I know it's ridiculous, but I get bummed around holidays throughout the year with no coupons to clip. Coupons inserts don't come out on certain weekends, and what has been coming out the past few weeks hasn't been that great. It also seems like the inserts are getting thinner and there are a lot more ads for weirdly shaped undergarments and elastic-waistband pants. Not that there is anything wrong with either, but dang. I don't want to collect coin sets, I want to clip coupons.
I have a feeling that as marketing budgets get cut, the quantity and quality of coupon inserts like SmartSource and RedPlum will drop. I actually got through a whole insert without seeing a need for a single coupon inside last week. I honestly don't think that's ever happened, even though over the past year I have scaled back the amount of coupons I bother to clip.
I could probably feed a small village with the barrage of refrigerated uncooked dough coupons, but there's nary a high-value coupon anymore for the toothpaste we use. And batteries have been on sale everywhere lately. Do we have extra batteries on hand? I could go check the battery bin, but even if there is a need for batteries, I have so many coupons and they're on sale everywhere and I would probably just be indecisive and totally miss any savings. It would require a massive strategic comparison (taking all of 4 or 5 minutes in reality), but I would make lists and who knows what else and never actually just buy the stupid batteries on sale if we need to stock up.
I'm clearly spending too much time thinking about coupons and not enough finishing up with holiday preparations.
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