Dear Reader Column 02-01-16

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Dear Reader,

A coupon was slid between two cans of beans. They were the brand I liked and now I was going to save 25 cents. I smiled, and I looked around for someone to thank, but of course the coupon fairy was long gone.

Yes, coupons save money, but coupons drive me crazy, too. Sometimes I wish coupons didn't even exist, because when I'm at the store shopping, my coupons are usually sitting on my kitchen counter. So after discovering a coupon tucked away between two cans of beans, I think I'm going to forget about trying to use coupons myself, and become a coupon fairy.

Once a week after clipping coupons, I'll head to the store and spread "coupon fairy dust." Walking up and down the aisles, I'll tuck coupons underneath matching products. I'm smiling just thinking about how happy people will be when they find them.

Hopefully leaving coupons on the grocery store shelves will be easier than this past October, when I tried to give away an extra $5.00 coupon.

The man and his wife were standing in line in the aisle next to me at the market. His wife was busy putting their groceries on the checkout belt. I had a coupon for $5.00 off, if you spent $40 in the store, the coupon expired the next day and my groceries were not going to total up to $40, but I could see their items would. So I walked over and asked the man if he would like the coupon.

He looked me over, apparently I looked spooky and untrustworthy because a disgusting look came over his face and he delivered a firm, "NO!"

I thought maybe he just didn't understand, so I thought I'd try it one more time. "But you'll save $5.00 on the groceries you're buying."

"I said, NO!"

Okay, I got it. I thought the man was going to call-out for store security and I was starting to feel like a coupon stalker.

No more of that for me. Next week I'll clip coupons, grab my fairy wings and head for the supermarket

Thanks for reading with me. It's so good to read with friends.

Suzanne Beecher
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Comments

[Gord Newel]

This made me laugh out loud.

Almost the exact same thing happened to me a few years back, I had a $5 off $50 soon to expire grocery coupon. I was in a suit, my daughter was in her school uniform.

While still in the parking lot but all our groceries packed in the trunk I said her, "let's give this to someone, make their day"

first lady we approached looked at us and said, "no thank you" without even a glance at what I had in my hand. The second lady saw us coming and made a beeline to the store.

I gave up before my daughter was completely traumatized in my efforts to pay it forward.