"Brooklyn1" <Gravesend1> wrote in message
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> On Thu, 7 Apr 2011 15:30:42 -0400, "Nancy Young"
> > wrote:
>
>>projectile vomit chick wrote:
>>> On Apr 7, 8:26 am, "Nancy Young" > wrote:
>>
>>>> I never get how they can take so much off their bill, either. Yes,
>>>> double coupons are nice but they rarely wind up with getting a
>>>> product for free for me.
>>>
>>> If you notice a lot of them were paying for a couponing service, on
>>> top of all of the scavenging for coupons and carrying on for
>>> 478374237320239 hours a week. Ugh, could you imagine?
>>
>>You're right, I forgot about paying for coupons. Yikes. Lately
>>I've been doing that Troopon thing where you cut out coupons
>>that military families can use. Once a month or so, I organize them
>>and mail them out.
>>
>>I'm not complaining, but cutting out and organizing all those wisps
>>of paper is kind of a hassle. And these people have books and
>>books of them.
>
> Those people that spend all those hours collecting and sorting
> obviously don't have a life. I rarely use coupons because like 99% of
> them are for things I not only wouldn't use but wouldn't want them if
> free... they're typically for some new over priced product that has no
> redeeming value. About the only coupons I actually use are those I
> get in the mail for pet products and they are for no big savings but
> I'll still take 50¢ off on a $12 box of cat food. The only other
> coupons I use are occasionally there'll be a stack of coupons on the
> deli counter for $1 off a particular cold cut if you buy a pound, I'll
> use those too, only because I'm buying the product anyway and I never
> buy less than a pound of anything at the deli. I can't remember the
> last time I actually snipped out a coupon, has to be at least 20 years
> ago... I think that's about how long ago they stopped offering coupons
> to snip for useful items, at least of use to me.

When I did use coupons on a regular basis, I would often get them for new
products. Sometimes the product would even be free. But I found by the
time that product made it to my store, the coupon would have expired!

Another thing that bugged me was the coupons they put out at the military
commissary. You would think if they would have all these coupons for
certain items, they would have the items, right? Well sometimes they did.
But often they did not. I would spend all this time going through the
coupons only to discover they were out of whatever it was.