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did anyone see Extreme Couponing on TLC?
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their savings were incredible but i couldn't get over the volume of CRAP food they were buying. 40 jars of Ragu? 120 boxes of Barilla? cases of ramen?
i love a good deal too but there is NO WAY it's worth saving a few bucks when it means you're ingesting buckets of pasta and a pasta sauce that provides 20% of your daily sodium intake in one serving.
AND
there was one lady who had 135 years worth of toilet paper? 40 years of deodorant? who needs that? what these people need is HELP.
Re: did anyone see Extreme Couponing on TLC?
Mr. Sammy Dog
Ok, that looks crazy! Is one of the pictures of a lady searching through a dumpster?!
I would love to be more coupon savvy, but I agree, not at the expense of my health!
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I am usually a lurker, but I had to comment....YES, I saw that show and I was completely enthralled (but not necessarily in a good way). I still don't understand how they end up paying only $50 for $1000 in products and am a little amazed by that, but mostly - I was thinking to myself "these people need help for this." How can you spend 70 hours a week on couponing when you are married and have a job? You take your son with you to the dumpster to look for thrown away coupon circulars? Mostly, though - I was disgusted at all of the crap that they have in their homes? I mean, good for you to have 40 years worth of toilet paper stockpiled....but are you actually going to use it? Hundreds of bottles of soda and hundreds of candy bars??? Great - good for you, but do you even drink soda and want all those candy bars??? What a freakin' waste.
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It's just organized hoarding.
Funny, I was flipping through the channels last night and saw the title and thought it was an infomercial! So I didn't see it either.
I try to use coupons and shop sales as much as possible, but a lot of times the coupons are for food items are packaged processed foods we don't typically eat. I'm not a food snob, but I am not going to buy junk just because it's cheap.
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Yep, I watched it.
That was insane. Like other pps said, I love a deal, I'll shop with coupons but I am NOT going to be digging through garbages or denying time with my Husband just to coupon and get things for free.
I had the biggest problem with the first woman, Amanda. Like myself, she was overweight. If she spent as much time on exercise as she spends on couponing... wow! Like I said, I am overweight too, but I don't spend hours and hours tracking down coupons. She was buying those prepackaged noodle things and I think she bought 152 candy bars. You know, the kind that are at the checkouts. OMG. Even if she does exercise or she's trying to diet, how could you resist the temptation of 152 candy bars in your pantry? She bought full calorie, full sugar pop by the crate. Even if it was Diet pop, two people do NOT need that much pop.
The second woman seemed normal. She has a website that she runs with another woman. Krazy Coupon Lady. She seemed normal until she went to the dumpster just to find more coupons.
I'll stock up on stuff if it's a good deal and it's something we use regularly, but just getting stuff for free because it's free? No way.
The one Husband..I can't remember which said they have some thousands of dollars insurance policy JUST on their stockpile.
Yikes.
There was a lady digging in a dumpster for discarded coupons? Now that's a little nutty. Actually, that's a lot of nutty.
Sounds like a shopping addiction / hoarding problem to me.
Do these people not buy fresh produce or meats? Because there aren't usually coupons for those things.
And it seems to me like the probably live in way bigger houses than they need, just to have space to store the insane amount of stuff they buy. Maybe they could save more money by just living in a smaller house rather than just couponing to save enough money to live in a house big enough to store their hoards of paper goods and pantry items.
Mr. Sammy Dog
well, they were newspaper only recycling dumpsters but still...
only one lady bought fresh stuff that i saw but the last guy mentioned getting some fruit and things (and his total on that bill was $52 so that could make sense).
the first lady had 1 entire room dedicated and was overtaking her husband's "man cave". he seemed torn between loving his wife (and therefore supporting/helping her couponing) and being upset that there was no time for them/trashing his man cave.
i think all of them spent over 40 hours a week couponing.
as to expired foods, only one of them mentioned rotating their stock and only stocking up on 3 months worth at a time. the rest just seemed blinded by the good deal.
the last guy got 1100 boxes of Total cereal for $150 and said he planned to donate it to the food shelf. good for him i guess but jebus, he had to special order that quantity from the grocer AND bring a trailer to get it home.
one last thing. the first lady spent $70 on her coupons online and they didn't include that amount in her total which kinda bugged me. they said she got everything for like $50 but really, it was $120. still a great deal but don't leave parts of the story out. not everyone can afford that extra $70 outlay on the front end.
Did he own the trailer? I'd think the expense would negate any savings from the coupons.
Whatever happened to just buying what you need?
I caught the 2nd half of the show. It was fascinating in a creepy way!
I understand that these people get their kicks finding amazing deals and getting free products...BUT...when you have 6,000 deoderant sticks and 100 years of hand soap piled up in your garage then it's gone waaaaaay too far. The last guy said they had 60K-70K stockpiled in their garage and they paid about 1k for it. Great. Donate it. There are probably plenty of people who would love some free deodorant. That last guy kind of creeped me out actually. He was practically foaming at the mouth while using his industrial sized cutting board as he went through his mounds of coupons.
I can respect someone who clips a few coupons and saves some bucks for their family but these people have gone waaaaay over the edge into the realm of "sickness". It's an addiction no doubt. I bet if you asked them to stop they would break down and not be able to do it without serious help.