Tactical Attack of the Bargain Hunters!

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I was watching a show the other day and it was all about tips on how to save money on everything, not only in these trying times but all of the time. There was a couple on the show that had been married a little over twenty years and had three children. They claim that in all of that time they had Never paid full price for Anything. Not clothes, food, cars or even the houses they had bought! Anyway, they were showing on video a couple of their shopping trips. One to a second hand store to clothes shop for the family and one to the grocery store. The one to the grocery store is the one that amazed me the most! Obviously they were coupon clippers so each of them had a handful of coupons, they only shop once a month for the entire family, (their children are all teen agers), and of course they buy in bulk and freeze most of the perishables that they buy for the month. This in itself seems very logical to me, and I was with them up Until they walked into the grocery store! They got two shopping carts, "his" and "hers" of course and then the woman did something I had never seen done before. She calmly opened her purse and produced two walkie talkies, "his" and "hers" of course!!! I could Not believe it! THIS is where the "tactical attack" came in! He went in one direction and she in another and as she told the story they are Never out of contact with each other! So when she sees something like ground beef on sale for instance, she walkie talkies to him and he has to run around the store to find out all of the different prices for, (tomato sauce, mushrooms, onions, bell peppers...FOR INSTANCE), so she can tally it up and see how much it would cost her in total to make spaghetti for the family This Month!!! Of course, like I said, spaghetti was just a for instance but this is the way that they do All of their grocery shopping, every month and have been doing it this way for over 20 years!! Now I am All for a bargain and I go for them just as much as the next person, but there is no way in the World that I can see Myself and Hubby running around our local grocery store for a few hours trying to pick up bargains via walkie talkies!! First of all Hubby would Never do it, he almost had a heart attack from laughing when he saw the couple on the television show, and If I found myself walkie talking to him, he would probably have slipped Out of the grocery store and taking a nice 2 or 3 hour nap in the car...Or be sitting next door in the bar spending all of the money that I had just saved on groceries while waiting for me!! Now I must admit, walkie talkies have their place, like when you are trying to keep track of someone, but as a "tactical attack" in the grocery store??? How about you? Would You do Your shopping via walkie talkie "tactical attack" to your partner/friend etc.? By the way, for the sake of argument, I am Not putting these people down for the way that they save money, I think to each their own and if it works for them then my hats off to them and anyone else that uses this method, I am only saying I found it a bit strange as I had never seen it done before and I just know it would not be the way for me.