Savings Alert: Extreme Couponing Comes to Essex County

Cindy Livesey of Livingston saves more than $11,000 annually and shares a few secrets.

'Tis the season when holiday bills arrive, and resolutions to save money are tested. Cindy Livesey sympathizes. Livesey, an 18-year Livingston resident, believes in budgets, coupons and the occasional splurge. Thus, when she began blogging about saving in 2009, she titled her site Living Rich with Coupons. Livesey saved more than $11,000 last year, while "living rich," buying what she needed, eating out, following her beloved Yankees and indulging her passion for gardening. And she shares her strategies daily and, now, nationally, appearing on Lifetime Television's The Balancing Act. Livesey began saving aggressively about two years ago. She and her husband were taking a hard look at their budget, which includes college tuition. "It got to…

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