<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px; "><p style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">My coupon philosophy, circa 2008: Don't waste your time.</span></span></p><p style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Not only are they marketing ploys to get us American sheep to buy more things we don't need, but pulling out a wad of coupons at the register pisses off everyone in line behind you. Besides that, they're dorky. Even my grandmother won't use them.</span></span></p><p style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">That's all changed now.</span></span></p><p style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Without coupons, I would have spent $140 on groceries last weekend. But, thanks to what I and a class of a dozen other twenty-somethings learned earlier in the week from Sarah Roe, the 918 Coupon Queen herself, who blogs at </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><a href="http://www.918couponqueenblog.com">918couponqueenblog.com</a></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">, I paid $115.</span></span></p><p style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">I don't know about you, loyal readers, but I can think of many, many things more fun to do with a 20 spot than spend it on baby wipes and overpriced boxes of cereal.</span></span></p><p style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 16px;">Read the rest of this story <a href="http://www.urbantulsa.com/gyrobase/Content?oid=oid%3A27225">in Consumer Watchdog in this week's Urban Tulsa Weekly</a>.</span></p></span>