Extreme Couponing for CreamSoda

[wop]

I don't want to be behind her at the checkout counter for sure -_-
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Anyone here are coupon commandos? lol

[Dmitry]

That's nuts. Time to find me some coupons.

[Overburn]

I bet that would have taken a quarter the time if that cashier didn't have those stupid nails.

[Acturus]

My wife tries to coupon, and sometimes it works, but you've got to get this entire system of shopping down and be willing to stock up on 12 months worth of stuff to really make it work right.

Also, in Florida, few (if any) stores do that double coupon or triple coupon honoring, so a lot of what you see in those shows doesn't work in this state.

[Skyylya]

It looks like she lives in a nice house so it's tough to speculate if she's working or not. But if she spent 30 hours a week at a job she could probably afford those groceries and then some.

I admire her for doing that but god damn if I was stuck behind her in line i'd probably want to snap her neck.

[Firedemon]

I watched an episode where the dumb bitch bought like 200 dog food cans, and didn't even have a dog. That's cool you got em for 2 cents each or whatever, but is that shit necessary?

[Skyylya]

I watched an episode where the dumb bitch bought like 200 dog food cans, and didn't even have a dog. That's cool you got em for 2 cents each or whatever, but is that shit necessary?

I feed my dogs that white meat chicken in water or whatever at the grocery store. Publix just had a BOGO on them and they come with a coupon for 1$ off 3 cans, i bought like 2 months worth and probably saved like 75 bucks on dog food. megustaface.jpg

[Byrthnoth]

For some reason our supermarket doubles the value of any coupons under $1 automatically. I don't know why, but 0.75 coupons are worth more than $1 coupons.

[TacoTaru]

There was a write up I saw about what it takes to actually coupon like these people do and it's retarded. No fucking way I'd want to be the cashier checking out some guy buying 500 bottles of pepto just because they can get it all for $10 for 3+hours.

[aduidarnenye]

This kind of couponing isn't realistic for most people because of the amount of time it takes to do.

I think that reward card programs are much easier to do if you're pressed for time. The only problem with that is they want your email and phone number, which inevitably get sold to telemarketers.

[Franzer]

My gf and I have watched this a couple times, as she's really into using coupons, not to this extreme though. Honestly, the sheer amount of shit they get, just because they have a coupon bothers me so much. Seriously, 200 vitamin waters? 100 boxes of toothpaste? I watched one family that did it, and donated most of the excess that they got to homeless shelters and their church shelter, which is very commendable. Most of the people with their garage stock rooms full of shit just downright pisses me off though.

[popsiclestix]

Am I the only one that thought they were all obese? Man being in Japan for a year distorts your view lol....

[Cadsuane]

Sure is funny to laugh at the way poor people continue to find new and industrious ways to undermine their own dignity.

Like someone else said, the amount of time and convenience lost on this sort of thing doesn't surpass the savings unless you're a real waste of flesh and your opportunity cost of laying aside 30 hours a week is virtually nothing. Realistically though, you could be employed during that time, or take up a musical instrument, volunteer for a hospital or, you know, anything really.

[ronin sparthos]

The few times ive seen this show, it's fascinated me how much of a stockpile these people have. It's like a mini supermarket underneath some of these houses or in the garage and it begs the question of how much goes to waste.

Some of the couponers are stay at home moms with multiple children which makes the process technically a "job" due to all the hours you have to put in but on the other hand there have been individuals that are simply just obsessed with saving and stockpiling.

Hey, at least it's a hobby with practical application.

We know which houses to raid after the zombie apocalypse however. Fools.

[TsingTao]

My wife is a Coupon Ninja. She wanted to be a stay at home mom (so did I) but always felt bad she couldn't bring in some extra income to help with the bills. This is her compromise...she saves a metric ton on grocery bills. It's easily a part time job's worth of savings each month. $125 grocery trips for $38.75, trips to stock up on medicine or hygiene products with good sales where you get $80 worth of stuff for $10-$15 are regular occurrences. You should see her grin when she comes home with bags full of stuff that the stores actually pay her to take, it's awesome. It's definitely not for anyone that's pressed for time, but if you can invest a few hours each week the money you save is ridiculous.

No, you don't want to be behind her in line. She regularly gets shit from the cashiers because the final price is so low she must be cheating/stealing. It takes forever to explain things sometimes, and she regularly has to deal with a manager who explains why it's legit.

[Takedown3]

ok so 1) this isn't a new show it's been out for at least 2 years now. and 2) if you get stuck behind her and you are too dam retarded to move to another line then it's your own fault

my wife watches this show and unfortunately this isn't possible in Canada as there are some very fundamental differences between the way the US works at the state level in regards to groceries stores and their intense competition with each other. Most of these women do not work and are at home mothers living on their husbands salaries, doing this extreme coupon-ing saves them thousands of dollars a YEAR and many of them donate a large amount of the stuff they've gotten to charities and food banks. From what I've seen it takes hours and hours of preparation from going door to door stealing neighbors fliers and dumpster diving at local schools and businesses for thrown out papers to get those golden fliers.

[wop]

My wife is a Coupon Ninja. She wanted to be a stay at home mom (so did I) but always felt bad she couldn't bring in some extra income to help with the bills. This is her compromise...she saves a metric ton on grocery bills. It's easily a part time job's worth of savings each month. $125 grocery trips for $38.75, trips to stock up on medicine or hygiene products with good sales where you get $80 worth of stuff for $10-$15 are regular occurrences. You should see her grin when she comes home with bags full of stuff that the stores actually pay her to take, it's awesome. It's definitely not for anyone that's pressed for time, but if you can invest a few hours each week the money you save is ridiculous.

Your wife should get on the show.

[TsingTao]

Your wife should get on the show.

She wouldn't make the cut, she doesn't buy hundreds of anything at one time or spend anywhere near that many hours a week with her coupons. She's good, but she's not EXTREME.

[test123]

How the hell does stores make money? Do they rely on people coming with just 1 coupon and make some big purchases?

[Overburn]

How the hell does stores make money? Do they rely on people coming with just 1 coupon and make some big purchases?

The 99.9% of the customers who don't/won't do this?