Extreme couponing
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Wenchy
Hot Flash
Hoarders.
Pete
Repete
It's friggin insane. One woman had 100 bags of cat treats, then she looks at the camera, smirks and says "I don't even have a cat
" Over 1,200 packs of batteries? The damn things will discharge before she could ever use them.One woman got $2,300 worth of what basically looked like Mallox and noodle bowls for 34 cents.
sockgirl77
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If you have the room for it and plan to use it, then why not? I got my BJ's total from $498 down to $217 by using coupons and buying stuff that was on sale a month ago. My receipt was 3 feet long. I was so proud of myself. The economy sucks.
Also, alot of the people on that show donate their overstock to various charities and/or family members.
Also, alot of the people on that show donate their overstock to various charities and/or family members.
Wenchy
Hot Flash
It's friggin insane. One woman had 100 bags of cat treats, then she looks at the camera, smirks and says "I don't even have a cat
One woman got $2,300 worth of what basically looked like Mallox and noodle bowls for 34 cents.
If they donate these items they are doing the community a service. Every cat needs treats and the soup kitchens could use noodle bowls. Sockgirl would like the batteries.
sockgirl77
Well-Known Member
For many reasons. One is that my kids have tons of battery operated toys. You'd be surprised at how quickly we go thru batteries.
Pete
Repete
If it is something you use or would use I can see it but it seems the tactic is to find some item they can get credit on because of coupon combinations and buy a bazilion of it then use the credit to buy what they want. Then they have 700 bottles of vitamins with extra calcium they have no need for.
Hank
my war
bcp
In My Opinion
Do they ever ask why their batteries keep disappearing?
sockgirl77
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glhs837
Power with Control
mmhmmm...
chick show
Everyone should watch 10-15 minutes of this, simply as an insight into people and how far they can take a thing. I watched a woman whos stay at home hubby spent 6-8 hours ( a full days work, you will note) finding and clipping and organizing coupons. then he and her spent another 6 hours or more organizing the battle plan. And then an hour or more shopping, and an hour or so in checkout, and then more because here total items exceeded the max in one transaction, so they had to split. (Oh, and the grocery store lost an hour or more to this, and a managers time to sort out the max item thing)
Then they get home with 100 bottle of hot sauce to add to the 300 in inventory, and start putting away stuff in the 4 freezers and 3 fridges in the garage.
I just cant imagine if you added the time spent, and the cost of running those appliances, it comes out right. Oh, and the cost of the square footage to store all this stuff. It almost seems like a family taking turns on a treadmill hooked to a generator to cut down the electric bill
Pete
Repete
Of course a lot of those people go in and haul $1,000 worth of stuff for 13 cents then turn around and give most of it to charity, but really. It is also probably just a handful of people doing it to that extreme, but what happens when the manufacturers just quit giving out coupons and kill the whole thing?
sockgirl77
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My "power tool" only requires 3 AA's.
frequentflier
happy to be living
I could only stomach 15 minutes of it. It seemed to me, the lady I watched was totally obsessed with it and made her kids sit there and clip coupons as well. The kids didn't look too thrilled.
She went to the store and one of her purchases was many containers of mustard. My guess is that it would go bad before they got around to using it; even if they used a whole jar a month. If she had donated it to a soup kitchen or something, it would have been cool but it showed her loading up her already packed full cupboards.
Another purchase was some lipstick that was on clearance and the lady had coupons. She told the cashier behind the counter to just dump every one of them in a basket. Didn't look at the colors. Just give them all to me because they're free. What in the hell did she need 20 or 30 lipsticks for?
She jokingly made a comment about feeling like she was stealing from the store. Maybe not stealing but like in the case of the lipsticks, I would say she was cheating someone else out on the opportunity to buy a product they will actually use for a discounted price even w/o a coupon.
I would guess the grocery stores hate to see these extreme couponers come in. It's one thing if you actually need the stuff but my opinion is most of the people do it for the thrill of getting something *free.*
desertrat
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While they are at the lake waiting for Dowhat and BOZ to show up they can feed the ducks!
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