ACT English Question of the Day

Coupons

Are you trying to stick to a budget? Using coupons for 61 purchases, also known as “couponing” is a great way to save money on groceries. 62 Coupons are a little piece of paper that can give you a discount on what you buy. You will be amazed at the 63 great bargains and amazing savings you can get!

It’s easy to get started. 64 When you open up your daily newspaper, one might find a glossy insert full of coupons. 65 Some of the coupons will be for things you don’t buy, some will be for things you buy all the time. Go through the coupons and 66 chop out the ones you can use.

The key to successful couponing is getting multiple copies of coupon circulars. Ask 67 your friends, your neighbors, and family if they have any extras. Some coupon users even go through the recycling at their office to find more coupons! 68 Completely devoted, these circulars help coupon users to get even more savings.

Couponing might sound like hard work, but for 69 many people, it’s also a hobby. Not only does it help them save hundreds of dollars per year, 70 but instead it gives them a fun challenge every time they do their shopping.

Is there perhaps a greater value to a life lived without constant counting, penny-pinching, and miserliness? 71 But of what value are such savings? 72 At the end of the day; money is a construct, invented by the elite for the sole purpose of controlling the populace. 73 If we accept this fundamental truth, it behooves one to question the monetary structures that control our lives. Indeed, from this perspective, the very practice of couponing might seem a venial distraction from the valuable human endeavor of personal philosophical consideration. 74

The papers we pore over should be in our books; the pennies we save should be in the currency of our happiness; 75 the budget we have made should have been a budget of our contentment.

A sort of couponing of the soul might ultimately be the solution.

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