This week’s syndicated Super-Couponing Tips column is entitled “Clearance Etiquette,” and my blog readers will know exactly what this one’s about — Dominick’s stores closing in Chicagoland, and experiences I had shopping those store-end sales. I also received a fair amount of criticism via email for blogging about the store closings. Here’s an excerpt from one of them:
“I find it disappointing that you spent more than two hundred dollars. I have always thought you were about saving money but if you have $200 to spend in one day, you don’t need to save money. I also know you have a stockpile at home and hope you’re giving this to the food pantry. It doesn’t seem right that you buy things you didn’t truly need. Only people in financial straits should have been allowed to shop these sales.”
Read this entire column at NWItimes.com.
My Super-Couponing Tips column appears in newspapers around the country to a weekly readership of over 20 million people!
SouthernReverie says
Jill, I know you’re not the type of person to let comments like that get you down, but it makes me so angry. This society has produced a large number of people who are perpetually offended, and they seem to think it is their duty to scold everyone. It doesn’t matter what you do, these people will find fault with it. Many of these are the very same people who criticize Christians for being judgmental.
The argument that if you have $200 to spend in one day, you don’t need to save money is so laughable. Can he/she not see that the reason you have $200 to spend in one day is because you are careful with your money? That is precisely how you accumulate wealth. Sadly, most people just don’t get it. They will never have two cents to rub together and it will always be somebody else’s fault. And it’s nobody else’s business how big a stockpile you have or what you may be doing with the items you purchase. How does he/she know you didn’t share or donate some or all of those items?
End of rant! :)