Sam Fatzinger prowls the aisles of an Aldi grocery store with an engineer’s precision. Workers greet her, mostly by name. She puts several trays of chicken into a huge cart.
Then it’s on to fresh blueberries for $1.79 a pint, in February. And she recalls the time the no-frills store had a sale on potatoes: 10 pounds for 99 cents. She bought 60 pounds. Her husband loves them.
To get these best buys, “it’s just watching and waiting and knowing,” Sam says.“Every cent counts.”
At the cashier, her groceries fill every inch of the conveyor belt. My silent guess: $250 in all. The bill: $127, half of my estimate. Very impressive.
But not
as impressive as this: Rob and Sam Fatzinger, lifelong residents of Bowie, Md., lead a single-income family in one of the country’s most expensive regions.
Rob’s income never topped $50,000 until he was 40; he’s now 51 and earns just north of $100,000 as a software tester...
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