Have you seen the show "extreme couponing"?

[Lindaroof]

I watched and thought it was rediculous! My husband is retired from the grocery business and he agrees that it is not like what they are showing you! I won't be wasting my time watching it again! FAKE

[ninajay]

I heard of it, but never watched.  I saw a segment on the news the other day where a woman bought over $600 worth of groceries for around $6. Don't need $600 worth, but  paying only $6 is great

[robin1128]

i useed to use coupons alot but not as much as i use too and i never buy things i don't use

[TTnutso]

  seen the show, extremly crazy.  If one would give to people in need, that would be great but to stockpile to extreems someone needs to get a life

[mjdoug03]

I have never seen it or heard of it.  I enjoy couponing but I wish I was as good as those people who pay a few bucks for hundreds worth of food!

[heartofphila]

I haven't seen the show, but what a funny name for reality tv.

[southernhorizons]

I've never seen the show, but I agree with others who say it is fake. Most of the coupons I have say you can't combine them with any other coupons, so that part of it is really fake. Besides, you are not really saving anything when you spend hours and hours doing this stuff. And I agree that the people who hoard stuff they will never use are selfish, and should be sharing with poor people.

[mawhite63]

OK, well, first off I'm mad that I lost my receipt from yesterday, because I wanted to be able to give exact numbers, but I'll do it from memory.

 I did a little over $15.00 in coupons yesterday from Walgreens so I was pretty excited. I decided I wasn't going to buy anything that I wouldn't already use, because that would be wasteful, but I was only going to buy items that were in the sales circular. I used the Walgreens coupons from the insert and I had two coupons for other items that were on sale. The total before tax was a little over $36.00, so at 42% savings I was really happy.

I used coupons before, mostly for pet items or for things I bought every week, but this was the first time for me planning a shopping trip around only sale and coupon items. I'm actually kicking myself a bit because I can't believe I didn't do this sooner. I just always assumed it was cheaper to buy the store brands.

I still think some of the people on that show are nuts to stockpile so many items, but in a way I'm grateful to them, because they taught me something. I'm going to start planning mid-week shopping trips revolving around only coupon and circular items. I'm still only going to buy things that I actually use on a regular basis, but I think that the mid-week shopping in the end will wind up lowering my overall groceries. And it's not like I'm not running to these stores mid-week to pick up things we ran out of anyway.

[lvstephanie]

I just saw the show for the first time last night. That was really amazing; I saw the one where the woman got $600 worth of groceries for only $6. Some of the things I could actually see... For some vitamins that were on clearance, she had a coupon that took off more than the price of the vitamins, so she actually made money by purchasing the item; so even where she not to use the vitamins, it'd still be worth it to "purchase" the item in order to make money!

I've actually done a little "extreme couponing" myself... The store that I shop at will sometimes have large appliances for sale and if you purchase the item, the store will give you at least the purchase price worth of coupons. So I've done this twice: once for a small chest freezer and the second time for a new grill. Each time I was really looking to buy the major item, so when the store had this offer, I jumped at the chance. The first time I was a little afraid that the coupons that I'd get would be like a BOGO coupon, so I'd have to spend even more money to get the savings, but it turned out that none of the coupons were like that. Most coupons gave you the item for free (without needing to make any additional purchase) or the coupon would have a large savings that combined with the store's sale price that week, the cost was free or very close to it. Also almost all of the items were something I'd use, tho I may not normally have purchased were it not for the coupon (eg some pre-sliced ham was normally more expensive than just getting a half-a-ham and having the deli slice it for me, but because I had the coupon for the pre-sliced ham, I purchased that instead)...

And one time I actually made money by shopping... There was a store that had AA batteries on sale with a mail-in refund that made the total cost $0 (limit of 3 packs). I also had a coupon for $0.50 off a pack of batteries (limit of 6 packs). So I ended up getting 3 packs of batteries and actually made $1.50 in the process! I was surprised that neither coupon nor refund had a statement like "not valid with other offers"; I was so sure that I wouldn't get the refund check because for some technicality that would disallow it, but the check did come, and I happily pocketed the $1.50! I've heard that sometimes after holidays or on Black Friday / Cyber Monday you can sometimes do something similar and make money on the clearance / sales priced items.

[bubba9052]

yea ive watched that show and its amazing how much you can save with coupons but i could never save up that many coupons and that would be kinda embarassing to have to hold up the line like them people do

[ejholt]

I saw the show last week and boy did they have a lot of stuff.  One family said they had enouht on hand to feed them for 3 years.  Seem like some of the stuff would go bad before they used it all up.   I have a friend that does that with health and beauty aid and other non food items and then about once a year has a yard sale.  She makes good on that.

[sommap]

I saved over $47 at Target yesterday between coupons and their 5% off Visa Red card.  I did spend $100, but wasn't going for just a coupon savings trip. 

These shows have to be scripted.  What store has over 60 containers of mustard or 200 toothbrushes on stock. 

[angie828]

I have not seen this show. I use coupons but I do not go crazy over them.  And if I have a coupon does not mean I will buy something just because I can save.  I only buy the products that I use.

[mgint]

saw the ad for the show but haven't watched it yet.

[thetotalfool]

I don't watch it, because my mom is a compulsive hoarder, and just the ads for it remind me of how she shops.  She never uses the excess stuff, and then gets mad when it goes bad and has to be thrown away.