You know you are an extreme couponer when you refuse to pay $0.25 for a tube of toothpaste....
Every so often Arvid comes up with a "plan" or an "idea" that he thinks is so awesome we ought to live by it. Not so long ago we saw on the news a report about a young girl who by using coupons saved over $3000. in grocery bills for her family over a period of a couple of months.
Every so often Arvid comes up with a "plan" or an "idea" that he thinks is so awesome we ought to live by it. Not so long ago we saw on the news a report about a young girl who by using coupons saved over $3000. in grocery bills for her family over a period of a couple of months.
Every week we get the sales coupons from all the stores. Today for some reason, Arvid decided to look at one of them. It so happens he was looking at the one for the grocery store. From the way he was carrying on you would think that something extraordinary was on those sale papers.
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| checking out the Macy's AD... |
Suddenly he started telling me that so and so was on sale and that if we bought it we could really save quite a bit. I just looked at him and said, but we don't eat that stuff. He looked a little disappointed, but continued vigorously sorting through the sales trying desperately to find something for us to buy.
He literally sat down for about 30 minutes sorting through the sales hating to admit that there was almost nothing that we would use. Finally he came across Pepsi on sale. If you saw the big grin on his face one would thing he just found gold. Needless to say we went to the store and stocked up on quite a bit of Pepsi. Now we have enough to last for months.
I have nothing against cutting coupons. I think it's great to save any way we can. The only thing is I don't believe in buying stuff just because they are on sale and things I know we would never use. On the other hand......if Macy's had a sale I would gladly go and have Arvid buy me a few thing I really don't need, but which I really want....Tomorrow sounds good. Just remember the best things in life are never rationed. Friendship, loyalty, love, do not require coupons...
I try to do the right thing with money. Save a dollar here and there, clip some coupons. Buy ten gold chains instead of 20. Four summer homes instead of eight, I'm trying...
until next time...
