A few days ago I went grocery shopping and when I returned home, I threw the receipt and attached coupons on my desk. Today I decided to feed my paper shredding addiction and get rid of these useless pieces of paper. For the most part I consider the coupons that print out with your receipt pretty useless, because they are generally for the same type of item you purchased, but a different brand.

Now, for the more frugal shopper, this is probably a great opportunity to save .30 cents. However, I am not a frugal shopper. Money is not my primary object when I shop—what I like is. For instance, let’s say I am buying little frozen pizzas to eat for lunch. I will buy the ones that don’t taste like cardboard—therefore, giving me a coupon for a less edible (to me) brand of pizza is not going to help. I would rather pay more in order to somewhat enjoy my lunch. There is usually a reason behind what brand I buy, so if you’re going to give me a coupon, I would rather it be for the brands in my shopping cart.

That said, I still glanced at the coupons before I was going to resign them to their fate of being shredded into hundreds of tiny pieces. I wasn’t expecting to see anything worthwhile, BUT this time, I DID! Thanks to my favorite frozen pizzas, I got a $3.00 off my next shopping order, and thanks to the impending arrival of summer I got another coupon for $10.00 off my next shopping order. Neither one of these stipulates that you have to buy a certain brand, so how sweet is that??

To think, if I had just assumed that these pieces of paper were worthless, I would be missing out on $13, which is pretty significant savings when you consider how many normal coupons you’d have to bring in, and spend all that time comparison shopping to obtain otherwise. I guess it is true what they say about people who just assume, huh?

Posted at 5:10 PM |