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I’ve been getting lots of emails about this new article from Yahoo on 8 Reasons You Shouldn’t Use Coupons.
I thought about writing out why I believe this is not true, but I thought you would do a better job! So I want to know, why do you use coupons?
Here are the 8 reasons the article says you shouldn’t use coupons:
- You have to buy a newspaper.
- Clipping coupons takes time.
- Getting a newspaper invites lots of additional advertising into your home.
- Many of the coupons will be for things you neither need nor want.
- Coupons can tempt you to spend your grocery dollars on things you shouldn’t.
- The same coupons tend to be offered over and over again.
- You might become a slave to coupons.
- Shopping takes longer.
Here’s what I’m thinking. Let’s start a discussion in the new BlogFrog Community. Let me know what you think. Do you or do you not use coupons and why!
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1. Find someone who already buys the paper, but doesn’t want the coupons; maybe even offer to pay half; both save
2. It is a very wise use of my time. I consider it part of my 40+ hour/week that I put in as a SAHM
3.Only read the part of the newspaper you want; for me that is almost nothing. I get the paper for the coupons/ads.
4. Somebody may need/want the coupons you don’t use. I use a lot of them and share many others.
5.Couponing requires discipline, which is sometimes is a “learn as you go” experience.
6. Same coupon is used to restock what I ran out of. I will take what I am offered, and use the savings on the things I don’t have coupons for.
7. For me, it is an addiction :), but I would rather have an addiction to saving money than spending money that I do not have. Slavery is a strong word with a negative connotation.
8. YES, it takes a long time. It’s my time with my sister or some “me” time. And it is very rewarding to walk out of there having used wisely the money my husband works so hard for. It’s the least I can do.
I know this is a little lengthy. And, no, I am not bitter or disgruntled. We need people who don’t use coupons. They keep the store in business, when I get the stuff for free with my coupons. :)
This article is clearly written from a position of social privilege — “many times, it would be worth it to spend the extra $1.50 rather than pine for ice cream and cast longing glances at your freezer every night for three weeks until your next coupon arrives” — PLEASE! Grow up! If it’s that important, I think all of us would go ahead and buy it — but for most of us, we stocked up the last time the ice cream was $2.50, so there’s no need to fret.
First she argues for only buying healthy foods (apples) which don’t have coupons (though, of course, there are lots of healthy foods for which there ARE coupons), THEN she argues that you can’t get the ice cream you want for a snack. Obviously, both arguments can’t hold up simultaneously.
This article is poorly written and contains NO credible outside sources. If one of my students turned it in for a grade, I would consider it subpar — even for high school level writing.