You're frugal by nature, and now you're suddenly popular with all the new frugal wannabes. Don't blow your chances for making new friends by engaging in behaviors described by "Coupon Artist" in her post "How not to win frugal friends."

Example: Instead of praising your co-worker for packing a lunch for the first time and not eating out, she writes, you "berate her and laugh at her folly for not washing out and reusing her Ziploc bags ...."

Also don't do this: Demonstrate frugal gift-giving by buying your friend some trinket at a dollar store or "regift that as-seen-on-TV hair-waxing system. Maybe it will work better and give her less of a rash than it gave you." Ewww.

Among others on the not-to-do list at Art of the Coupon:

• At the church potluck, let everyone know that you're taking the leftovers home. "While you are at it, the best way to teach them a lesson about buying all those expensive Tupperware dishes is to make sure they never get them back ...."
• Rather than congratulating your newly frugal friend for clipping coupons and buying store brands, she writes, "wave your $0.02 out-of-pocket receipts in her face and shout ‘It's good to be king!'"

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