6 reasons to ignore extreme couponing

oh, and as far as anyone being behind someone with a huge binder who is giving the cashier tons of coupons so that they can save money for their family.....you don't have to stay behind that person.  Simply just go to another register rather than stay behind that person, then complain for days on end about it!  Like I stated in my other post, some people have no need financially to coupon and that's well and good - but more people than not have been affected by our economy especially in recent years....and if this is one way that they can truly save money, especially with rising food cost, then more power to them.  I wish we were either wealthier so as feeding  7 people - 5 of which are growing boys - didn't hit our wallets so bad or poorer so that we could qualify for food stamps like so many people are on today...but like so many, we are in that in between bracket - the middle income folks and we have a large family.  Just remember wh?en you are behind someone using a lot of coupons - you don't know that person's circumstances or how many people that person may be responsible for feeding, so try to be a little patient.  It won't  take forever for the coupons to be applied and then its over and done with.  Couponing has indeed increased as so many families now experience unemployment, losing their homes, downsizing, decrease in wages or income, sickness in the family of one of the bread winners....there are so very many reasons out there for so many people that have had to turn to couponing, so please don't be knocking it or the people who are couponing!  And like I said, if you do get behind someone with one of those big binders or that is otherwise going to be using a lot of coupons....just go to another register - that's pretty simple isn't it?  And as far as the whole frugality/saving money comment that Ms Johnson so callously made - duh - these people ARE saving money by couponing, and the fact of the matter is that it is THEIR choice and THEIR right to do so without the needs of being criticized for it by this Ms Johnson.  Live and let live.  Of course, there are some people out there, obviously, who are going to complain and criticize about any given thing because it is their nature, and they obviously do not have the insight to see or understand that this does indeed save people money in a time where the economy is at its worst and prices are soaring!  Attack the companies that are constantly raising the cost of food and living, not the people who are just trying to survive and better feed their children!!  If you don't choose to coupon, that's you.  But don't knock the people who do!  My goodness, it is ONLY couponing!!!  Not robbing a bank or something!! lol

Couponing to save money is one thing.....I use my fair share of coupons, clearing the shelves is something different. Couponers that clear shelves so no one can get the deals are the ones that get me. Oh and the ones that call corp and complain just because a store limits their items....Store policy is store policy...getting 2 items instead of 20 is no reason to call corporate and try to effect someone elses livelihood.

I share the sentiments but there was one thing missing:  I can sure use the discount or freebie but I do like for the people I do business with to make a fair profit.  Getting something for nothing means someone else got nothing for something.  We do what we can to make ends meet but Ayn Rand was not right.  Greed is not good.