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[SharkE]

I think it might be some kind of 'mental' thing when people get upset and mad when they pay 56 cents for 400.00 worth of food.  That's more of an obsession doesn't seem healthy.

I didn't pay any attention this morning when I was watching it on the Travel channel may had been old episodes , but, it was new to me. LOL

[SharkE]

This one gal spent 10 hrs. in the store and took more time to check out 3 carts worth of stuff and kept the busboys way busy when you buy 36 rolls of toliet paper, bounty towels, shampoo, etc.

just seems impossible and who wants to have all that supply of bologna ?

you would have to eat lunch meat for a month .

[Sooner]

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@kitcat51 wrote:

I don't clip coupons at all but if someone wants to take it to the extreme, good for them & it's none of my business what they do with the items. 

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@kitcat51 But is it right to grab it all and keep others from enjoying a benefit?  Isn't that wrong and isn't that all of our business?  When things affect us all, yes, it's our business.

[CelticCrafter]

Unless they are doing it to donate to a food bank or shelters I would venture to guess a whole lot of it gets thrown away because it's gone bad, rancid, stale, buggy.

There's something wrong with those people that are hoarding it.

[threecees]

Watch out for when they come shopping they may clean out close to half

of the store. I can not believe that there would not be any limit to purchasing

say 60 of one item. 

People like these shoppers make stores put strict rules with couponing into

effect. I do cut coupons, here and there anyway. Alot of them now say that

you can not purchase more then 4 of the same item at the same time.

A trip to the store and back that lasts so many hours, dragging in and sorting

all of that probably exhausts you for the day then you sit down for a meal and

then go to bed.

[SeaMaiden]

It is an  addiction like gambling... you get the same feeling as a WIN.  Like any addiction, it gives you pleasure at first... and then just spirals out of control. 

[sissel]

We stopped the newspaper but I download the coupons on my store's shoppers card, no more clipping but I have noticed that sometimes you have to buy 2 or 3 of the product and the expiration date on the coupon is only two weeks. I always check the weekly ad before I go shopping but I really don't know how much of a bargain I am getting. 

[Sweetbay magnolia]

After this show became popular, I noticed a decline in newspaper coupons (or so it seemed).

I do love getting $$$ off on things I would buy anyway (especially on sale!).  I wonder how much of the "free" stuff gets re-sold.

[chickenbutt]

I didn't know this show was back but all I remember from the handful of episodes I saw, a number of years ago, was that I would hope to never find myself behind one of these folks in line.   

I don't do thing on an excessive level so I do struggle to get it, but I remember seeing where some of them would make a warehouse out of their garage, the kids' rooms, etc, with more food than anybody could possibly consume.  Some of them purchased a lot of items that are quite perishable in super huge quantities and, for the ones who brought them home and didn't donate or somehow share them, I felt there was probably a lot of waste. 

[Porcelain]

I got into couponing for a bit, nothing too extreme. It was a good way to feel in control during a brief period when finances got tight. It took up a LOT of my time. I had an album where I sorted my coupons by category. I printed them off from online and wasted paper and printer ink. It was just a lot of work. And sometimes an extreme couponer had taken the coupon insert from my paper! Had to check each time I picked up the paper at the store.

Now I put coupons on our grocery cards with my phone when I think of it, just to get the free money -- which is all from the manufacturer's promotional budget not the store -- and don't stress about the rest.