Reply #72: Hannah, the 'advice' about clipping coupons & crap like that always cracks me up [View All]

[Mimosa]

For years, I used to clip coupons like a maniac when I could afford a newspaper subscription. Now a newspaper subscription is sort of dumb and wasteful. The ATL journal Constitution has always been a BAD paper anyway for local news and it's not environmentally responsible to but bunches of newspaper (ATL doesn't have a recycling program for such) when one can get the news online.

I must go back to the article and check how much this financially strapped family in their big fancy schmancy house contributes to good causes or charities. I bet I beat them on with less than a quarter of their income.

Dreamer tatum, your snark about taxing anybody -hypothetical in this case- 100% is just dumb.

There are plenty of yuppie types who live very much like the couple described in the article. I've known a few. These are people whose 'needs' are largely status related. A lot of in the Beltway Washington types are the same. They are clueless about how people making under $90,000 and especially under $50,000 live. And they sure as hell don't want to find out.