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Originally Posted by Jinn
....Coupons are the same way. Our culture demonizes coupons as something the cheap (poor) people do, and they likewise treated layaway, because I don't where else I would've gotten my impression of it as a child.
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I'm cheap (read frugal) in a lot of ways but am not anywhere close to poor. It's actually probably one of the reasons that I'm not poor.
I rarely buy anything that I can't pay cash for, although, like some others, I sometimes use plastic that I pay off every month.
In my family's hardware store back in Kansas layaway is still quite popular. Often used by working people, not necessarily poor, but who get paid by the week instead of monthly. Also popular with the (ahem) "undocumented," who don't want to have a bank account.
I've used it as kind of an "option to buy" thing at antique stores, which often have an "all sales final" policy, but do offer layaway. I use the layaway to hold some one of a kind thing that I may not be absolutely sure that I want. Then if I decide that I don't want it, I just pay the cancellation fee.
Lindy