Gina
4-11-11, 12:52am
I'm just watching a program on extreme couponing on TLC (the learning channel). The shopper has 4 carts full of items, and is buying almost $2,000 worth of goods for $103.72. It took 2 hours to checkout. And a lot more pre-planning before going into the store - similar to a job. Another couponer had her 7 kids help her cut out and organize the coupons.
One woman got all of her coupons by having the newspaper give her all the extra flyers that did not go out in the sunday papers. Another gets 6-12 papers, the internet and store displays.
They showed the homes of a couple of these extreme couponers, and they looked like warehouses with closets, basements, under the beds, and even showerstalls absolutely over-flowing with hundreds of duplicates of papertowels, tp, bottles of mustard, shampoos, and the like. Not sure what one needs with all that stuff. Why buy it if all the stuff over-runs your life.
When I was doing couponing on a small scale, I found most of the coupons were not for things I actually wanted or used. I don't do much of it anymore - it wasn't worth my time.
One woman got all of her coupons by having the newspaper give her all the extra flyers that did not go out in the sunday papers. Another gets 6-12 papers, the internet and store displays.
They showed the homes of a couple of these extreme couponers, and they looked like warehouses with closets, basements, under the beds, and even showerstalls absolutely over-flowing with hundreds of duplicates of papertowels, tp, bottles of mustard, shampoos, and the like. Not sure what one needs with all that stuff. Why buy it if all the stuff over-runs your life.
When I was doing couponing on a small scale, I found most of the coupons were not for things I actually wanted or used. I don't do much of it anymore - it wasn't worth my time.