‘She’s a wealth of knowledge’: Nova Scotia ‘Coupon Nannie’ offsets inflation
Global News
A grandmother of five, the self-styled "Coupon Nannie" is grateful she's reaching a wider audience by the day as inflation pumps up prices at the grocery store.
A Nova Scotia woman who provides advice to shoppers using the online persona “Coupon Nannie” says sky-high inflation is making her more popular than ever.
Dana Calder says the number of people following her on Facebook has doubled to more than 13,000 since the COVID-19 pandemic and record increases in inflation made paying the bills extremely difficult for many Canadians.
“These are great coupons. As you can see, they’re for a wide variety of products,” said Calder, as she showed Global News a pile of traditional glossy coupons. Calder started couponing for herself and her children, a few years ago, before perfecting the craft.
She points to a recent grocery bill. “We only spent $51. We saved $200.71,” Calder said. “So, literally, we saved four times what we spent.”
A grandmother of five, the self-styled “Coupon Nannie” is grateful she’s reaching a wider audience by the day.
“They’re starting to realize that by using coupons and cashback options, that brings prices down 10, 20, 30, 40 dollars per grocery trip,” Calder said.
While the latest inflation figures released this week showed price growth slowed overall in August, costs at the grocery store were meanwhile up 10.8 per cent year-over-year, a 41-year high.
Yuni Olszewski, who calls herself a stay-at-home mother, says following the Coupon Nannie has eased the financial pressures of raising her two-year-old son, Beau, in Calgary.
