Extreme couponing?

[SouthernSVT]

I would feel like such a cheap ass that I would probably be too embarresed to actually do it.

[8mpg]

While not extreme, the girlfriend and I did the Walgreens and CVS deals. Buy a double paper or two on the weekend and spent 30 minutes clipping. We saved a shit ton of money, stocked up on enough toilet paper and shampoo for a couple years for next to nothing. Its kinda fun when you get into it.

My cousin just dropped off 8 boxes of Vicks sinus medicine. The walgreens deal this week was a $6 PROFIT. He got all the meds for FREE and make $6 in Walgreens bucks.

[fst_stng]

While not extreme, the girlfriend and I did the Walgreens and CVS deals. Buy a double paper or two on the weekend and spent 30 minutes clipping. We saved a shit ton of money, stocked up on enough toilet paper and shampoo for a couple years for next to nothing. Its kinda fun when you get into it.

My cousin just dropped off 8 boxes of Vicks sinus medicine. The walgreens deal this week was a $6 PROFIT. He got all the meds for FREE and make $6 in Walgreens bucks.

Shhhh! Dont say your cousin got something for free + made a profit off a corporate giant. Three finger pete and Bcoop might be policing this thread looking for " thiefs".

[94form2000z]

Shhhh! Dont say your cousin got something for free + made a profit off a corporate giant. Three finger pete and Bcoop might be policing this thread looking for " thiefs".

LMAO! Shit I'll pull out a BOGO coupon at a nice restaurant on a first date. She don't like it, I don't give a damn. haha

[ThreeFingerPete]

Shhhh! Dont say your cousin got something for free + made a profit off a corporate giant. Three finger pete and Bcoop might be policing this thread looking for " thiefs".

Suck my cock.

[Mike]

My wife is heavily networked in the couponing world. She has a stuffed 3" binder with everything categorized in sleeves for baseball cards. I've seen her work crap at CVS (her biggest victim) with around $100 worth of stuff to walking out paying nothing with cash AND gaining several CVS bucks for a future purchase. It's funny to watch the employees gather around the cashier to see what is coming up.

She mainly does CVS, Walgreens and Albertsons.The most impressive was just about a year ago when the total at Albertsons was $272 and something in change and she paid $80 even.

At first, it took up a lot of her time, but once she got on several email lists and facebook groups, it's literally a couple hours a week. She has held classes for it at church and showed several of her friends. Most yeild similar results.

That must be like the coupon setup of choice, I laughed my ass off when my wife was out buying "supplies" for couponing. It's crazy how quickly that became one of her hobbies.

[SMKR]

what are these facebook groups, forums etc to get a newb started?

[mstng86]

I don't mind when someone uses a shit ton of coupons and price matching. If someone takes the time to do the research and put it all together, good for them.

But for everyone elses sake, don't do it on the day before Christmas, at the busiest time of the day.

I was behind a woman for 45 minutes with 2 carts full of food, with three or 4 different store adds for price matching. And 90% of her items were off those adds.

Sure, it is your right to save money, but stop waisting other peoples time.

[Darren M]

That shit is crazy, I don't see how people can do it. I know when I worked at a grocery store when I was 16 I wanted to kill people who had a ton of coupons.

Depending upon when you were 16 it may have been much more of a process than it is now. Today one simply gives the cashier a stack of bar coded coupons and they scan them through quite quickly. If the codes work they're deducted, if not, you get the coupon back. My wife consistently takes 25+ coupons to the store and makes out KILLER!

The way it works is that you get the stuff that is on sale AND use the coupon-sometimes making the item free. Say something that is NORMALLY $2.00 is on sale for $.99 then you have a coupon that is worth $.50 BUT the store doubles up to that so now it's free. There were quite a few of those when I was doing it.

EXACTLY!

If they'd get real jobs they wouldn't have to be that jewish.

I assume you're speaking to the documentary only? If not, well we need to discuss the parameters of having a full time job. (I consider a stay at home mom a full time job.)

[OldGuysRule]

My daughters and I do this for the local food bank. Best haul... 48 boxes of Kellog's cereal for less than $5. All in all I'm guessing $600 worth of expense (we limit ourselves to $50 a month) a year plus time for well over $5,000 worth of food a year.

Good stuff.

[90GT50]

Depending upon when you were 16 it may have been much more of a process than it is now. Today one simply gives the cashier a stack of bar coded coupons and they scan them through quite quickly. If the codes work they're deducted, if not, you get the coupon back. My wife consistently takes 25+ coupons to the store and makes out KILLER!

Yeah, most of them had bar codes, but at the grocery store I worked at most of the bar codes weren't in the system so we had to do about 75% of them manually.

[bcoop]

Shhhh! Dont say your cousin got something for free + made a profit off a corporate giant. Three finger pete and Bcoop might be policing this thread looking for " thiefs".

You're an ignorant sack of shit if you can't understand the difference between a coupon, and what he was doing. Not surprising though. You've never really been accused of being intelligent.

[grove rat]

i remember seeing a video where a lady got all her families groceries for the week for like 2 dollars and some change. that is pretty cool

the only coupons i clip are fast food buy one get on free

[Pur Vnm]

Caught this show last night about 4 people who did extreme couponing. People getting hundreds or even over a thousand dollars in groceries for little to nothing at all. Looked like some of it was just more hoarding. I did think it was neat that once guy would pass on some of his hauls to his church's food bank at least. I can't see hoarding some of that stuff. Anyone know anyone first hand that does this?

Not anymore; my mother used to prior to her death. She would clip coupons and go to stores like Kroger when they had douple and triple coupon payout days. She would catch things on sell get a bunch of them, and have the coupons doubled or tripled, then walk out of the store, with the store owing her money. She would do this for a few months, and then have a big ass Garage Sale. She could make $3000-$4000 in one weekend. Not a bad supplemental income!

She knew a newspaper carrier who would sell the coupon sections of the Sunday papers that didn't sell that week, for a quarter each. He only needed to turn in the headline page to get his money back, so it was definitely a win-win situation for everybody involved.

[fst_stng]

Suck my cock.

The only cock you and bcoop have is the one up yall's ass. Now go do what you do best and suck each other off.