Welcome to Obsessive Coupon Disorder!  Our team is made up of several very creative and talented Michigan women – Stephanie, Monica and Lisa.

Meet Stephanie.

Steph as we like to call her, is first and foremost a wife and mother. She’s been married 18 years to Brian (founder of www. ocdsavings club.com) and together they have two children – well, two teenagers, is more accurate. Both teens, ages 13 and 16, are national dance champions. Since their toddlerhood, Steph has dedicated thousands of hours toward driving her girls to and from dance practices five nights per week, costume making, set designing and building, traveling to competitions all over the country, maintenance at the dance studio, dance studio photography, working on dance promos and recital programs, behind-the-scenes and backstage assistance, security at competitive events and ticket selling. There really isn’t an aspect of dance she hasn’t tackled – other than putting on a tutu herself and teaching the class. There’s a piece of framed art in her office featuring a ballerina with this quote, “Dancing is like dreaming with your feet.”

Steph is retired from the corporate world.  The company she worked for downsized and eventually relocated to Minnesota, leaving her jobless.  It seemed like a relief in many ways. Her new freedom as a stay-at-home-mom allowed her to focus more on her family, husband, children, household, and of course, dance.

Her interests include photography, sewing, Italy and Italian life and culture, baking, cooking, canning, gardening, herb-growing, scrapbooking, camping and her two dogs – Brodie and Katie.

After realizing unemployment checks didn’t pay the bills, she paved a new direction for herself. With guts and determination she teamed up with her friend Monica (also unemployed from the same company) to forge a partnership that would help launch an online coupon savings club. Steph and Monica give instructional classes at hotel conference centers to people with one common goal – “I want to save money!” To date, the pair of moms have taught their OCD Savings Club methods to more than 2,300 people and they are still going strong.

Now meet Monica.

She’s been married to Ron for 12 years. Monica also is a stay-at-home-mom raising a 16-year old son and a 10-year old daughter.  While most moms inquire, “Is your homework done?” Monica actually joins her kids during homework time. She’s got a full load of classes since she is in the process of completing her nursing degree. (That corporate lay-off she experienced persuaded her to return to her dream of becoming a nurse.)

Without a lot of free time, Monica manages to juggle her role as a wife, mother, student and active contributor to OCD Savings Club. She enjoys camping, NASCAR races, Friday night football games, scrapbooking, reading and volunteering at her church.

And last but not least, meet Lisa.

Lisa has been married to Kevin for 20 years and is raising a 16-year old son and a 12-year old daughter. She joins the ranks in being a stay-at-home-mom but also dabbles in part-time (like writing for this blog!) work such as freelance writing for a newspaper and working with her church youth group.

Her interests include writing, poetry (reading or writing it), reading books, discovering new authors, book stores (especially used book stores), any Great Lakes beach, camping, working out at the local Y, going to concerts,  period-piece or historical movies, volunteering (she doesn’t know how to say no!) and her most favorite thing — tucking her kids into bed at night!

Between Steph, Monica and Lisa the trio is involved (or their kids are) in dance (ballet, tap, jazz and gymnastics), cheerleading, football, soccer, softball, volleyball, basketball, power lifting, bowling, Sunday school, catechism classes, altar-serving, music lessons and youth groups.

These three women also serve as a support to one another during a health, parenting, marital,  school, homework, meal-planning, financial or any other crisis.  Bad hair-days and days of feeling stressed, tired or overwhelmed don’t seem as difficult when they’re shared among friends. Car-pooling, chore-trading and caring for the kids are easily swapped among the three moms.  But, by far, the greatest gift shared is the gift of faith. Having friends who are believers in Christ make all the difference in the world.  A few of our favorite Scripture verses include:

• “With God all things are possible.” Genesis 18:13
• “This too shall pass.”  1 Corinthians 10:12
• “Commit to the Lord whatever you do and your plans will succeed.”  Proverbs 16:3

Our hope is that your experience here is one of learning, savings, and enjoyment. In addition we would be “pleased as punch” to gain new friendships in the blog world and be inspired by what you have to share with us.

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