I had frozen veggies and couscous, pasta with different sauces, and the million different kinds of soup that I had accumulated over the course of my past few months of couponing. So what did I do? I ate my couponed stockpile. Still wishing and hoping that it would show up each day, I resisted returning to work, thinking “tomorrow- it will definitely be here tomorrow!” I had $700 in my checking account at the time, and it was definitely not a good moment to deal with a month of unexpected unemployment. In fact, it didn’t come for a full month. Then… low and behold… the work visa didn’t come through. I was assured by the company that hired me that it was on its way, and encouraged to give up my NY survival job in preparation to fly out, and in my excitement to get going on this new adventure, I did. I was super excited to go, but there was a little hiccup with my work visa. I had booked a seven-month performing job in China. Then, out of the blue, came the day that I thanked my lucky stars that I had started couponing. I had saved some money, and that was great, but in the end… was it all really worth it? I was living in a three-bedroom shared apartment with two roommates, and my allotted shelf in the kitchen was overflowing. My friends and family thought I was nuts. Is It Worth It?Īs cool as that was, I started wondering what all this effort was for. My couponing grew and grew from there, until I finally accomplished my crowning achievement of bringing $70 worth of groceries and incidentals to the register, paying NOTHING, and having CVS pay me $7 to carry it all out of the store. The next week, I clipped more, went to the store… and actually used some of them. It was slow to start: I clipped some coupons, went to the store, got frustrated, and gave up. I also realized that there were habits I could pick and choose out of their craziness, to make couponing MY OWN- in an NYC apartment-sized space, with the limited amount of time and attention that I had to devote to it. I too thought they were nuts, but the more I watched, the more I realized that what they were accomplishing was sort of miraculous. I was home, bored, and feeling poor (as all New Yorkers, and especially, as all NY actors feel on a daily basis), when I turned on the TV to a bunch of housewives in the Midwest going absolutely insane over a. TLC’s Extreme Couponing might have been the shameful reason why I gave it a try to begin with, as much as I’d hate to admit it. We live in a city where we can get any kind of food (or groceries, for that matter!) delivered to our apartment at any time of night, and the thought of planning and clipping and organizing and storing more than one bottle of shampoo at a time seems ridiculous.Īll of these arguments were 100% mine as well, until I started, and now it’s difficult to imagine how I possibly got by WITHOUT couponing.
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