Coupons – Social Stigma?
We love coupons in our household. Receipts, brochures and other offers are all carefully checked and if anything grabs our fancy, quickly put in our bags for use when needed.
I’m surprised that more people don’t use coupons and started to wonder if it’s a case of laziness or embarrassment.
I can only speak from my own experience but I know when I was younger and quite silly come to think of it, the thought of using coupons equated to people thinking I had no money or that things were tight financially.
Whether it is age and wisdom or the fact that I love saving money, the social stigma I associated with coupons is no longer relevant.
I wonder how many people feel this way today? Is it possible that with times being tough people are changing their views or is it still an issue?
We save quite a bit of money on a variety of items by going through all the offers that come our way. We figure it is great for us and good for the retailer because we probably would not have visited them without the coupon offer.




June 4th, 2009 at 5:50 pm
I think there are some people out there who do not like using coupons because they find it embarrassing.
It’s silly thinking but their loss!