On Mon, 22 Aug 2016 03:29:05 -0700 (PDT), Cindy Hamilton
> wrote:

>On Sunday, August 21, 2016 at 3:10:23 PM UTC-4, cshenk wrote:
>> wrote in rec.food.cooking:
>>
>> > On Sun, 21 Aug 2016 11:30:10 -0500, "cshenk" > wrote:
>> >
>> > > Ed Pawlowski wrote in rec.food.cooking:
>> > >
>> > >> On 8/21/2016 7:21 AM, Gary wrote:
>> > >> > Cindy Hamilton wrote:
>> > >> > >
>> > >> > > Millions of Americans never look at a newspaper (or the online
>> > >> > > equivalent).
>> > >> >
>> > >> > I still prefer the printed media...real books, not ebooks and
>> > real >> > paper newspapers not online news as the only viewing.
>> > >> >
>> > >> > For 12 years, I needed the newspapers too for ferret poopy
>> > papers. I >> > still subscribe though. I get to work early so I have
>> > some private >> > time. Nice peaceful morning time to look through
>> > the paper. >> >
>> > >>
>> > >> After 50 years I cancelled the paper. The quality had been
>> > slipping >> for a long time but finally reached my limit. In
>> > January, a couple >> more of the good columnists left, the price went
>> > up, and they wanted >> to charge to use their phone app in addition.
>> > >>
>> > >> I'm surviving but they may not. Subscriptions are way down these
>> > >> days.
>> > >
>> > > I still get the paper 4 days a week. It more than pays for itself
>> > > from the coupons.
>> >
>> > The coupons are all available online.
>>
>> Online ones do not double here and cost you ink to print. My 75cent
>> 'whatever' becomes 1.50$ off and I dont have to spend 5cents printing
>> it.
>
>I so rarely find a coupon for anything that I'd buy that it isn't
>worth my time to look.
>
>Cindy Hamilton

The only worthwhile coupons I use are for cat food and cat litter and
I get those via snail mail directly from the manufacturers. All the
other coupons I see are either for new junk food products or for
something I had tried that I wouldn't want again even were it free. I
do use some coupons from the BJs monthy that's snail mailed for being
a member. The bargains I find are from checking a couple of local
store's weekly circular on line... they arrive by email and only takes
me five minutes to scan through for the few items I'd buy.. even most
of their sale items are dreck I'd never buy. It does pay to phone the
companies whose products you use, if only to ask a question about
using a product, once you get on their mailing list decent coupns
arrive periodically; I get coupons for toiletries, cleaning products,
paper goods, and a few others... some even send gifts like ballpoint
pens and wall calendars with nice pictures.