Posted April 7, 201114 yr Watching a show on TLC called Extreme Couponing.First lady had over $630 worth of groceries, paid after coupons something like $2.46Second lady had over $250 worth of groceries, paid under $6Last guy......bought over $5200 worth of groceries and health/beauty supplies (deodorant, etc) and paid just over $240. Yes, that's a $5000 savings. That purchase included 1100 boxes of cereal......
April 7, 201114 yr Author How many coupons and bought where? Hundreds of coupons, literally. It takes several hours for these people to check out. Stores.....whichever is offering the best in-store discounts and multiplies the coupons.Next episode:Retail cost $1902.63, paid $103.72
April 7, 201114 yr Here I thought my wife was a thrifty coupon shopper! Holy shit that is a ton of savings!
April 7, 201114 yr Here I thought my wife was a thrifty coupon shopper! Holy shit that is a ton of savings!That's how you can afford all your stereo stuff
April 7, 201114 yr I hope I never get behind someone like that. It'd probably be obvious though, 10 carts of stuff and 2 carts of coupons.
April 7, 201114 yr only if car audio had coupon's! wouldn't that be something! so I got a question lets say someone saves 5000$ on stuff but all this stuff has expiration dates on it... do they freeze it all? or do they resell it to friends? or do they just have really big families?
April 7, 201114 yr Hell yeah man crazy.1800$ down to 5$ Looked like some y2k type stuff.the one family had 7 kids.But the last one was only a fat couple lofind me some coupons
April 7, 201114 yr My wife watched that and I caught the tail end of it.Crazy.She said these people go digging through trash cans and stuff to find coupons. I like savings the money but I ain't digging through the trash unless I had no other options.
April 7, 201114 yr I gotta hit the coupons when we get home...........not diggin thru trash or nothin but hey savings is savingsJ
April 7, 201114 yr only if car audio had coupon's! wouldn't that be something! so I got a question lets say someone saves 5000$ on stuff but all this stuff has expiration dates on it... do they freeze it all? or do they resell it to friends? or do they just have really big families?Don't buy 5 grand in milk and you should be alright. Non-perishable items are win.
April 7, 201114 yr None of the stores around here allow multiple coupons. That's really where and why these people are able to get so much for so little IMO. That and a little bit of obsessiveness, or a lot. It looks to me like some of the people on the show just really get off on being able to do that much shopping for so little. Others though, are doing a fantastic job providing for their families on very little. I know if they allowed multiples on coupons around here my wife would be able to clean up good, and god knows I need it considering there's me, her, my 4 kids, my little brother and now his girlfriend all living in one house. :suicide-santa: :suicide-santa: :suicide-santa:
April 7, 201114 yr I think I saw that episode were at the end he built a tower of cereal boxes. That is some serious coupon dedication!!
April 7, 201114 yr Who the hell needs 1100 boxes of cereal? I don't have the patience to look for coupons that I'd actually use. Usually I'll only find something like 1 out of 100 that I need or would use.
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