Comments on: 8 Reasons That You Shouldn’t Use Coupons – Seriously?

By: nancy

nancy — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 05:41:29 +0000

I found your post through another coupon blogger, and have to commend you on your rant. It is sites like yours that allow all of us couponers to be so successful. I love couponing because it’s entertaining – I enjoy spending time to save money.

I couldn’t help but notice Ms. Fontinelle’s name. Doesn’t it remind you of another word that’s pronounced the same? Fontanel? Isn’t that the soft spot on the head? I’m just saying………..

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Fri, 23 Jul 2010 00:16:48 +0000

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By: jessica

jessica — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 11:50:35 +0000

I’m sorry. I just can’t pass this one up.

I have bottles of soft contact solution, but i wear gas permeables. I buy it when it’s a moneymaker and give it to our poor newly married grad school student friends. There are definitely people out there with no self control, but sometimes there’s logic behind the “crazy”.

We’re all given the same hours in a day and all given the choice about how to use it. Maybe she thinks you waste your time.

You’re obviously a blog reader too. Do you know that this blog is about using the coupons that you think are a waste of time?

By: jessica

jessica — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 11:38:17 +0000

don’t you just love how she says that coupons are only for junk food, but then is staring longingly at her freezer while waiting for an ice cream coupon! AND don’t you just love how she says that coupons are only for junk food, but then is staring longingly at her freezer while waiting for an ice cream coupon! This article was only good for a good laugh!!

By: cam

cam — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 01:35:42 +0000

maybe you haven’t seen all the “crazy” moms out there who have NO self control. I know a person with 8 bottles of eye contact cleanser and nobody in her family wears contacts. It just doesn’t make sense to me…not to mention all the time she wastes reading 6 blogs looking for every single deal….I seriously have better things to do then read a bunch of blogs, clip coupons, and run to the stores for items I don’t use.

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Anti-couponers: a fact of life — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 23:19:31 +0000

[...] Mindi at Moms Need to Know went on a rant about the author’s ridiculous points [...]

By: Pangolin

Pangolin — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 20:59:57 +0000

I got to your article from a link from my friend on facebook and I must say I just LOVE what you’ve done to that Yahoo article. We’re both avid coupon clippers and were astounded at how a major website could post such bunk information. Sure you don’t have to be a die hard like we are but seriously the information in that article is terrible!

By: Abby

Abby — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 19:49:35 +0000

I can’t imagine NOT using coupons, but as for #1? We’ve ALWAYS bought a Sunday paper. Even before I’d ever considered using a coupon. It’s just part of our weekend ritual.

Of course now I hurry out and buy the early Sunday edition so I can scan the ads Saturday night … but I still relax after church on Sunday afternoon and READ the paper. I imagine most of us do. After we’ve completed our Rite Aid, Walgreen’s and CVS transactions, that is.

By: Traci

Traci — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 19:42:47 +0000

I have been couponing now for about a year and not only has it been a lifesaver in terms of spending money but it has become a form of entertainment, too. My husband always asks me how much I saved and how much I spent. We were forced to make major lifestyle adjustments with the economy so the couponing has been doubly useful and fun.

By: Raina

Raina — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 19:28:02 +0000

Well put!! I completely agree with you about bringing the kids with you also

By: Erica @ Just Call Me Cheap

Erica @ Just Call Me Cheap — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 04:13:20 +0000

I have given up on people who don’t use coupons. They don’t understand us and don’t want to understand us so let them continue to pay for stuff while we get paid to buy it.

By: gina

gina — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 03:55:42 +0000

you know, it must be nice. Mrs Amy must get paid so much money from her essays that she feel no real need to clip coupons. Many individuals right now, thank their lucky stars that coupons, and of course you Mindi, exist!

By: Musings of a Housewife

Musings of a Housewife — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 23:29:15 +0000

Can you show me how to do that!?

By: Carol

Carol — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 20:36:08 +0000

I saw this article, and couldn’t believe it. I am glad you did a piece on it. What a joke they are – there is no way, no how, no anything that shows that using coupons is in any way a waste of time or money. I was just astonished that someone would write that. Thanks for your time with it!

By: Faith

Faith — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 19:43:27 +0000

Great Response! I want to thank you personally for all the money you’ve helped me save over the past 6 months. Im new to the world of coupons and I have to say that #8 is completely false. Because of your site (and sites like it) I am able to go in with a plan, get exactly what I want and need and get the heck out of that store with lots of stuff and money left in my pocket. I shop for my husband and I and I used to spend $80 – 100 dollars a week at the grocery store. I am now down to $30- $50 and leave with the same size cart (OR MORE) lets not even get me started on what I save at RiteAid and CVS – leaving these stores with $30 worth of stuff for less than $5 out of my pocket… Thanks for all that you do, my husband comments constantly on how Im saving us money and I’m also able to give some of the extras in my stock pile to my neice and mother. I hope people don’t listen to this woman who has no idea what she is talking about!

By: Kristie

Kristie — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 18:59:49 +0000

Well……….you go girl!!! Nicely said!

By: krista

krista — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 17:05:55 +0000

A couple of comments. Great reply to the article.
Maybe Amy was having a bad coupon day. I looked at the article Chris posted..Amy maybe using coupons for 4 months..the article was from March…If she is starting out, I think she is in coupon frustration. If you remember when you first got started..it could be a little frustrating and a little over whelming. So maybe this was her little rant….Maybe with the bloggers emailing her will help her get out of her rut and start saving again.

I’m not sticking up for Amy, but maybe she needed to rant to.

By: Jill

Jill — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 16:57:27 +0000

I think it is HILARIOUS that we “may be enticed by advertisements to buy something we don’t need or want” but that repetitive coupons keep us from “variety and experimentation”. WHICH IS IT? Hmmm…she contradicts herself.

By: Angela

Angela — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 16:17:16 +0000

And this is why…you are my HERO!

I saw the article yesterday and took a few minutes to send her an email and invite her to check out my blog. I also warned her she’s created a stir in the blogosphere.

Gal has NO clue!

BTW…I hope to meet you at BlogHer this year.
.-= Angela´s last blog ..How do YOU organize coupons bloggers- link up! =-.

By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 16:11:07 +0000

http://www.torontosun.com/money/savings/2010/02/26/13047501.html#/money/savings/2010/02/26/pf-13047501.html

I think she knows how …

By: Briana

Briana — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 15:50:00 +0000

Great job Mindi as always! Love it when you get a bit ranty (about coupons anyway!)

By: jen

jen — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 15:08:34 +0000

Once again I have to agree with Mindi. Love your blog and the fact that it teaches people that you don’t have to eat all junk food to save money. Not everyone wants to or needs to be super couponer but everyone can always save a buck!

By: Beth Anne

Beth Anne — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 14:21:13 +0000

This post was SO well written, Mindi! I am a huge fan of your blog and recommend it often, but I think there is so much more to what you offer than “just” coupons or sales…you are a great thinker and writer too! I loved the itemized refutation of every one of the “points” made by the original article.

By: Jolene

Jolene — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 13:15:31 +0000

I agree with Bear. I think Amy is genius. I have a hard time believing she really believes what she wrote. It almost sounded sarcastic at times. I think it was written for the hype that it created. Coupons have saved our family a lot of money!

By: celia

celia — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 12:32:01 +0000

That woman is nuts, and also lazy- if she had done any homework before writing her article she might be saving money with the rest of us. I have saved 130 dollars in just the last two weeks, and I buy mostly organic. .-= celia´s last blog ..how can breast milk =-.

By: Michelle Simmons

Michelle Simmons — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 05:16:40 +0000

I love couponing and am a fan of a few sites. This is the first I have come in contact with your site. I just read this whole article and your viewpoint on it. And now you have a follower for life! You are so right… about everything!

By: Janna Johnson

Janna Johnson — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 02:34:32 +0000

I so agree. People write articles so they can get paid. not so they can inform the public. Couponing saves my family hundreds and hundreds if not thousands each year

By: kristen

kristen — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 02:10:32 +0000

Amen! You said it better than I could've today .-= kristen´s last blog ..Check Out This Yummy Tastefully Simple Giveaway =-.

By: Bonnie

Bonnie — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 01:55:28 +0000

You are so right, Bear! Read Amy Fontinelle’s blog and she tells a different story, all the great things about using coupons to save money. What a crock!

By: The Frugal Free Gal

The Frugal Free Gal — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 01:42:25 +0000

I LOVE my coupons. I will never let anyone tell me that they don’t help me save money. I was actually thinking today, wow! I don’t have to go shopping for a while because I am stocked up on so much–because I bought everything on sale, with coupons. With a child, I LOVEEE not having to shop all the time! I have noticed a HUGE drop in my grocery bills since I have started using coupons.
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