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...fantastic people doing couponing," says Betty Buckley, a Marietta, Ga., housewife with eight children who estimates that she saves $2,000 a year with coupons and refunds. When groups of friends gather for "swap meetings," she says, "you can be sure you all have something in common-inflation." Mary Janoyan, 33, a Troy, Mich., housewife, boasts of saving an average of $200 a month on her household budget. Says she: "If couponing and refunding were stopped tomorrow, I'd have to go some place for my withdrawal symptoms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Snipping Away at Inflation | 6/22/1981 | See Source »

...good year. She puts out a monthly newsletter called Market Wizard ("cash from trash") that goes to 132,000 subscribers. Like most other discounters, she is middle to upper-middle class. (Poorer consumers tend to go for the greater direct savings on lower-priced no-name brands.) As Janoyan puts it, "It feels like upper-middle-class poor to us. If it weren't for my couponing and refunding, we'd be on the broke list right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Snipping Away at Inflation | 6/22/1981 | See Source »

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