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Discussion Boards => Off-Topic => Topic started by: joyroos18 on March 30, 2012, 11:51:53 pm
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what do you think about people that spend 40 hours or more getting coupons for stuff they have no place to put? i watch a show where they spend so much time getting coupons they dont have time for their kids unless of course they are clipping coupons with them, then when they get home not only is there no place to put the stuff, it would take them years and years to actually use it all. i think coupons are great, but i also think there is a reasonable use of them. hoarding stuff just because you get it free is only hurting your family, it is taking your time from them, it is taking room and storage they could use in your home, and from what i can tell it is making these people a nervous wreck at the register. i use coupons when i have them, but i do not need five years worth of bar-b-que sauce lol
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I agree, there needs to be balance. Nothing wrong with stocking up or finding a deal. When it consumes your life, its too much.
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I think it becomes some sort of sickness this hoarding. Some people say they developed the problem after growing up in poverty. Others say it was their life during the great depression. I know old folks who's houses are so full they can not use most of their homes, yet won't allow anything to be given away or thrown away. I stock up for the winter months but would have no use for 20-30 bottles of any one item. It better be cookies if I collect that many packages. lol :thumbsup:
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I'm not sure how these people are able to get stuff with coupons to the degree mentioned here. Personally I'm an avid coupon clipper. Every Sunday when I go to the local laundromat the owners give the the Sunday newspaper coupons. I have my oldest (when she has time) match the coupons up to the Jewel Circular. Everything can be taken to far but I honestly don't see how people can possibly spend 40 hours clipping coupons and looking for deals. I get overwhelmed with what I'm already doing.
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I love saving money with coupons and use them quite often for items I need or really want. More often I research Coupon Codes when buying things online. It takes only a few minutes and the savings can be quite substantial.
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Some of them donate stuff to food banks which seems like a worthwhile use. I definately use coupons more then I used to but I could never bring myself to spend the time and energy those people do.
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I am certain I know what show you are talking about, I think most of us do ;). I do like to clip coupons and save money. After the economy turned I had to go from having a full-time, well paying job, to working 30 hours a week and moving in with my parents. I do enjoy clipping coupons and saving money. I just do not have the time to spend that these people do to clip coupons and prepare for shopping trips. With working 30 hours, and then meeting up with friends, and doing other things. I just clip coupons and look at websites that give me match-ups when I can. Some weeks I do it, some weeks I do not. Luckily, we only get one Sunday paper, so I am not going to have 20 of the same coupons.
At work we match up with a foundation that helps battered women and their children for Christmas. So it was an amazing feeling to be able to donate things I had been able to save on or gotten for free to help them out. This past week there were some coupons to get some toys on sale, so I got some and look forward to being able to help out again this coming christmas!
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I would love to be a coupon hoarder, but I don't really have it in me to spend a whole day shopping at 6 different stores. Plus, every time I go to use a dang coupon, it's expired lol. Unless it was from a P&G pack, those are usually good for 2 years.
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I get two different Sunday papers and clip most of the coupons. The ones I don't use, go to a duaghter. I try to match up manufacturing coupons with store sales or coupons. Unfortunately, we do not have double coupons here. I have saved quite a bit of money with coupons and do have a stockpile, but it is nothing like the ones on that program.
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I do not use coupons very much, as most of the time they are for things that I do not ordinarily buy. Just to buy things because you have a coupon doesn't really make much sense to me.
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I don't think they think right due to hoarding being a type of brain in-balance. You should only clip/print what you know you will use each week/ month. Hoarding can happen very easly to anyone due to certain situations that can happen in peoples lives. A death, something violent just about anything tragic in someones life can start it. Just watch hoarders one night and it will make you take a look at your own self and situations and I guarentee you will start cleaning out. Have a great day. :cat:
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its totally a pain what i hear ... the stress have collecting so many :(
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I love clipping coupons to save money, although I don't consider myself a hoarder. Who's to say those people don't use all those products they buy. Like someone else said, there are people who coupon and donate food to shelters and food banks. As long as you're giving back, I don't see a problem.
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i would love to be like a coupon horder to , but i am not that organized at all , i have coupons and they are a big mess, i have to go threw them every week , its kind of a pain but worth the time
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I would love to be a coupon hoarder, but I don't really have it in me to spend a whole day shopping at 6 different stores. Plus, every time I go to use a dang coupon, it's expired lol. Unless it was from a P&G pack, those are usually good for 2 years.
I feel the same way, I would love to be hooked on coupons as long as I didnt have anything else to do I would be a shopping coupon junkie
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I use coupon to shop and at times I got comments from people, just trying to use coupon to save. Not a coupon hoarder who like to clean shalf and eat not too healthy food.
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I used to be more active with collecting coupons and saving UPC codes for buy one get one free offers. But then when companies wanted the grocery slips showing proof of purchase, as well as, the codes it became a problem keeping track of everything. Also was more fun when stores doubled the coupons, I saved a bundle. Now I am lucky just to find a few coupons on the products I buy on a regular basis.
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I do not know how these people can get a retailer to accept multiple coupons for the same item. Also, why do they allow them to split up orders, in order to abide by the one coupon per customer rule. This does not seem fair to the other customers if you ask me. I have come to the belief that these "reality" shows,are really just scripted , sitcoms. Too many of them are a distorted version of reality.
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what do you think about people that spend 40 hours or more getting coupons for stuff they have no place to put? i watch a show where they spend so much time getting coupons they dont have time for their kids unless of course they are clipping coupons with them, then when they get home not only is there no place to put the stuff, it would take them years and years to actually use it all. i think coupons are great, but i also think there is a reasonable use of them. hoarding stuff just because you get it free is only hurting your family, it is taking your time from them, it is taking room and storage they could use in your home, and from what i can tell it is making these people a nervous wreck at the register. i use coupons when i have them, but i do not need five years worth of bar-b-que sauce lol
I think it is ridiculous to spend 40 hours a week clipping coupons. Even a minimum wage job will earn you more than you will save stocking up on junk from the grocery store. I don't understand it.
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There is a difference between hoarders and extreme couponers that have a stockpile. If you watch both types of shows you'll see how the hoarders actually have a mental disease almost OCC in their behavior in wanting to save everything. Usually a hoarder's house is stuffed full with piles of random objects all over the place. They hold onto items without the intention of ever using the item (even if that is what they say). They usually have a fear that they will lose their possessions which is why they begin to hoard their items.
Couponer's stockpiles, on the other had, usually only have one room dedicated to their stockpile, and it is neatly organized by products and stacked on shelves. These couponers DO NOT hold on to their purchases indefinitely, as some posters seem to think, but rather are meticulous in purchasing only what they can use within the product's expiration date. Even some products that technically could be stored for longer periods of time (eg canned goods) are usually used within a reasonable period of time. Usually these couponers have studied the store's and manufacturer's specials and have figured out patterns in sales such that they will purchase only enough of a product to last them until the next sale for that product occurs. For example canned soups tend to go on sale during the winter esp. during the holidays. Thus couponers may create a stockpile of canned soups at the end of December to last them until the end of September when the soups go back on sale. You have to remember that couponers are doing this to save money, so there is a limit to how much they will spend on any one trip. Even "free" items usually have some cost associated with them, even if that's the time spent clipping those coupons or making the purchase. Therefore couponers won't make purchases of items they don't plan to use (unless they have decided ahead of time that their purchases are going to be donated to charity). It is a waste of time (and possibly money) to buy a bunch of cake mixes only to have to throw some away because they got old, or never actually used them all ever.
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I look through coupons and will use them every once in a while, but I notice that the coupons are usually only for name brand, more expensive items. If you look at the shelf labels and compare, you can usually save a lot more money by buying a less expensive brand or sometimes the store brand.
I do prefer some name brand items, like pasta sauce - I'll never switch to the store brand pasta sauce! But, for some items, like cleaning supplies, there's usually very little difference between the name brand and store brand. I guess if you're hooked on the name brands, coupons will be very useful, but I think sometimes just being a smart shopper can save you more, or buying in bulk when there's a good sale on something you like. But I'm just a casual couponer. :)
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It can become an addiction. Anything you do too much of can become an addiction.