Coupons--Let the Clipper Beware

They can waste time and money plus undermine health.

Coupons�"Let the Clipper Beware

 

By Elton Camp

 

For those who don’t know how to shop

Cutting out coupons perhaps should stop

 

Some clipper will shout in utter dismay

“How can such foolishness you dare say?”

 

“By using coupons, I get items at little cost

And now you suggest that my effort is lost!”

 

Yet, a waste of time and money they can be

And may even endanger health as we’ll see

 

Coupons are always for name brand stuff

Where the price is inflated and plenty rough

 

Very often the generic brand is just as good

To truly save, buying it is what you should

 

Coupons can make us buy items we don’t need

The only benefit is to the marketer’s own greed

 

We should be particularly wary if it says “Free”

For very rarely the truth will that actually be

 

Coupons can persuade us to buy unhealthy things

Salty, sugary, sodas that many a problem brings

 

What’s spent on junk food is money thrown away

There’s no savings despite what the coupon may say