My syndicated Super-Couponing Tips column for the week is entitled “Do coupons have an income stigma?”
Here’s an excerpt:
“I have read your column awhile and you have said that even affluent people use coupons. I am not sure that I believe that fully. It has been years since I cut a coupon, but I got the newspaper over the weekend and saw there are some higher dollar values than I remember..”
Read this entire column at the Napa Valley Register.
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Kate says
If anything, I would say that coupons mark you as someone who is thoughtful and intelligent, not as someone who of lower class. In my personal experience, it is often the intelligent wealthy (not those who spend lavishly) who use coupons. That is actually how many of them have added to, and maintained, debt-free status and grown wealth.
I have done quite a bit of volunteer work among the more needy in our society. We were initially quite surprised to see much more rash spending on items that are unnecessary (such as expensive TVs, phones, and electronic games) and little thought toward attempting to make purchases wisely. Many use government funding to cover their basic necessities of housing and food. Whatever cash income they make is often used as quickly as it is earned and is spent on their immediate desires that are within reach. There is no motivation or thought toward saving or getting the best possible deal.