쿠폰 매니아
쿠폰 매니아
For Miranda Hicks, grocery shopping isn’t a chore 자질구레한 일, it’s a challenge. “I walked out of a grocery store not too long ago with 22 bottles of shampoo and did not spend a penny.” It’s her against the supermarket. How much can she save? “You saved $113.15.” “Whoo-hoo! All right!”
This Dallas area wife and mother of two is a self-proclaimed 자칭의 coupon queen. “There’s no reason to try and tell a lie because I am absolutely obsessed 사로잡힌. I’m addicted 중독된.” Her quest 탐색 begins every Saturday morning at 8am when she purchases twenty, yes, twenty Sunday early edition newspapers.
Miranda and her husband then sort 가려내다, Flip 페이지를 휙휙 넘기다, stack 쌓다, and file thousands of coupons individually by name-brand and product into two three-ring binders. “Very boring.” “Very boring.” “I don’t know. I thought it was kind of crazy at first, sitting there at the table cutting coupons, but then I went to the store with her for the first time and purchased my first items with my coupons and saw the savings….. and I was hooked 사로잡다, 열중케 하다 ever since.”
For the Hicks family, their obsessive coupon cutting means huge savings. “I save between 70 and 100% each week.” That translates into about a thousand dollars a month. And the Hicks are not alone. An estimated 142 million Americans used coupons last year. But of the over 330 billion in discounts offered by companies, only 2.6 billion were redeemed 상품으로 바꾸다.
But Miranda and Michael Hicks seem to be making up for the rest of us. “All of this would’ve cost us $284 and today we only spent $94.” “It’s well worth it. That’s why we’re, that’s why we’re, we do it every day, every day.”