 Re: How did you get your DH on board?
Originally Posted by PMFan  my DH doesn't do much shopping but when he does go to HD or Lowes etc, if there is a coupon, he'll use it.
doing the math proves using coupons makes good financial sense.
let's say by using coupons you avoid spending $150 monthly, at the end of the year, that is $1,800.
that could be used to pay off bills, pay for a vacation or be invested toward retirement.
invest that $1800 annually for 10 years at 10% and you have nearly $32,000.00. | YUP, yup, yup. That kind of talking got my dh on board as well...
Now my new quandry is that he will spend money BECAUSE we have a coupon for it...
(that's not the idea!!)
I'm glad I'm the frugal one in our family because I'd really hate it if someone was telling me all the time NO we cannot buy that, that's ridiculous, are you KIDDING??, not hardly, etc. And over the past two weeks all of that has come out of my mouth.
Actually, though, if you add up all the big ticket purchases he makes over the course of a year with coupons, and all the little stuff I buy with coupons, he still does ok. I just hate spending $$. No getting around it. |