The Northwest Herald has a story today with tips from me about saving on school supplies and back-to-school shopping: Shoppers can take advantage of sales, rebates, and price-matching policies to save money, said Jill Cataldo, a coupon expert and mother of three from Huntley. “Some people dread back-to-school shopping and don’t want to drag it […]
The Times covers Indiana Home and Garden Show: Super-Couponing one of the biggest draws
The Times has an article about my pair of Super-Couponing workshops this past weekend in Indiana: Thoughts of home improvement and summer gardens were on the minds of the more than 4,000 people who perused Home and Garden Show booths this weekend at the Lake County Fairgrounds… One of the biggest draws was a pair […]
Patch.com feature: ‘Super-Couponer’ Jill Cataldo Shares Savings Ideas
Patch.com has a story about my Yorkville Super-Couponing workshop last night: “Super-Couponing” workshop founder Jill Cataldo began strategizing how to best use coupons when she was pregnant with her third child – and realized she’d have two in diapers at the same time. “Honestly, it was the diapers,” she said. “They’re very expensive.” And, really, […]
Article in this week’s Supermarket News
This week’s issue of Supermarket News, an industry trade publication, features a story about how mothers who blog (including yours truly!) are influencing everything from sales to packaging to pricing changes at the grocery store: Their online discussions of parenting, family and home have created tight-knit, passionate and vocal communities that have the power to […]
Courier-News: Huntley’s Coupon Queen to the Rescue
Thursday’s Courier-News has a story about me, Dominick’s, coupons, and saving. We also went shopping this week to Meijer so that the reporter could see how we do “what we do” — stacking coupons and following sales — to cut over $48 off this week’s grocery bill: She may not be a comic book novel […]
West Suburban Living magazine feature
The new issue of West Suburban Living has a three-page interview with me discussing my Super-Couponing career, shopping tactics and life in the ‘burbs: Couponing — an activity once practiced by a relatively small percentage of frugal shoppers — has become downright trendy. Perhaps that’s not surprising in the current economy, which has made saving […]
Why I’m not featured on TLC’s “Extreme Couponing” special…
Tomorrow night, TLC’s airing a new one-hour special called “Extreme Couponing.” For a few weeks now, I’ve been receiving emails from readers asking if I was going to be a part of it, or what I thought of it. I really wrestled with addressing this topic publicly on the blog, but I’ve decided to share […]
“Ay Mama!” radio appearance
I appeared on ChicagoNow’s “Ay Mama!” radio show on Thursday! Ay Mama! is hosted by Ana Belaval, who’s well-known to Chicago audiences as the host of “Around Town” on WGN News. In addition to her job as reporter, Ana maintains a blog about motherhood, and the radio show is her weekly counterpart to the blog. […]
The media spins couponing again: “8 Reasons Why You Shouldn’t Use Coupons”
Numerous readers wrote today to send me a link to this Investopedia article currently on Yahoo: 8 Reasons Why You Shouldn’t Use Coupons. The only reason I hadn’t responded to this earlier today is that I spent the day in Chicago filming yet another coupon-related segment, which I’ll share with you later. But now that […]
Consumer Reports’ ShopSmart feature
I’m featured in the new issue of Consumer Reports’ ShopSmart magazine! The September 2010 issue has a big section on saving on groceries, and the magazine asked me for department-by-department tips to saving at the supermarket (many of which are things my regular readers already know and put into practice!) ShopSmart is available at Borders, […]
Jill on Nightline Thursday 3/25!
I am scheduled to appear on ABC’s Nightline TONIGHT in a shopping segment! Nightline gave me and another shopper each $50 to see how much we could buy for that amount. If you’ve ever wanted to follow me around the store (and possibly peek inside my pantry!) you’ll get that chance… tune in tonight! :)
Here’s a writeup on the segment at ABC News.