Here’s a fun story for hard times. A woman in St Cloud saves $175 a month in coupons. Not bad.

According to the St Cloud Times, she “finds coupons in newspapers, coupon Web sites, company Web sites. She even buys them on eBay. She says she gets some of the best deals off the auction site.” So that’s one way to afford broadband.

For anyone looking to follow in her footsteps, you can read her blog: Penny Pinching Pixy.

It’s a fun story but also a reminder that there are ways for a household to afford broadband and while cutting coupon might not work for a community, there are other savings that can be realized with broadband on a communitywide level.