Forums Now OPEN!

Alright, finally finished fleshing out the sections. Plenty more information to get filled in, along with a full rules list, but that can be finished over the course of the evening. I just wanna get everything opened up before the weekend so we can get started trading!

They can be found in the navigation dropdown at the top of the page or the link to the right of the page. Eventually buttons for posting and linking will be shared and maybe a membership drive?

Please remember I do require you use the screen name you use at other sites so that you can be easily recognized. Anyone found using a different name will be banned automatically.

Welcome to the site.

Forums and Stores and Updates-Oh My!

So I’ve been toiling away on the hidden backside of the site. A forum and a store are in order for the future. Somewhere to chat and share information and whatnot. And somewhere to possibly offer coupon organizers and coupons themselves-should I see sufficient interest to start a clipping service. Just have to finish tweaking the interfaces, fleshing out the framework and making it all look pretty.

Stay tuned.

Need vs. Want

In today’s still crumbling economy, it is a rat race to get to the good deals. Many people seem to think that they are entitled to buy thirty of something since there are thirty on the shelf, even if its the last thirty in the store. Still others think they can judge you for taking ten of those thirty items, since as a single adult you can’t possibly use ten, even if there are twenty left for the next shopper and more out back beside.

It seems everywhere I turn there are rude ignorant people out to make me feel bad for shopping and finding and using coupons. Which only goes about creating hard feelings and showing new couponers that they cannot trust anyone because you never know when someone might go from friendly to jealous and stab you in the back.

A popular forum listed in the glossary here has banned me for being “rude” without any prior warning. Which leads me to believe they just don’t like me. I’ve been a mod and an admin on enough large forums to know you don’t EVER deviate from your own rules unless someone tries to hack your forum. Which I clearly did not.And since no clear example of me being mean could be furnished it smelled of simple favoritism. Just because you run a forum/blog/website doesn’t mean you are above the law. It just means you have to continually ban people who see you for the greedy, self serving brats you are. Obviously you do this only for monetary gain and the better chance to get the coupons you want, since people are too blind to realize that people trade with mods/admins hoping to gain favoritism. Sickening.

Another forum has a member with a signature line about how it must be Smash&grabbing if you have more winetag than you can possibly use instead of leaving enough for others. When I contacted her to mention I make one to two dozen or more trips to almost a dozen different stores and thus have alot more coupons than some people, she still said obviously since I was hoarding winetags I was greedy. Now if I was hoarding peanut butter I was not. Contradictory or what? My mention that several members wouldn’t find me greedy as I sent them large envelopes of winetags, without asking a thing in return, was ignored since clearly it did not support her theory.

Something in the chase, the adrenaline rush, the missed deal seems to bring out the rabid fangs of jealousy. That most couponers are women and thus more emotional and hormonal doesn’t seem to help. We tend to get so caught up in trying to find the good deal we forget to not turn on each other without provocation. Instead we start calling each other greedy and slamming people for asking that they get what they are supposed to and tell them they should “fly under the radar” at all costs. Which is just another euphemism for bending over and taking it and praying you can fix it other ways. Which makes you feel victimized and weak, not empowered for taking your finances into your own hands.

My own feelings are that you have to look at yourself in the mirror and sleep with yourself at night. If you take every winetag and tearpad you see and sell them on Ebay, I can’t say I agree with you, but you aren’t going to stop because I tell you to. Calling you greedy isn’t going to make it different either, and a newbie is going to see right through to the jealous rage causing the issue.

I have always been blessed to find plenty of coupons and deals. I do go out of my way at times to do so, and thus work hard to get what I have. Yes winetags are hard to find in some areas of Maine, but I drive 30mins out of my way to search in York, another 30mins to search in Wells. If I find what I want I’ve earned it. If you don’t want to search in new places you probably won’t find them. Thats the trade off. I trade my winetags with others, and find more often than not the person whining about not finding any also wants every last winetag I have but not to trade their own winetags in return. Which tells me they are very much greedy and jealous and just mean spirited. Karma clearly isn’t going to reward such behavior.

So go forth, search and be frugal. But remember to use your own discretion so that you don’t have doubts as to whether you’ve been greedy and mean about it.