Ok folks.....there is a little nondescript article that popped up on Yahoo!Finance on Monday. It is located HERE.
Within 48 hours it went VIRAL all over Coupon/Frugal Blogland.
All the Coupon Divas(big and small) and a fair number of the Frugalista Bloggers have posted about their outrage at this article & saying the author of said article is just so misinformed!
And all I can sit here and do is laugh.....laugh at the article and laugh at the fact that all these bloggers have their knickers in such a twist over this thing!
I don't know but it seems like everyone has taken this piece of writing as a personal affront to their philosophy and their whole way of life!
And many bloggers have posted rebuttals to this article.
Let's all lighten up, ok?
It's just one person's view.
And actually, it's NOT her view.
She's a hack writer....someone who writes online articles to make $$. To pay her bills.
If you do some research on her, you'll soon find that she's also written articles PRO coupons and such as well as her CON coupons stuff.
She writes whatever they want to pay her to write on.
This gives her 'opinion' NO WEIGHT on these matters in my book.
She'll go whichever way the wind is blowing the Cash!
WHO CARES what she thinks!....er, not thinks because we can't tell what she 'thinks'...who cares what she writes about is more accurate.
This article is not even worth the fuss and certainly not worth the bandwidth it's taking up.
Hey!....if you use coupons, you KNOW it's a good thing.
So stop with the knee-jerk reactions and trying to justify what you do to the world-at-large.
Be at peace with yourself and IGNORE this thing....it will be going away soon enough.
Sluggy
I think it's a shame that coupons are such a volatile topic.
ReplyDeleteEverything the writer claims is both true and false. It really just depends on who you are, how much work you want to put into couponing, how loyal you are to name brands, how you cook, how big a kick you get out of playing the coupon/drugstore games, etc.
I'm a part-time, half-a$$ed couponer, who hates the drugstore games but loves a good restaurant or craft store coupon. So I'll just be blunt about it: Use coupons or don't. Who the heck really cares?
Well, um, you have to have the Sunday paper so your husband, who is never going to read the news on-line, can have the sports section and then leave a pound of paper untouched behind!!!
ReplyDeleteIf it weren't for the coupons, the paper would be useless to me.
Oh yes, and your dog needs the paper that day of the week for the ultimate shredding experience.
She sure has gotten herself a whoooole lot of publicity :)
ReplyDeleteI think its just funny myself lol
ReplyDeleteI saw some bloggers get upset over that article and it just cracked me up.
ReplyDeleteI am with you. Who cares what she writes. She is not the first person to write from that persective and won't be the last.