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Happening Now with America's Cheapest Family MavinOfSavin 967 views Jon Stewart and Jenna Lee talk with America's Cheapest Family, Steve & Annette Economides about their lifestyle. Including How we started out making $6.50 per hour. Eating...
Clothing Challenge - Today Show with America's Cheapest Family, the Economides MavinOfSavin 1,631 views Today Show Host Matt Lauer issues a challenge to America's Cheapest Family. $50 each - buy one fancy, dress-up outfit and one casual outfit. Can the Economides family do it...
Pap's Dungeon on CBS in Phoenix MavinOfSavin 1,228 views John Kanter was awarded $500 from CBS Channel 5 through their Pay it Forward Campaign in Phoenix Arizona. He was commended for his selfless service to the community in trai...
America's Cheapest Family Answers Your Grocery Questions - Today Show 10.1.10 MavinOfSavin 2,374 views Today Show host Natalie Morales connects America's Cheapest Family with viewers questions. You'll hear how to cook smarter by doubling up, cooking in large batches, involvi...
Today Show America's Cheapest Family — Cut Your Grocery Bill in Half - helping the Reeves Family MavinOfSavin 1,773 views Steve & Annette Economides help Lisa Reeves hone her shopping skills. She's doing pretty good by buying store brands and cooking at home, but her shopping list is pitiful a...
Today Show with America's Cheapest Family - How to cut your grocery bill in half MavinOfSavin 2,151 views Do you need to clip piles of coupons to slash your grocery bill in half? No, says America's Cheapest Family. By planning better, shopping smarter and cooking at home you ca...
The Kerri-Anne Show—America's Cheapest Family Shares the Power of the Plan MavinOfSavin 1,670 views The Kerri-Anne Show is one of Australia's favorite morning talk shows. Steve & Annette Economides authors of Cut Your Grocery Bill in Half with America's Cheapest Family sh...
America's Cheapest Family— The Talk — Save on produce, prepared foods, lunch meat and more MavinOfSavin 3,654 views Steve & Annette Economides are interviewed on The Talk by Julie Chen and Holly Robinson Peete and ask how they can save on prepared foods, produce, lunch meat and snacks fo...
America's Cheapest Family — Fox & Friends — 5 Ways Cut Your Grocery Bill In Half MavinOfSavin 1,183 views Steve & Annette Economides author's of America's Cheapest Family books, share 5 ways to reduce your grocery bill. 1) Spend less time shopping 2) Avoid Impulse Buys 3) Cut ...
Saving For The Holidays with America's Cheapest Family MavinOfSavin 1,302 views Learn how to free up cash to pay for a happy holiday season with Steve and Annette Economides—America's Cheapest Family. We talk about the value of a gift budget worksheet,...

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Being in debt really stinks. We will show you lots of ideas for saving boodles of bucks. Saving money can be fun and frugality can be freeing.

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Steve and Annette Economides (Econo mee dis) have raised five kids, paid off their first home in 9 years on an average income of just $35,000, pay cash for their cars and don't use a credit card . . . ever. The have cashed in on the American dream in a very un-American way — with no debt. Here's how they got their start.

Annette Economides spent 21 years as a stay at home mom until she joined Steve writing and publishing the HomeEconomiser Newsletter in 2003.

At ten-years old, driven by an innate desire to earn money, she found several of her siblings' unused toys laying around the house. Seizing the opportunity, she promptly set up a trading-post in the front yard. Neighbors from blocks around picked up many bargains that day and Annette pocketed most of the money. That was until her older brother came to see if he could purchase a bargain priced item only to find one of his toys there for sale. He sounded the alarm and the trading post was promptly closed.

As a teen-ager Annette shunned anything having to do with cooking or housework. Her favorite hang-out was the mall and her favorite past time was shopping for clothes. The full extent of her domestic aptitude was the ability to boil water and scramble eggs. Little did she know that her latent frugal abilities and aptitude for culinary excellence would later come to aid her as a "domestic goddess."

Steve Economides spent twenty-three years in the graphics and advertising industry in Phoenix, Arizona. He's enjoying spending time being a dad while writing and working from home.

Steve wasn't always financially disciplined, but is a living testimony that right brained creative types can learn to manage money. In 1981, the week before he was to leave on a motorcycle trip, he received an unanticipated motorcycle insurance bill. He drained his bank account to pay the bill and with just enough money left for gas and food left on his trip. A few days later, while driving through the Colorado mountains during a stormy downpour he slid off a rain slickened road. The motorcycle was laid down and flipped while he and his backpack were thrown clear. Miraculously, he sailed off the motorcycle, did a diving somersault between several trees and rolled down a soft embankment. Though a little bent-up, the motorcycle was still drivable, so he completed his vacation. Of course when he returned home, he did what any man would do after surviving a near-death experience—he proposed marriage to Annette.

Steve and Annette live in Scottsdale, Arizona with four kids at home—one lives on his own. They publish the HomeEconomiser Newsletter, and together authored the New York Times Best Seller, America's Cheapest Family Gets You Right On The Money. They also have been profiled on TV and radio and in newspapers and magazines worldwide. They are seasoned seminar speakers and travel with their kids, as America's Cheapest Family, working to convince the world that a frugal lifestyle can not only get you right on the money, but also help you cash in on your dreams!

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