Remember when you had to clip physical coupons from the Sunday paper?

I was cleaning out a drawer last night and found a pair of scissors stained with newsprint ink. It hit me how much couponing has changed since the 90s. Back then my mom would spend Sunday afternoons with a stack of papers, scissors, and a glue stick for her coupon binder. Now I just punch a code into my phone at checkout and save $15 without even printing anything. The digital shift started around 2010 for me, but it really took off once stores got their apps working right. You still run into online codes that expired yesterday though, which is frustrating. Am I the only one who misses the ritual of flipping through those colorful inserts?

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evangarcia9d ago

See this everywhere now. People traded in the hands on stuff for convenience without realizing something got lost along the way. The whole experience got flattened into a barcode scan.

wells.reese9d agoMost Upvoted

Just find the actual brand site and cut out the middleman, usually saves you the headache.