Extreme couponing

[donutsmakemegonuts]

The whole show is disturbing to me. Maybe it's because I just can't understand those people...I'm all for saving money and getting deals but, no. Just no.

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I just can't imagine any circumstances under which I would suddenly need a lifetime supply of ketchup or q-tips on hand.

[speckledfrog]

I must be a form of some sort of condition. It's just not rational.

[cheeseandcrackers]

I love saving money and couponing.. but not to that extreme ha

[eb777888]

Mar 31, 2013 14:21:19 GMT -5 sameoldash said:

HOARDERS. all of them.

Yep.

I have a friend who does this. She's the one who will clear the shelves of Aqua Net and I Can't Believe It's Not Butter and never uses it. Like, seriously, she should be on the show. It's defintiely hoarding and I think it's kind of a problem for a lot of people.

[speckledfrog]

Mar 31, 2013 14:25:30 GMT -5 mekiakoo said:

Her husband told her that she would need to give away stuff she gets to charity and she was whining about it. Wants to keep everything. But for what?

Don't these stuff have expiration dates? No way any of them can survive at least 2-3 years.

And what happens if their house burns down? Has a flood?

But if the apocalypse comes they'll probably be set.

[eb777888]

Mar 31, 2013 14:29:48 GMT -5 sameoldash said:

Mar 31, 2013 14:28:16 GMT -5 eb777888 said:

Yep.

I have a friend who does this. She's the one who will clear the shelves of Aqua Net and I Can't Believe It's Not Butter and never uses it. Like, seriously, she should be on the show. It's defintiely hoarding and I think it's kind of a problem for a lot of people.

does she have any justifications for why she does this? obviously she'll never use this shit, but why does she say she buys it in the first place? i don't get it. thank goodness this is not my form of addiction.

I don't think she knows why she does it, honestly. And she's always pushing this crap on her friends, like "HERE take this White Rain shampoo! It's FREE!" She is seriously cheap, too. Like notoriously among our group of friends and we all dread having any monetary transactions with her. So I don't know if it's a money thing or a hoarding thing or both. And I'm totally honest with her and tell her this to her face, lol. 

[moolarkey]

I was at Target yesterday, woman ahead of me had massive amounts of coupons. SLOWEST clerk in history of clerking. Scan 1 coupon, slowly move it with one hand to a stack 2 feet away of other coupons that had already been stacked. I'm a multi-tasker, efficiency driven person this was making me crazy. I moved to another register and was done before the clerk was finished scanning. no lie, I could have done them in 25% of the time it took her.

[speckledfrog]

Mar 31, 2013 15:05:23 GMT -5 mekiakoo said:

And now this lady had hysterectomy, but she still buys pads/tampons.

Does she say why?

[cheeseandcrackers]

There was one where teh guy was 16 and he was buying pads and stuff like that..

[cheeseandcrackers]

He said he bought them for his mom.
But he bought them because he was making money of them.

[kcr1972]

It is not illegal. Some stores have approached big time couponers and asked them nicely not to sell the stuff but there is no law against it.

[Deleted]

I think they are all frustrated lawyers. Seriously. That's what the law is. Profiting from loopholes. There is already a way to make money from this hobby that doesn't require hoarding.

[kcr1972]

Also that show is very staged. Most stores have limits thus the reason some people have to make multiple trips.

Kroger is 10 like coupons here in some areas its 5.

The producers of this show make sure there are no restrictions or hassles during filming. It is possible to do though. A lot of what they buy is stupid.

I did get a bunch of makeup free last week. Not stuff I use but my grandmother was tickled pink about receiving it.

[kcr1972]

Mar 31, 2013 17:05:53 GMT -5 mekiakoo said:

Staged or not, these people still have a problem. Look at their stock!

I agree. I don't buy anything I won't use (except the makeup but that rarely happens) and I don't buy more than 5 items

[moolarkey]

I did see one episode where a young guy was couponing but he was donating all of it. When someone does that, I'm all for it but just to stock stuff you don't use, won't use in your lifetime really bugs me. I work with woman who is sort of an extreme couponer but she does limit it to things they actually use. She has 5 kids from 9 to 18 at home so they do use a lot of shampoos, toothpaste, deoderant, things like that. She's gotten another woman at work started on it, she told me she will never have to buy toothbrushes or any of that other stuff again, she manages her coupons to get it all free. She had 2 little kids at home.

I think I'm a normal couponer, if I have them I use them but I don't plot to get triple value or anything. The best I've ever saved in one trip was $48 off the total bill of about $146 dollars.