Have you seen the show "extreme couponing"?

[mawhite63]

Did anyone watch it last night?

I'm trying to figure it out, but I'm wondering if it's really location-specific. For example, where I live, it's my understanding that the Kroger in Memphis will only allow you to double coupons under $0.60, and you can't combine both card-coupons and paper coupons.

I'm going to give it a try with getting a binder, saving coupons and then matching store specials to my saved coupons, but I'm wondering if you have to live in a specific area to get some of those crazy savings like I saw on the TV show.

[sdenimandlace1]

I thought they only double to 55cents here in middle tn.  I do use coupons and have saved as much as 40 buck and that the best i have every done.  The  grocercy store here will not take coupons printed from home.

[workmama]

I am a coupon clipper, but I wouldn't say an EXTREME one. I do however, print off coupons every week off my printer. I go to various websites looking for coupons after I have written my shopping list, looking for that one last deal on things. I usually go to stores that will allow me to double my coupons while there is also a sale going on.....I save big that way. One time I saved $23.00 off my groceries list with coupons. I also do loyalty programs and I will get a $9.00 off groceries no matter what the amount for being one of the store's Top Customers....lol. Other than that, that is all I do coupon wise. 

I haven't seen the show Extreme Couponing.....but from what I have read in this thread about and the extremes that people go to just get coupons, I think I will check it out one day just to get a laugh! 

[kqa]

I have never seen it but heard of it.  From the looks of these posts, it almost sounds as extreme as "Hoarders," which I had to stop watching because it made me sick. LOL  Maybe I should check this show out.  Coupons can definitely come in handy if it's something you already use.

[nickit]

I never seen it.

[Linda67]

I watched it last night too.  The thought of spending 5 hours preparing for your shopping trip and 5 hours at the checkout made me think those folks must be nuts.  I know they are saving money but their time should be worth something.  I may have heard the number wrong but one of the women said she had something like 1,400 rolls of toilet paper under her son's bed.  Hoarding sounds like a really good definition to me.   

[zeestar32]

That show is RIDICULOUS! But good at the same time. It shows me how to save with coupons

[Azanne07]

I have seen the commericals and wish i could coupon like some of these people. If i could save 75% of our grocery bill it would be great. hell if i could save 50% i was happy.

[Boise40]

I watched a few minutes of it last night and I'm still confused how those people do it. I remember when I was younger that my mom and her boyfriend would use coupons. I just wish I knew where to get the coupons and how to get started with all this coupon stuff LOL.

[mawhite63]

Well, the people on the show I would definitely classify as hoarders, just my opinion.

But really, why so much toilet paper?



And this is one of her kid's rooms. Must be great having a friend over. "C'mon up to my room, ignore the toilet paper"

I think the difference between these people and the ones you see on Hoarders or Hoarding is the coupon people all seem to be super super organized. I just don't understand how some of them do this and work at the same time. It seems to me this is like a full time job.

[tammypete]

I didnt see the show but I heard a little bit about it.  I am a coupon clipper and frequently use coupons but I dont understand buying 400 of the same thing that you will never use!   That makes no sense to me!!!....Whats the difference in stockpiling all of that stuff vs hoarding??

[texaswhiterose]

I have seen the show. I clip coupons but have never done it to that extreme. The average person could never do that. The money they spent for the amount of groceries they got makes me wonder if it can possibly be real.

[doglover77]

i really don't think it's possible to save that much money. did they really need 50 bottles of nestea?

[sommap]

It was just plain greedy to clean out the shelf of something like 63 bottles of mustard.  Her husband says he doesn't even like mustard.  My stores around here do not do double coupons, except for one, which will take up to 5 double coupons on Wednesday.  I have also been doing some reading on different blogs about the show.  They said that the one gal in the high heels used to have a video showing how you can cheat at the register with your coupons.  She developed a system where you substitute coupons with similar product codes.  This should be considered as fraud.  They said that looking at her groceries, it did not look like she bought some of the things that she had coupons for - she substituted higher money off coupons for some products.  I guess you might get by with that when you buy so many carts full of stuff, but my grocrey store would not let me get by with that.  I have been questioned a few times with a coupon and had to prove that I purchased the product.  I have also been told that a certain coupon did not cover the product I bought (I did it by mistake, not trying to get by with something).  I usually keep my purchased coupons back in my envelope before checkout, but once or twice a coupon has gotten in the envelope and I had not purchased the product.  The checker gave me back the coupon.

[evilpixiemagic]

i watched it and i have no clue how they do it,  but it wish some one would teach me!