The Ultimate Cheapskate’s Book Contest ∞ Get Rich Slowly
Get Rich Slowly is running a contest for a free copy of the Ultimate Cheapskate book. You have to enter a true story of “cheapskatery” and the best three get a copy of the book.
For my money, this entry should be one of the top three:
SG Says:
January 4th, 2008 at 8:49 amIn the checkout queue at the supermarket (your normal supermarket, not Wal-Mart or Costco or any of the bulk-buying places) one day, I was standing behind a man who had the most bizarre collection of items in his shopping cart. I’m talking eight or ten boxes of cake mix, twelve boxes of cereal, and other huge quantities of assorted foods that really bore no resemblance to any sane person’s shopping list, even for a large family. No milk, no eggs or produce, just the packaged foods. The clerk dutifully checked out all the items, and the total came out to somewhere in the realm of $300.
And then the man pulled out a wad — almost a double handful — of coupons.
Several minutes later, after the increasingly baffled clerk had finished scanning all of the coupons and double rebate discounts, the man’s final total was something like $35. He had collected all of those coupons and waited until everything on those coupons went on sale before going on a single massive shopping spree and knocking more than two-thirds of the cost off his total bill. I have never seen anyone coupon-clip on that scale before, and I doubt I ever will again.
That is extreme coupon clipping.
It’s worth a perusal of the other entries as well. Most are pretty funny.
[tags]personal finance, frugality, coupon clipping[/tags]
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