For many people, coupon-clipping has been a popular way to save money.
Coupons can be clipped from the grocery store and other retail ads, and for many years.
my wife has clipped coupons as well.
The first thing she does when the Sunday newspaper arrives, is to go through the inserts to look for bargains, etc.
We have a trade-off...
she does the grocery shopping and I clean the house.
One day, I went into the kitchen to fix a sandwich and to get a cold drink.
As I was rummaging through the refrigerator,looking for the ingredients for my sandwich, I got everything I needed, including a large jar of mayonnaise...
and, then I noticed another large jar of mayonnaise, and then another!"What's going on here?" I thought to myself.
Why do we have four jars of mayonnaise in the refrigerator? I had to go to the pantry, to get the rest of the ingredients for my lunch, and there I noticed FIVE more large jars of mayonnaise!This was getting out of hand! All this mayonnaise for a family of four...
with two small children?I couldn't believe it, as this was enough mayonnaise to feed the entire country of Bulgaria for a year!The only thing I could think of how this could happen, was the use or mis-use of coupons.
My wife does the shopping.
and probably saw a coupon for mayonnaise and bought a jar...
and then another...
and then another...
until the mayonnaise piled up! All together, there were NINE large jars of mayonnaise in the refrigerator and in the pantry!I had no idea how to solve this problem, but my wife had a little explaining to do.
If this continued, I think she was going to need a little therapy...
and what better thing to do for her, than send her to Minnesota, so she could get a little counseling at...
you guessed it...
the Mayo Clinic!