[ETCM]

“Coupon clipping” was a thing for The Greatest Generation, including many Boomers Parents and Grand Parents on a fixed income. Middle Class retirees back then didn’t have 401K’s, but many of them bought bonds for retirement income, and they clipped and remitted those coupons to supplement their income. For some, including widows and orphans, those coupons were all they had. Of course, Joe only knows rich folks, so he assumes they are the only ones that “clip coupons”. Sorry Joe, but the folks you hung around didn’t clip anything, they hired people that took care of that for them.

[blackdog]

I still have a few dozen S&H Greenbooks, full of stamps from my grandmother. We used to spend time together when I was five-ish by her swimming pool sipping her iced tea, pasting the stamps in the books.

I am certain she had Southern Comfort in her iced tea as my appreciation for life has grown. Good times.