I thumb through the coupon flyers once in a while but rarely find anything to use, for the same reasons you and the author mention. I find coupon searching really boring as I find a usable coupon too rarely as to even amount to intermittent reinforcement
I liked the quote from Dacyzyn about passive frugality. A large part of saving money is just that: not spending because your life is simply not rooted in, not organized by, and not energized by being a consumer.
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