- Joined
- Mar 13, 2008
- Location
- Ontario
Coupons eh?
If you read about problem gamblers, say on the Gamcare forum, many will say the same thing. They'll carefully pick products in supermarkets and compare prices to save a few pence, and watch carefully what they spend on other stuff in a likewise manner. Then they will spunk tens/hundreds of pounds gambling. Subconsciously, this is because in the twisted logic of an addict, being 'careful' elsewhere somehow justifies the reckless spending on gambling, a sort of mental balancing act that obscures temporarily the fact that the pennies saved don't come close to the hundreds spunked. The self-deception of the gambler.
If you guys hadn't gambled, do you honestly believe you'd be collecting coupons?
Yes. My mother did it 50 years ago, and she was not a gambler. I have a little extra money because I price match, coupon, and shop the specials, cook at home instead of eating out, and if I want to gamble it, my danged business.
Mind you, I'll drop $100 in an hour gambling, but I refuse to pay over $7 a lb for bacon. That might be a little twisted.