Extreme Couponing
By angel_smiles
@Lolaze (5092)
St. Louis, Missouri
August 8, 2015 12:28pm CST
Right now I'm watching Extreme Couponing on Discovery Channel and the show makes me sick. The woman currently featured spends 50-60 hours a week cutting out coupons and ignores her kids to do so. The show followed the family to the beach, where the mom preferred to sit and cut out coupons rather than play with her kids. Cutting coupons caused her so much stress that she was a wreck over doing it. There is a room in her house that is so stocked it looks like a food pantry. I imagine half of what she has stored there will go bad before her family is able to eat it!
My family will sometimes use coupons on things that are expensive but my mom hates most store brands. I don't understand people who are obsessed with coupons. Do you use coupons when you shop?
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@TiarasOceanView (70020)
• United States
8 Aug 15
I am glad that these people can do well with couponing.
For me it is not paying off, as the things that have coupons, I dont buy.
Why should I buy things that I dont normally buy just to use a coupon?
Often times, I can buy the cheaper product that does not have a coupon.
I probably do not know the correct way to do it.
@lovinangelsinstead21 (36847)
• Pamplona, Spain
10 Aug 15
We don´t have them lol so it does not pay either way neither cheaper food either as we are finding cheaper brands are very bad quality just lately. Never mind that way we don´t eat too much.
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@phoonk (341)
• India
8 Aug 15
@TiarasOceanView But they do it in a crazy way. Don't you think so? However the program is very interesting to watch.
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@cupkitties (7421)
• United States
8 Aug 15
Sometimes. I'm not some crazy coupon lady though. My step mom used to be called the coupon queen by the stores. She had this huge box and spent every day clipping and she even carried that box with us on shopping trips. Great for her saving money, embarrassing for us kids.
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@cupkitties (7421)
• United States
9 Aug 15
@phoonk Oh no. With my parents, you did as they said like it or not. No arguments, questions or complaints about it or things might get really scary.
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@much2say (57760)
• Los Angeles, California
9 Aug 15
I used to be better about it in the past, but I don't buy from the regular grocery store chains much anyway these days, so I don't have a use for many of the coupons out there. It does save money - but only if you're going to use what you're going to buy. I love a good bargain and look for the deals - but I don't want to spend my time clipping tons of coupons to that extreme!
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@GardenGerty (169568)
• United States
10 Aug 15
I tend to buy as much fresh fruit and veggies as I can. The Kroger family store gives some coupons for things like that.
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@mealid (300)
• Kanpur, India
8 Aug 15
ebay is the biggest coupon based online shopping website with quality products and with top rated seller,i always buy products from its top rated or power sellers so i nerver disappointed from ebay yet,if you dont purchase from its top rated or power sellers you may suffer,so my opinion is this please go always with its top rated or power seller if you dont want any issues in your's prouct.
@FourWalls (86855)
• United States
8 Aug 15
I usually don't. I have a friend who is a "heavy couponing" type (not an extreme type): between the sales and the coupons she does well. Personally, I don't even get the local newspaper (it's so bad I'm afraid I'd be turned in to the SPCA for letting a dog use the bathroom on it), but I do get e-mail notifications from Kroger, and if it's something I need I'll take advantage of it.
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@GardenGerty (169568)
• United States
10 Aug 15
Kroger will take the records of what you buy based on your loyalty card and will send you coupons a few times a year.
@sparkofinsanity (20471)
• Regina, Saskatchewan
10 Aug 15
I don't and never have couponed. The time spent comparing, cutting and shopping would be better spent on a part time job that would cover any savings on the coupons!
@cynthiann (18612)
• Jamaica
9 Aug 15
I've watched this programme too and felt envious. We do not have coupons in Jamaica:(
@lovinangelsinstead21 (36847)
• Pamplona, Spain
10 Aug 15
I can understand her trying to get a bargain so to speak but to take it to that extreme is not realistic. You are right the Food will go off before she can eat all of it.
We very rarely have offers or coupons on Food anymore they have stopped it almost altogether not that they did much before that anyway so I don´t miss it really but it would be nice to have a lower price on say tomatoes and lettuce the prices are exhorbitant for this time of year. Great post and something to think about too.
@ricki_911 (21625)
• Toronto, Ontario
15 Nov 15
I am no extreme coupon, but I will use them where I can. I have a stock pile but I saw once as I don't have a tv anymore them having like 50 boxes of cereal. That would do me a few years!!!
