Have you seen the show "extreme couponing"?

[mawhite63]

CouponMom is a good place to find all the freebies each week. This week at Walgreens looks amazing -- over $40 in free items if you have the right coupons

[twol]

Yes I saw one episode, and it was pretty freaky. It seemed like an obsession for all of them. The "stock piles" were laughable- did you see all the toothpaste that one guy had?! Is he going to use all of it? No. They also bought complete crap that other people would never buy in the first place. The only people on the show that I liked were the ones that donated to charities and the military.

[princess_kiki_84]

I have a love hate relationship with the show, I really think that their savings are over exaggerated. Many of the people admit to purchasing the coupons online or printing them at home, but that cost isn't figured into the equations at the end of the show. If you think about someone getting 50 free sticks of deodorant, but it cost them a $30 printer cartridge to print all the coupons then  the deodorant isn't completely free. Without a doubt they are still getting a phenomenal deal but they should consider all costs at the end of the show when they give you the final amount of savings. And the time these people invest in finding, cutting and organizing the coupons is absurd, in my opinion.

[vsyms613]

its possible to use double coupons on items that are 'sale' and the total could actually go negative in which the store usually just does not give any money but all your items were free.

[PMZ908]

I don't need coupons now that I get $200 Walmart cards for free.

how did u manage that?

[javadog597]

I have seen the show and have only seen 2 people do some good with what they get; the buy truck loads of stuff and keep what they need and then they give the rest to food shelves and charities!!!

[edominik]

I love it!   I wish my wife had a bit more tendency for this.....   Her idea of extreme couponing is believing the BOGO deal at the store is a good deal!

[mawhite63]

I love it!   I wish my wife had a bit more tendency for this.....   Her idea of extreme couponing is believing the BOGO deal at the store is a good deal!

Well, it is! Free is free Add them all up at the end of the year, and that's a good savings, especially the Walgreens and RiteAid BOGOs

You could help shop with her, and start the coupon book. Once you get started, it's very addictive

[dexterjrh]

I love to clip coupons, weather i have money or not. More money i can save makes me very happy. That show is funny though, one girl got in the recycle bin to search for coupons. too much lol

[Thumper18]

Its a great show. The stock piling did throw me off tho. I figured like damn if I can go to the store and get $200 worth of groceries for $10 I'd be happy enough with that lol. But they have stock piles of stuff that they'll probably never use in their lifetime. Alot of the stuff could be donated. I did see one gentleman on the show that donated like 200/300 boxes of cereal to a shelter. That i thought was a great thing to do.

[radhika28]

I watched the show every weekly,its a great show me and my husband got amazed with the people doing extreme couponing.I also love to use coupons but not up to that extreme

[AMBER6446]

yes its pretty crazy what they do but hey i would love to get stuff for pretty much nothing!

[PMZ908]

yeah its pretty cool but looks like way to much work and time

[waterbottle]

yes i have seen the show it come on here every wednesday and i like it i like look at the show.

[shepherdchik]

I think that using coupons is a great idea and you can get some good deals and stuff for free once in a while but because of that show stores are changing their policies and normal people that use coupons every day are going to suffer because of it. I think it's a little ridiculous that these people hoard these products and will probably never use them all in their lifetime. A lot of the products they get for free are processed foods, not a lot of fresh or even frozen foods, which would be a lot healthier.
If they get this stuff for free like that they should donate it to shelters and places that need things like that, that would be more useful. i think the one guy on the show did that and it was nice to know he was helping out.
I use coupons but I could never devote time like that to it. I'm happy to get my $.50 off on a product i know I will use or need