America’s Cheapest Mother | Extreme Cheapskates

My kids are total

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, they know we don't waste anything, you eat everyone's food on your plate, you collect every penny you see, good job, I'm Jordan Page and I'm the ultimate cheapskate housewife, you want to sit here, okay? , you can sit. Here, a typical family of five can spend up to $3,000 a month on household needs, but Jordan, a 27-year-old stay-at-home mom in Utah, spends less than half that much. We diluted it big time, one part juice to five parts water. some waffles, it's about not wasting anything and the way to do it is we call it rationing.

I'll give you some cereal. Well, we'll give you 14, so tell me when to stop. Ready and remember that you need to eat them all. Cheerios or next time you'll only get a 12 on a scale of 1 to 10 of being a cheapskate 10 is the highest I'll probably say 11 or 12 hey first are you ready for your two lines of waffles? The waffles are amazing because they have those lines like a rack and so hot only three so you get three lines of waffles and you know that's what you can eat. This is breast milk here and we love it because it's free while they are young and don't eat much.

Freeze as much breast milk as possible so that when you're done, you still have a few months frozen to stretch it further. People often think that some of my methods are a bit

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. Bacon's for Christmas, they think I do. I'm a little crazy, but I don't know if I care because it works. How much should I cut? Jordan has found one of the biggest savings in the bathroom by reducing his family's toilet paper use from 300 rolls a year to just 40. stretching your dollar is making everything count c3 we should make three, okay let's break one out, shall we?

What do you think dad should wear? Jordan always hurts someone for using too much toilet paper, hey let's try it, it's a touchy subject, but she wants to at least try to make that roll go further Oh cool, okay now put that under dad, when I met Jordan , she always found a way to come to an agreement on something shortly after we got married, an opportunity arose for us to build what we thought would be ours forever. Things at home changed with the economy very quickly and suddenly we couldn't qualify for the home loan, but we had already built the house.

Losing the house really triggered, in my opinion, her being

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ly stingy. Today, the Paige family is back on track financially. and their extreme savings measures allowed them to buy a million dollar house, but Jordan didn't spend that much, the original owners bought it for over a million and we got it on a short sale for about four hundred and fifty thousand, so we were fighting and I sold the basement apartment to my parents for half, so we paid 225 for this huge house that we love so much. They live a lifestyle that would make you believe they are much richer than they are.

She has an innate ability to be. able to do that and I've always admired it because I'm willing to do almost anything to save money. She was just wondering if you guys had any food that you weren't using as leftovers, she's not proud, it's like she hears if you're going on vacation, you need to empty your refrigerator, bring it. People are still willing to donate to eat. Hi Chris, how are you doing? Actually I was wondering if you have leftovers or any food that you are not using. I have some lettuce, sometimes I give her eggs and sometimes some things from our garden, but I know she is very frugal and I know she will probably put it to good use somehow.

Jordan's monthly food bill is only $180 thanks to his creative money-saving solutions. This is what I like to call a final loaf. In our house, we go through a lot of bread and a lot of people don't like to eat pieces of bread, but Bubba he likes it, my kids love it and it's still good so after a while it's worth a whole loaf. Jordans has been trying to find even more ways to be stingy at home, so one of the ways she tried was Dashboard cookies. A neighbor of mine gave us some cookie dough that she was about to expire, it bakes cookies without using energy and it won't heat your house with the car temperature at 160 degrees.

She finished baking for free in two hours and it's this cheap thinking that drove Jorden to her newest and perhaps most extreme dime. pinch plan, but there is a new trend in backyard farming where I think we have a lot of space in the back and we are fenced, no, listen to me, we could raise a pig and then get a ton of pork out of it, you can pay more. From 350 per dozen eggs, you pay ten dollars for one hen, six hens later, you get half a dozen eggs a day. I mean, that's amazing, that's a huge savings.

What would our neighbors think? Our neighbors might think we're crazy, but I think we might. Prove them wrong, we could investigate all these chickens. Jordan spends just three and a half percent of family income on food, two-thirds less than the national average today; he hopes to reduce that figure even further. We are in the market. some farm animals, what do you want to see? Well, can we start with the chickens? The research I have done has shown that you can raise your own animals for a fraction of the cost of buying an organic package of meats or eggs or milk at the supermarket just keep it that way keep it nice and tight, cute, don't let it slip away so how many eggs will be eaten?

Late-fed chicken will lay an egg every 26 hours, oh that's amazing, that's like half a dozen a day. That's a lot of eggs, as soon as the chickens start squawking and making noise, your neighbors will get irritated. There are some girls here, especially with the goats, when they poop on our lawn. She won't like that you milked a goat before we left. through a lot of milk and this goat is going to give us 12 dollars of milk a day, that's amazing, we can't actually have a pig where we live but could we buy one and then raise it here in turn we will collect it whenever? big and fat yeah ready for bacon yeah so this baby would cost $80 so you'd have to pay $30 a month and feed at least the little pig will stay here so we won't have to take care of him for six months the pages are being able to eat bacon every day for a year at hundreds of dollars below store prices and honestly, that amount of bacon, yes, it might be worth it, but we'll see how it goes.

Oh my god, I have no idea what it's going to be like. having goats and chickens in our backyard, hopefully they won't be able to get out, we let them go right here, do that, they love it here, well it looks like the goats are doing this business, it's a great start to having animals in our home Hey, isn't that what we do? We usually have in our yards his swings and pools and things like that, but not the farm animals and the pigs are fine on the farm, he is fine, the feeding shelter costs and the vet bills.

Jordan will reach his savings goal in two months. I would be laying half a dozen eggs a day the goats would save 12 dollars a day for a gallon of milk that would be pretty impressive if we are made to be backyard farmers I don't know, but the numbers add up and there is something to be said for saving that much money