Essay # 4 Classification: Coupon Shoppers
             Many people like to clip coupons from coupon books in the Sunday newspaper because they believe that using coupons help save some money. For these people, colorful $2.00 off, $1.00 off and .75 cents off coupons are hard to resist. They consider them money and cut them from coupon books and organize them by category, such as frozen food, juice, and canned food, then shampoo, toothpaste and detergent. Some of my family members are coupon shoppers and never hesitate to use them, and they even try to teach me how to use the coupons. When I go shopping with some of my family, and observe their way of shopping, I find there are three types of coupon shoppers. I call them coupon addicts, coupon thrifts, and coupon maniacs.
             First, the coupon addicts are people who cut any kind of coupon. They don't care about name brands, or if they really need it, but they care about how much they can save. For example, my mother likes Colgate toothpaste, but she has a $1.00 off coupon for Crest toothpaste, so she buys Crest, which leave other members of the family with no choice. In another case, she probably has some toothpaste at home but the $1.00 off coupon is irresistible, so she keeps buying the toothpaste even though she has enough. I was surprised when one of my cousins showed me detergents, shampoos, and soaps stocked in her cabinets. She explained that she had $2.00 off and $1.00 off coupons for those item, so she felt that she had to buy them.
             Second categories, the coupon thrifts use coupons when necessary and try not to use them even though $1.00 off or $2.00 off looks attractive to them. The coupon thrift carefully checks the price and compares the quality before they use the coupons. For example, my aunt uses store coupons which double the coupon's value. She saves a lot of money with this method; however, she spends so much time in the store
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