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I've watched 3 episodes of this. Most of the people featured could definitely appear on Hoarders as well.
That being said, my girlfriend just got into stuff like this and we are saving money all over the place. I'd never have the time or the energy or the focus to keep up with all of this stuff.
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its a sick addiction of selfishly hoarding unneeded items with no regard for other consumers. It's a troubling compulsion that breeds nothing but fraud and abuse.
A friend of mine is going to give me a tutorial on couponing next week. What she does isn't extreme, she just buys stuff she needs or can use in the near future, but saves a good bit of money.
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lennytheweedwhacker wrote:
A friend of mine is going to give me a tutorial on couponing next week. What she does isn't extreme, she just buys stuff she needs or can use in the near future, but saves a good bit of money.
Using coupons, and couponing are totally different things.
A friend of mine is going to give me a tutorial on couponing next week. What she does isn't extreme, she just buys stuff she needs or can use in the near future, but saves a good bit of money.
Using coupons, and couponing are totally different things.
Yeah I guess I don't really know what "couponing" consists of.
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lennytheweedwhacker wrote:
Skitch Patterson wrote:
lennytheweedwhacker wrote:
A friend of mine is going to give me a tutorial on couponing next week. What she does isn't extreme, she just buys stuff she needs or can use in the near future, but saves a good bit of money.
Using coupons, and couponing are totally different things.
Yeah I guess I don't really know what "couponing" consists of.
A friend of mine is going to give me a tutorial on couponing next week. What she does isn't extreme, she just buys stuff she needs or can use in the near future, but saves a good bit of money.
Using coupons, and couponing are totally different things.
Yeah I guess I don't really know what "couponing" consists of.
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How is it fraud? To me it just seems like taking advantage of loopholes. Do you just not like having to deal with all those coupons at your place of work, Skitch Patterson?
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cutuphalfdead wrote:
How is it fraud? To me it just seems like taking advantage of loopholes. Do you just not like having to deal with all those coupons at your place of work, Skitch Patterson?
excessive couponers create multiple profiles to generate dozens and dozens of "one per customer" type coupons. They attempt to bury not applicable coupons in stacks of other coupons to try and use coupons that are not valid on their purchase. Those are the frauds i am talking about.
I dont mind the coupons, its the greedy nature of those that do it.
You will meet a woman who discovers that she can use a double coupon in order to obtain bottles of mustard for 39 cents a bottle. She has obtained 70 newspapers with 70 inserts containing 70 coupons (I dearly hope these people recycle like superfreaks), so she purchases 70 bottles of mustard.
She has three kids. If you assume a bottle of mustard holds twelve ounces, she has just purchased 840 ounces of mustard. One fluid ounce is two tablespoons, so let's say she has 1680 tablespoons, or 5040 teaspoons, of mustard. If every single member of her five-person family ate a teaspoon of mustard every single day of their lives, she would not need to buy mustard again for almost three years. If, on average, three members of her family eat mustard three times a week, which seems like it might be a more realistic estimate, she will not need mustard for ten years, at the end of which, remember, she will be eating ten-year-old mustard.
You will meet a woman who discovers that she can use a double coupon in order to obtain bottles of mustard for 39 cents a bottle. She has obtained 70 newspapers with 70 inserts containing 70 coupons (I dearly hope these people recycle like superfreaks), so she purchases 70 bottles of mustard.
She has three kids. If you assume a bottle of mustard holds twelve ounces, she has just purchased 840 ounces of mustard. One fluid ounce is two tablespoons, so let's say she has 1680 tablespoons, or 5040 teaspoons, of mustard. If every single member of her five-person family ate a teaspoon of mustard every single day of their lives, she would not need to buy mustard again for almost three years. If, on average, three members of her family eat mustard three times a week, which seems like it might be a more realistic estimate, she will not need mustard for ten years, at the end of which, remember, she will be eating ten-year-old mustard.
this is how they operate. I have a lady that comes in, buys the limit i set for her in the morning... and hides the rest throughout the store so she can come back when the night shift is there and buy it again. Her husband also does the same.
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target recently sent me a coupon for a free 2 liter of pepsi product. i went to target and walked out with a free two liter of mountain dew. didnt spend a single cent. on the way home i started to wonder....
my old apartment complex which is about and 1/8th of a mile from my house has a massive recycle bin by their mailboxes. a simple 5 min search yielded a massive stack of these coupons. i now have a massive collection of pepsi and mountain dew at the house.
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Charlie wrote:
target recently sent me a coupon for a free 2 liter of pepsi product. i went to target and walked out with a free two liter of mountain dew. didnt spend a single cent. on the way home i started to wonder....
my old apartment complex which is about and 1/8th of a mile from my house has a massive recycle bin by their mailboxes. a simple 5 min search yielded a massive stack of these coupons. i now have a massive collection of pepsi and mountain dew at the house.
is this an example of extreme couponing??
Its a little weird that you went through the garbage for mt. dew coupons.
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Skitch Patterson wrote:
Charlie wrote:
target recently sent me a coupon for a free 2 liter of pepsi product. i went to target and walked out with a free two liter of mountain dew. didnt spend a single cent. on the way home i started to wonder....
my old apartment complex which is about and 1/8th of a mile from my house has a massive recycle bin by their mailboxes. a simple 5 min search yielded a massive stack of these coupons. i now have a massive collection of pepsi and mountain dew at the house.
is this an example of extreme couponing??
Its a little weird that you went through the garbage for mt. dew coupons.
recycle bin. massive difference. the garbage next to it is full of dog shit.
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Charlie wrote:
Skitch Patterson wrote:
Charlie wrote:
target recently sent me a coupon for a free 2 liter of pepsi product. i went to target and walked out with a free two liter of mountain dew. didnt spend a single cent. on the way home i started to wonder....
my old apartment complex which is about and 1/8th of a mile from my house has a massive recycle bin by their mailboxes. a simple 5 min search yielded a massive stack of these coupons. i now have a massive collection of pepsi and mountain dew at the house.
is this an example of extreme couponing??
Its a little weird that you went through the garbage for mt. dew coupons.
recycle bin. massive difference. the garbage next to it is full of dog shit.
still garbage, just cleaner. No. what you did is not extreme coupon. You got a coupon for a product you wanted, would have otherwise bought, and in all likelyhood, did not run the risk of getting all the mountain dew you could, just because it was free.
An example. A product in our store often has a "buy one get one free" sale. This is a product that even if used every day, would likely last you 3-6 months and does not expire. there are also occasionally "buy one get one free" coupons available in the paper. Extreme Couponers will often use this combination to get 2 free. They then buy as many as any given store will let them. And then donate them to charities. If the charity had any want or need for this product, they could come take advantage of the same sale. It is a complusion to say "i got $50 worth of stuff for $1.12!!!!
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