COSTELLO: We're back with Stephanie Elam. Stephanie, it's never fun to save money, I don't care who you are. But how do you change that mindset? How do you make saving money fun?</s>ELAM: Yes, right, exactly. Like, whoo, here we go, we're going to make this a whole bunch of fun. Well, for a lot of people out there, if you're tempted to spend, start by being frugal or a frugalista, that's what author Natalie McNeal calls it. She actually paid off $20,000 in debt in a little over two years. And she says avoid spending traps, so she says get tech savvy. If you have an iPhone or android download free apps like ShopSavvy, which snaps a picture of the product barcode and searches for the best deal at 20,000 local and online retailers. Also, you can look for coupon saving apps like Coupon Sherpa for the iPhone which finds in-store coupons and allows you to e-mail coupons to your friends. Also, she points out that you can bring the frugal fun home. Have happy hour at home with your friends before you go out and have friends bring a battle of wine that costs $10 or less. Or cook using all those seemingly random ingredients in your fridge. McNeal recommends the website supercook.com, get this, where you put in the ingredients in your home, whatever you got there, and it finds recipes to work with what you've got. So the idea here, waste not, want not, Carol, and resolve to stay at it and save some money.</s>COSTELLO: All I have in my refrigerate is a tub of yogurt, that's it.</s>ELAM: And maybe mustard, something really random.</s>COSTELLO: OK, I'll go to that website and see what they say. Thank you very much, Stephanie Elam.
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