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Coupon Crazy: The Science, the Savings, & the Stories Behind America's Extreme Obsession
Coupon Crazy: The Science, the Savings, & the Stories Behind America's Extreme Obsession
Coupon Crazy: The Science, the Savings, & the Stories Behind America's Extreme Obsession
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Coupon Crazy: The Science, the Savings, & the Stories Behind America's Extreme Obsession

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A fascinating history of this marketing tactic, and why some shoppers take it to extremes—from a longtime expert couponer.

Coupon Crazy examines the phenomenon of avid coupon use and the socio-cultural and socioeconomic factors that construct it. By delving into the history of couponing, refunding, the science of shopping, and the dark underbelly of a coupon world the average American doesn’t even know about, Mary Potter Kenyon manages to both fascinate and educate. Readers will meet today’s “Coupon Queens” (and Kings) and learn about an era when trash really was cash. Not just an observer of this ethnographic research, Mary lived it for over thirty years.

“My favorite aspect of the entire book was the candid tone Kenyon takes in sharing her story and others. As someone that both uses coupons and teaches couponing practices, I found the book triggering self-reflection at many points: Do I purchase products just because they are on sale? Do I devalue products I’ve gotten for free? Do I allow coupons to inform my purchases or the other way around?  If you are a couponer, it’s quite possible you’ll find yourself reflecting on your own shopping habits as you read this book, too.” —Angela Russell, The Coupon Project
LanguageEnglish
Release dateJun 18, 2013
ISBN9781938301896
Coupon Crazy: The Science, the Savings, & the Stories Behind America's Extreme Obsession
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Mary Potter Kenyon

Mary Potter Kenyon graduated from the University of Northern Iowa with a BA in psychology and is a certified grief counselor. By day, she works as Program Coordinator for Shalom Spirituality Center. By night, she is a public speaker for churches and women's groups and a workshop presenter and writing instructor for community colleges, libraries, and writer's conferences. She is widely published in newspapers, magazines, and anthologies, including ten Chicken Soup for the Soul books. Mary is the author of five previous Familius titles, including the award-winning Refined by Fire: A Journey of Grief and Grace. She lives in Dubuque, Iowa, with the youngest of her eight children. Visit her website at marypotterkenyon.com.

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    I think the best about all of these is the stories about the extremes people go to. For example, I had no idea about the amount of coupon fraud that was going on a few years ago! I wonder how the extreme couponers are doing things now. I haven't (in my life) ever seen stores do double coupons or triple coupons and I haven't seen much manufacturer coupons in years as well.

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