Extreme couponing. I don't see how they do it.

I suspected that some of this might be phoney. AFter all, you can't believe everything you see on tv.

Exactly, here there are so many limits, I'd never be able to do it like they show. I'm glad that people can't clear the shelves tho, I'd like stuff when I go shopping to be there. We have reasonable limits like: "Limit 3 or limit 6" So one person doesn't buy everything and no one else can buy anything.

it can be done to a point but not the way they do it , i mean if they are going to show something like that they should do it the real way with the same rules as everyone else show everyday couponers doing it not couponers that have to have stores change rules to make it work it makes people beilieve that its ok to clear shelves and get 100's of things for free yes you can get things for free i do all the time but come on they make it so hard for people that need to use coupons to help feed their family do that because the stores are limiting the amount of coupons that can be used .

Where I live, some stores have a sign that they don't accept printed internet coupons. Our ink is $20 to $40 a cartridge. Black is cheapest, but often the coupons aren't all black. Not sure how many coupons I could get from one cartridge. We don't have coupons for meat, maybe some deli stuff that is full of nitrates and salt that I can't have. If it works for both of you, great. For me, I'll stick with the newspaper ones.

i save a lot more than what i spend on ink infact my food budget is $300.00 a month and i get meat and everything and stay under that most of the time so for me to print them is worth it and i have a family of 6

Anyone else want to help me explain this? Did I miss or forget anything?

Good job stringer 321

I know something about coupons , those can give you some discount on a product that you may buy. The question is how much you paid for the coupon : My mom bought me coupons to use in stores like supermarket and coupon for a Castro store (Castro is a company that makes clothes like shirts and jeans...). The thing is , the coupon is like money but some deals require you to buy with cash :For example , if there is a deal that requires you to buy goods and spend up to 200 shekels (shekel is an israeli money unit , about 1/3 to 1/4 of the dollar) , some products become half price after that. That sounds like a nice deal but if you used coupons for the 200 shekels , the deal is not valid. You have to pay with money. Using coupons from the newspaper can be good because you didn't pay much for them , but make sure there are no any products that are also cheap even without coupons. Btw , I just read about coupons and in the wikipedia , it sounds like an extreme sport , lol. There is even a tv series about extreme couponing. It is good to promote the awareness of how to save money and still get the products.

Maybe, we just have so many restrictions here that I can't see it working. Many of our coupons say do not double and some of our stores just won't double. Yes, I've done well with coupons on occasion, but not very often.

Not everywhere in the states, we have lots of rules against some aspects of extreme couponing in NY where I am. But we can use a coupon and the item is on sale. So once in a while, I have gotten a dollar item for 10 cents or something, but nothing like the extreme stuff I see on tv.

Yes, I know the feeling. Some weeks it's all stuff I don't care if I ever buy. Some of it is stuff that has lots of food coloring or garbage in it, etc. Thanks and takae care.

Interesting. How have the extremers ruined it for the rest of us?

A lot of the coupons we get are for things we don't use, too. Here, and I am in America, but there are 50 states and lots of differences amoung them, there are limits on lots of couponing, so I'm not sure how we could even do it here. If a person is out of work and has no possibility of getting work, the extreme couponing would be there job because it certainly does look like one. But I don't think I could keep it up if I had a job. You've made similar observations to me. All their time and hoping it works out. Thanks and take care.

Same here, the stores have lots of rules that would prevent extreme couponing to work like I see on tv. Once in a great while, we can get a good deal, but not very many. Not entire carts full. The triple weeks must be wild. I don't envy you.

I wonder if that show is kind of dramatized you know? I've watched one or two episodes and it seems to me they go to big department stores. I'm not sure if coupons are even allowed in those types of stores, but I guess so. Either way those couponers also seem to waste money by getting things that they'll never use.

We have one store that has a big sign, "No computer print out coupons, only our coupons from newpaper ciruclars." I wonder about those shows, too. Is it real? Part of probably why I made this discussion. I liked one couple who do it once a month and give the stuff away to a different charity each month. They can't afford to donate to a charity without the extreme couponing. That would be cool for animal shelters if they could get a hundred dollars worth of stuff for hardly any money. They were doing it for mostly food shelves. I did see one family with like a hundred rolls of papertowels. Mice could have a great time with that. With all the stuff they had in the house, they'd never know they were overrun by mice until it wa too late.

300 for 70 is quite the savings. I like the ones that do it for charity or their church in this case. The ones that hord and their house becames dangerous, I worry about. I saw one couple who would do it once a month for a different charity each month. They paid like $10 and supplied a lot of food for the charity.

I thought so. These ladies had their basements all set up with shelves and such. Nice and neat. Charity giving would be a good thing.