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Old 08-21-2010, 04:25 PM
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Video - Breaking News Videos from CNN.com

That's just crazy but apparently he did it for 100 days straight
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Old 08-21-2010, 04:44 PM
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THAT IS JEFFREY! Our Jeffrey, the guy whose site you are posting on lol
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What???????? Who??
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Thank you for posting this! I saw I had missed it and was very upset! Jeffrey owns this site. He is our administrator!
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That was great!
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Nice!
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amazing!! just gotta stay with it
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Awesome! I didn't get a chance to record it. I'm so glad they put it on their website. Jeffrey, you did fantastic!
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Heheh, yeah, he's been quite the internet celebrity on this, but I had no idea he was on CNN! Congrats!
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I bought some foreign chocolate yesterday for 3 dollars.....that's like...3 days worth of food..for Jefferey
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It's actually nice to associate a name with a face after all these years....nice one Jeffrey!
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I read about this on HotCouponWorld.
I don't think I could do this Argh!
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heh - not sure I wanted people here to find this. Not my best, but definitely a good learning experience. It was a fun experiment and actually a lot easier than I thought it would be. Cooking (not getting the food0 was by far the most difficult part since I don't cook.
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cool. how about buy some seeds, grow it, and eat it later, then over the long run you can spend a dollar more or less on average.
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You can do it for 40 cents a day with you go with Ramen and hot sauce and eggs. I did it for a year in college. I ramenissing about the gold old days sometime.
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I got to see the video too and it was nice to put a face with the site. I was wondering tho is there a running post on here that detailed exactly how he did it? I have missed it somewhere and would love to see it. I am also assuming that he must live in a good coupon area. While I live in NC the couponing world there is AMAZING! that is what I miss about there. I don't know how California is. Here we can only double to .50 and only at one or two stores.
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I love it!
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You can do it for 40 cents a day with you go with Ramen and hot sauce and eggs. I did it for a year in college. I ramenissing about the gold old days sometime.
that does not sound very good at all!
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