CINCINNATI (AP) -- With her household budget tightening, Michelle Fox treats couponing like getting a part-time job to help make ends meet.In her case, it's a job that pays about $20 an hour.
"Every little bit helps. It's something I do for my family," said the Pueblo, Colo., resident, who helps offset rising costs for her five-person household by spending a few hours each week scouring the Sunday newspapers and Internet sites for opportunities to save quarters and dollars per item.
Fox, whose full-time job is in a telecommunications company call center, has been a couponer for years, enduring the snickers or grumbles from customers waiting in line behind her as she handed over fistfuls of coupons. But that's changing, she said; now people trying to cope with $4-a-gallon gas and higher grocery prices are asking her for tips on finding and using coupons.
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