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The Coupon Queen
When I was a little girl I loved playing paper dolls. Do little girls still do that? It took lots of time and concentration to cut the doll out just right. (Fingers and toes where so easy to snip through). And then the clothes, pages and pages of clothes with those paper tabs that held the outfit in place.
Do you know what happens to these little girls when they grow up and get married? They turn into Coupon Queens, trading paper bike shorts and evening gowns for fifty-cent discounts on a bottle of mayonnaise or a dollar fifty savings on a case of diapers.
With the recession hitting so many of us below the belt, coupon clipping has become all the rage. Here in my county, the local newspaper has embraced this fad by hiring a coupon clipping expert to help guide her readers through the always confusing, but sometimes profitable world of cut out money. She instructs her readers to purchase binders and fill them with plastic sheets used to organize trading cards. Each individual section can hold a different coupon. It's not an unusual sight, on a Saturday morning, to see a focused shopper with a binder full of coupons open in her cart and more coupons fanned out in her hand analyzing the volume of a box of cereal to make sure the product and the coupons match.
Never one to be left out of a current craze, I decided to jump into the coupon madness with both feet. I signed up to receive FIVE Sunday papers, each the size of a large chunk of fire wood. The purpose of FIVE Sunday papers is, of course, to have five times the coupons to choose from, but there are other benefits as well – everyone in the family gets their own copy of the comics, and there's even an extra to leave in the bathroom for those who need entertainment while using the facilities.
Once the papers have arrived, are hauled into the house and dumped on the kitchen table, the real fun beginnings. Among the colored ads for popular clothing, hardware and office supply stores, are hidden the real treasures; the coupon booklets - one, two and sometimes three different ones. It's better than an Easter egg hunt.
Once the coveted booklets are found, we get to scan through them, searching for prizes beyond our wildest imagination. A dollar off that bathroom cleaner with the tiny bubbles that clean your toilet while singing Just A Spoon Full of Sugar . Before your very eyes, these tough soapy wonders make even the grossest of stains just disappear.
"Can we really get it?" ask my children in wide eyed wonderment?
Normally, I stick with the bargain brand of toilet cleaner myself. It doesn't actually clean, but it makes the water so blue; you don't even notice that the bowl is still dirty. But with a dollar off coupon…the sky is the limit.
There are other coupons as well. All kinds of shampoos in every color, scent and bottle size are just waiting to be purchased at forty cents off when you buy two. Frozen foods you wouldn't give a second glance normally are suddenly irresistible when you can buy one and get a bag of frozen french fries free.
And the dog food… You know, I have a hard enough time coming up with meals that my kids like beyond the basic Mac and Cheese and Hot Dogs in a bun. Why would I worry about variety in my dogs meals? But there must be people out there who thrive on purchasing little cans of gourmet meat chunks , seasoned with oregano in a red whine sauce…(whine – dogs – get it?.... but I digress).
So after a lengthy conversation with my family, the coupons we want are chosen and the cutting begins. Hours of cutting, piles of newsprint tossed into the garbage and the painstaking process of finding just the right place in my binder for each coupon. Do cookies go in Breads and Grains or Misc? And if I have a category called Junk Food, can I ever save enough money on it, to make the purchase worthwhile? These are the philosophical questions I face each week. It's no wonder I never have time to actually read any of the FIVE Sunday papers.
But at last, the coupons are filed away and the newspapers are in the recycle bin (the least I can do after killing all those trees to save a few cents on the yogurt that comes in a rainbow of colors and can be used as finger paint). Then the real work begins.
Sure you can save forty cents on a bag of hamburger buns, but the big money comes when you combine your coupon with a sale!!! This is where the true coupon queens really shine. Say you received an ad from a grocery store that is selling its Marshmallow and Chocolate Sugar Crispi Cereal for $1.50 a box, a 50% savings off of retail. Then you add your forty cent coupon on top of that. Well I don't have to spell it out for you. Big BIG savings!
(Disclaimer…Savings does not take into account the cost of the dental bill incurred from your children eating too many bowls of Marshmallow and Chocolate Sugar Crispi Cereal.)
You may be laughing out there, but truthfully, this stuff is addicting. (Not the sugary cereal…the coupon clipping.) I actually embarrassed the life out of my teenage son by picking up coupons that someone had dropped in the grocery store parking lot, and yelling "Eureka, I struck Gold!"
Granted it's not always feasible to use coupons, and sometimes, no matter what, the bargain brand is just a better deal. But other times, despite all the craziness involved, coupons can actually save you money.
My son got tired of his electric razor and wanted a closer shave so he decided to buy regular straight edge.
"Don't go yet," I called to him as he headed out to his car, "I think I have a coupon for that."
Sure enough, I did; four dollars off in fact.
An hour later he called me from his cell phone. "So the razor was normally ten ninety-nine and the store had it market down to six. After the four dollar coupon I only paid two bucks. Is that great or what?"
I could only smile. My son's a coupon queen.
About the Author
Deanne Blackhurst has been freelance writing for over twenty-five years. The mother of six, she balances a full time writing career with the demands of her family. Deanne is the author of one published softcover novel Turning Hearts and one eBook Sleight of Hand. She writes a weekly blog on the humorous side of working from home
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