Erin Chase

I'm not lying.

I'm not exaggerating.

It's beautiful.

So, you know, the gas prices are rising.

My husband's a teacher with a long commute and we really needed to do something and I wasn't working at the time.

So I decided to take it.

I took it upon myself to spend less of his hard-earned money, right?

And so the only area in our personal budget that we could reduce was the grocery store.

We had no cable.

We've never had cable in our married life.

We

Our mortgage was at the lowest finance rate it could have been at that time, and it didn't make sense to refinance and get it at a better rate.

So, you know, really the only thing left that I really could control was the grocery store.

He was a teacher.

Yeah, and we've always been very smart with our finance and all that, but with the gas prices jumping up and his long commute, it was like, okay, we have to cut somewhere else in order to keep saving and all that.

So I took it upon myself to spend less money on groceries, and I just got so excited about it, how much it was helping me.

I knew it would help other people, so I couldn't not share it.

So I was sharing it on my personal blog, which is now defunct.

It's not, yeah.

And my sister kept saying, I don't care what you're making for dinner.