I will never utter the c-word on this blog. You know, the word for tickets that reduce prices on products? You clip them out of the Sunday paper? It rhymes with “moupon”.
I cannot be associated with the frugal blogs, ever. If I were to type in the c-word right now, I would immediately be spammed to death by cruel hoaxters, who would link me up with all sorts of promotional offers for free everything strange under the sun. Prosthetic body parts and such.
My brother is convinced that most of the frugal blogs are the reverse of consumerism, but a fresh new spin on:
LOVE OF MONEY.
Only through obsessively conserving it, rather than through recklessly spending it. We talked about this over Christmas.
And I agree.
Money-saving blogs, though exceedingly helpful on some counts, can lead to a pre-occupation with money that is neither healthy nor good. A focus on the temporal is just that: temporal. We will not take any of our crisp dollar bills or shiny pennies with us when we die, so life is to be lived in light of eternity, not the now. Right?
I get that. But, I also get this:
28 yogurts for free.
I do love a good c*upon:)
I was just looking at National Geographic today at Walgreen’s where I was cashing in all my moupons for Grecian formula. There was an interesting article on the Mormons. Just think how frugal a household could be if a fellow had 10 or 15 wives all using moupons. I liked the ladies hairdos, kind of like Elvis with a Dutch braid and a mullet.
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Oh Maryanne…I decided to organize our desk the other day…the amount of expired coupons…I felt like i had to confess to you or something:)
Sure agree with you about reverse money-obsession. Equally challenging for the financially -challenged, without a doubt.,
Couldn’t agree with you more!
So glad to be reading you again!
I think it’s easy for others to confuse a niche blogging focus with an money obsession. Just because you limit writing to a particular topic of interest does not mean that same interest controls every other area of real life.
That said, I did just meet about 40 coupon bloggers at the Blissdom conference this weekend. There is definitely an acquisitive nature to the bargain blogs that doesn’t always overlap with frugal blogging.