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MANATEE--”Black Friday“ sounds ominous, but it’s a good thing if you own a store. The biggest shopping day of the year is the day after Thanksgiving and the busiest online shopping day is the Monday after the holiday weekend i.e. ”Cyber Monday“. Jill Cataldo better known as the ”Super Coupon Queen“ has made a living researching the best deals using coupons and provides some tips in the attached interview.

Jill Cataldo became a serious coupon user in September 2006 when she and her husband found out they were going to have another baby. Jill started using the internet to track store sales and learned the best time to use coupons from the newspaper and internet to save even more money with those sales.

Jill Cataldo had been a "typical" coupon user that would look at coupons each week, cut out the ones she thought she'd use and then throw the rest away. That turned out to be a bad idea. Jill discovered that grocery stores have a 12-week cycle in which everything in the store is at its lowest price point. When that happens, that's the best time to buy that item for an even bigger discount using the coupons and store discounts that are available.

Ms. Cataldo has saved thousands of dollars on groceries over the years. She has turned that individual success into a profession that includes regular segments on national radio and television shows, a syndicated newspaper column and website.