Coupons cannot be redeemed for money. Technically, they are worth about 1/100 of a cent if you read the fine print. So coupons are not money.
But to a seasoned couponer, coupons are like money.
We use coupons to lower the amount of money we have to pay the store, and the store gets reimbursed for the amount the coupon states (as long as we use it properly).
Coupons are so much like money, that CVS recently changed their Extra Care Buck coupons to look more like money and include the $ symbol. They are saying, “If you through out your ECB, it is just like throwing out money.”
So, coupons aren’t money. But they can save you money, and many couponers treat them just like money!
Do you consider your coupons to be like money?
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For me only coupons that are products I buy nearly regardless of cost are like money to me. IF it is an item I buy when it is cheap, the coupon is not like money to me. It makes it so I might be more liable to buy the item if it gets cheap enough after coupon, but not like money. If I think of them like money, all coupons that is, I think I could value them too highly and be more willing to pay for them, or to buy more newspapers, etc. There are few coupons each week that are like money to me. Maybe about one every two or three weeks. (Okay, those that later match up to a CVS or WAGS sale that gives me some cash back are also like money, but I rarely know which ones that will be.)
Coupons are definitely like money to me. I get very sad when one expires that I intended to use. They are the “money” that I use at the store first and then hand over the real money.