOK MY NAME. So what's in a name? I never really thought about it until now, but nine days later or 12,960 minutes later I knew what my name meant and there were people all around me and my Sister that reminded us of who we are.

We are the Sisters of Savings. We don't give up or mess up but we stand up for what is true and our integrity means alot. Let me thank all of the family that rallied behind us to support our fight.

As I sat in bed last night I kept wondering why would anyone want our name but when I woke up this morning the answer was really clear. Our name symbolizes savings. But not just saving money, but saving families from hunger, saving people from being lonely (there are some awesome friendship that have developed on our board and most of all saving)

I am completely exhausted, the fight has worn me out but WE WON and tomorrow I promise I will begin to blog daily about what is happening in our world and I can't wait to see what will happening next.
What does the Sisters of Savings mean to you.
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