"It Hurts Me to Pay Anything" Woman Is Addicted to Couponing | Extreme Couponing
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Desirae spends 60 hours a week couponing to save money on everything she buys. From dumpster diving to hours of online research, she wants to get the most amount of wares for the lowest price at the store.
She says she doesn't pay anything but she's pretty much given her life to it and that's quite a huge cost really.
No different than working a 60 hour a week job. For that week of work she actually made 1056$ the groceries were 1077 an she paid 21.26 that is nothing to sneeze at and some people don't make that in a month.
@@sherrypadilla6319 Probably works for many but personally I’d rather have the cash that I could do other things with than have a truck load of toothpaste and energy drinks.
@@Steelee3 lol great point, life is short, you spend 60 hours a week to warehouse stuff most households have very little use for especially in such quantities
@@sherrypadilla6319 She actually made nothing. She happens to only pay a small amount for groceries. Let's say she gets a full time job that actually makes her money. As long as she found a job that pays more than $1770 and she'd be adding money to their bank account. Not just saving.
Great outlook!
Let's have a moment of silence for the cashier's checking these people out.
That poor woman . She will hear beep beep beep all night i think
Poor her for doing her job
@@sweetdaydreamer8868 I think it's a lot more complex and detailed than just the regular checking someone through, plus from what I've seen it can take hours. I do feel for the cashiers and the people in the queue behind the couponers.
@@sweetdaydreamer8868 It's the "too long" in time that these people take to checkout while others wait and wait and wait. . . .
@@Steelee3 we have to verify everything and read everything. If coupon policy says no overage, that means hunting down everything and doing a price inquiry on everything and inputting the amount that comes up. Even worse when it's a limit item because then that's even more fun lol.
My family knew a lady down the street who was an extreme couponer, and she opened her home to allow a lot of the low income families to get food, toiletries, snacks, and drinks, etc. It really helped us so my parents could pay bills and not have to get as many groceries bc it was always in stock thanks to this sweet lady.
Wow that woman is a saint 😁
That’s so lovely! 🥰🥰🥰
That's the nicest thing I've read today. What a star.
Wow that's so generous of her. Hopefully one day she gets repaid with her kindness
Oh how kind, bless her ❤
That dumpster she crawled into was the cleanest dumpster I've ever seen in my life.
It’s a recycling bin so just paper
There was already a ladder there when she stepped into the bin. Either she put it there or production did.
Imagine it’s your first day working at that grocery store as a cashier and this is your first customer
😊😊😊😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Could never be me
It's something to learn. Usually they don't throw you in alone on your first day. You'll have someone helping you. It is annoying though.
I lolled 😂
Or if you have one item and have to wait behind her 🤮
she worked for 60 hrs for about $1057... that's less than $18/hr and she's not even paid in $$$, she's paid in sugar, processed food and chemicals. I hope she has medical insurance.
She had a blog, Coupon Diva, as shown in the video, which likely generated income for her as well
Ha I did the same thing as you- calculated the equivalent pay. Let would be more like $12/hr cause 20hrs is overtime.
I know, not to mention that she's holding up the line. I've seen people like her and I saw one woman who had so many coupons that it's overloaded the system and they threw her out.
I don´t know how much rent she pays... Where I live a spare bedroom would cost 300-600€ per month (!)... If it would cost me 450€, I would have to calculate another 100€/week only for the storage space of all that stuff...
Then the car-driving and the time she is missing out with her kid(s) :(
I would rather live paycheck to paycheck than neglecting my child over couponing...
Let’s say spend 300$ week on groceries and would could invest the remaining 700$. That’s 33000 a year that she could invest. Let’s say her her investment are at 4%…
it's people like her that are the reason for coupons now having a limit of 1 per product
that means she's living paycheck to paycheck again then
Right. This isnt even possible at stores.
Limit of 1 per ‘product’ is per item. Limit of 1 per ‘transaction’ is different.
So how does she keep up house work
Yeah, this is nearly impossible in the U.S. now because of people like her. My grandmother used to get a few free items each week from "rebates" but now most companies don't even do that anymore.
Has anybody noticed the food she saved money on is either processed or ultra-processed? They simply don't make coupons for fruits, vegetables, dried lentils, or dried legumes. Also, correlate that knowledge with the fact that she looks much older than a 24-year-old woman.
I was just thinking much the same. I wouldn't eat anything she bought and I'm 60 and healthy. She's going to pay for that addiction with her health, sadly, like all addictions.
Maybe it's because she has a child as well, it's really stressful
@@justagirl8757 Food choices affect your health and cause stress.
I was just saying that
I wonder if she knows that she can donate a portion of her savings to charity. A thousand dollars of grocery items for only $21.00. Not too mention her stockpile of grocery's.
Honestly I would love to see someone that does this and donates a large portion to those who need it. It's work but she got 1,000 worth of stuff for 20ish bucks!
I coupon .... almost extreme..... and yes ..... I donate LOTS..... I put a lot of hours into it but how do you say no to free when there’s so many in need ?
@@patsybensend3468 thank you so much for sharing and helping others instead of hoarding.
I saw a video about someone who couponed to donate. I don't remember where I saw it.
Yea 150 deodorants will expire before she can use them up so why not donate.. if not, i think it's better to invest that time into earning money which we can use to buy anything we want instead of hoarding the same type of products
She Got It For 50 cent
That poor cashier that rang up the 3 carts full of food AND did different transactions. She deserves a raise.
I used to be a cashier and if I saw that coming toward me, I would turn off my light and go home.
She’s literally on T.V. if she wasn’t on camera then that’s a different story plus this is staged and written by TLC directors
@@coffeelink943 for sure. They don’t allow that many carts per customer as well as that many coupons lol. It’s just for the television.
Why??? She's scanning and punching the same amount of buttons whether it's one big order or 50 normal size orders, paid by the hour.
@@spar0035 unless she's being paid $18/hr she's being underpaid for her work.
The thing is, she doesn‘t save as much money as she thinks she is. It’s a lot of stuff she wouldn’t normally buy, and just does because she has a coupon for it, that is then rotting in her pantry. I think it’s a mental thing more than anything else at this point.
Same thought. Isn't it like an obsessive or hoarding personality disorder of some sort. I like to have a few extra items in the house but not to this level.
@@ilovericelol right
Kinda like food hoarding.
Most coupons I find are for processed foods that I wouldn’t buy anyway.
@@linhaton4957 mhm
As a former target and Walgreens cashier, I feel the cashiers pain.
Same😭
Heavy on the Walgreens part I will say we had one really amazing coupon lady that was so sweet and never got upset when a coupon didn't work and would end up giving workers on the shift at the time products from her coupon haul
yess I worked at Walgreens too, their coupons are insane though! Did you know they lose money on the grocery items? They only make money from the pharmacy.
20 boxes of toothpaste
28 boxes of tissues
45 boxes of cake and cookie mix
59 packages of candy
96 bottled beverages
Sounds like some great and healthy meals.
Well, she is overweight & does not look like she gets much exercise - if she eats the stuff she gets free with coupons, it is usually processed, unhealthy food.
Yes super healthy. Diabetes and obesity are on their way
59 packages of candy!? wow thats really unhealthy..
The 160 candy and coyote beverages are probably only like 1$-$2 each. Toothpaste is only like $2-$3 each also. So like where is the $1000 coming from? Makes no sense.
Mmmm toothpaste
This isn’t about saving money for groceries. This is just another addiction.
You could just work for 60 hours….
@@franticrushz8442 and the layers of the veil being to fall, pick your poison
they all said they did
@@franticrushz8442 exacltly working 60 hours would make you far more money than couponing
@@franticrushz8442do you guys in the USA work 60 house? I ve never heard someone doing that...that's like life in prison😢
So we’re just going to skim over that desirae is 24 YEARS OLD?!! I really thought she was a full 40 year old mum
Lol especially with the glasses
My thoughts exactly I thought I was the only one 😳
@@joe-op2gr Ok? What's your point?
@@armand-bk2vb ?
@@armand-bk2vb ??
With her skills, she can contribute to the world in a much better way!
She could donate this stuff
Not her responsibility.
@@hecutsdown91 its not about saving, its about sending a meassge
She wants 101 deodorants!!!!!
@@bielaggsshe does, she mentioned that she donates when she needs more space
This sounds great if you plan on living off cake mix with Powerade and toothpaste.
Look at her stock. Do you seriously think that's all she has? Besides, if she doesn't pay for shampoo etc then she has more money for meat.
Hey don't underestimate cake mix. I could eat that all day if I weren't healthy haha
Exactly
Right😅
Don’t forget about grocery rebate apps! So much more offers than cake mix and Powerade!
She does realize that even things that aren’t food do expire, right? She should definitely donate some of those items to homeless shelters before they expire.
literally like its such a waste and that stuff will probably stay on the shelf while she buys new stuff and uses that
No
She doesn’t have to do anything. What she does they can do too.
@@Emma-yg2uf I understand that, but she has a large supply of items that more than likely wont be used before they expire. Of course, she can keep them away until they do expire. She bought them, that's her choice. Or... she could also use her talents to help those less fortunate. I just think its wasteful to buy all that and not use it.
@@rqmennn mhm, especially all of the hygiene supplies since a lot of that stuff doesn’t get donated as regularly as food does.
It’s coupon hoarders like this that has destroyed couponing for the average shopper. Coupons now expire in under a month & you have to buy multiples. Another example of greed ruining things.
Mind your business, what's wrong with what's shes doing? R u jealous
@@Smileymorris07. oh yeah…..I’m sooooo jealous!
thats the fault of a broken capitalist system not poor people trying to get ahead..
right because billionaires hoarding wealth is so much better than a person using coupons...
@@temple69 we’re not talking about “billionaires”🙄I’m saying ordinary families having several printers, printing off coupons, dumpster diving, purchasing “hundreds” of items. I mean how many candy bars, sugary drinks & boxes of pasta does 1 family need? A lot of these people don’t even donate any of it. They just like the aesthetic & flex of having a grocery store in their basement. This is MY opinion.😏Greedy!!
I feel the most sympathy for anyone in line behind her.
"Sorry I won't make it back for dinner this week. I'll be in line at the grocery store for the next four and a half days"
That is amazing! Any homeless shelter or food bank would love a donation like that. She sure puts a lot of work into getting groceries.
But she’s greedy she won’t give unless she runs out of space
@@skhan3118 why dont you do it then.
@@ramonrodriguez8010 I do
For those 21 dollars she paid she could dig up a garden bed and actually eat healthy :( whats the use of all that cake mix and gatorade?
@@slagloken7698 she gets a high off of couponing.
"I'm never going to stink" *flops into dumpster*
😂
I thought that too!
I thought the same...now she NEEDS all of that soap!
😂
I remember I went into a dumpster, and I had the stink for weeks
Lol
Dude! Imagine if she had a job and worked 60 hours a week? I bet her and the hubby would be in a better financial situation?
Do what you love and you never work a day in your life.
better health as well..
But she is more happy doing this.
No average job allows you to spend 640€ a week. Be rational
I really enjoy it when the person donates their haul of enormous amounts of items that a person cannot use within the expiration date. That's heartwarming
This is a major addiction! A job at 60 hours per week can surely make you a great deal more money. This is an addiction not a way of saving money.
And a form of hoarding!
@@lunalea1250 I was going to say that we’re gonna see these people on Hoarders.
Was scrolling through the comments to see if someone would mention just what you said, as i was thinking the same thing watching this.
In America, a job at 60 hours per week will not necessarily pay her more. And she’ll have less freedom and likely report to someone who treats her poorly. Who knows.
@@sarahhartman5723 people have run the numbers - she's actually saving more $ doing this then she would working 60 hours min wage for sure. Gets to be her own boss and do what she enjoys. Leave her alone lol she isn't hurting anyone. Most spouses would LOVE their partner only spending $20/week on both their hobby and groceries, while also being home with the kiddo.
It gets ridiculous when she doesn't end up using all the products. That's when you know it's just an altered version of a shopping addiction.
I would donate a lot
Fr
She probably wastes less than you do.
@@buckaroobonzai2909 how can you think that when she has a whole room of products that expire.
I don't get why she doesn't barter them with her neighbors. Nobody needs 150 sticks of deodorant
Most places don’t take all this coupons anymore and a lot of people like her just turned around and sell everything full price and make money out of it, like my sister in law.
Only those that knows the rules can play the game 🤑🙊
🤣🤣🤣 gives up the sister in law
@@resurection96 it’s the truth!!!!!
I work!!!! She is on desability and scams the coupons and turns around and sells everything!!!!!
@@Marly123 it is scamming
She has a full store
With all the stuff she buys with coupons
She is on desability and not
Claiming this income
So yes it’s Scaming!!!!
@@e.s.92 shes still not scamming shes not in any way cheating people outta their money? literally search the meaning shes just using coupons to get products and sell them.
.55 for $640 worth of groceries? This woman is a legend
This woman does not have a life.
“She dedicated 60 hours each week”, why don’t she just get a job and buy groceries with the money from it 😂
Cause the world is expensive even with a job
I know her personally. This was at least 10 years ago or more. Now she doesn't coupon now and is a very famous business woman in my hometown area.
@@lg032580love to hear it
I’m glad to hear that! Her couponing life sounded so sad and empty.
@@lg032580can you help me learn english?
I used to look at coupons till I realized they were always for over-priced, overly-processed items. I never saw coupons for meat, vegetables, butter or flour. So she found a coupon for gelatin. What use is gelatin, really?
Honestly, she doesn't look healthy.
the only thing i've ever used gelatin for is sfx makeup but i HIGHLY doubt that's what she uses it for
That’s so true wow I just noticed that. I love this show. But it’s like everything they get is like shelf life items. I never realized that they never get meat or anything like you just said wow 🤩 how did I miss that and I been watching this show for a long time lol.
Plus it is from animal tendons and bones. Disgusting
Notice how heavy she is? Due to the processed foods
Desirae: "Deodorant, shampoo & body wash, I'm never going to stink!"
Also Desirae: Pictured in a dumpster digging through trash.
I was looking for this comment 😂
Lol 😂
Such an underrated comment 😊
Literally what I thought when she said this 😂😂😂😂
but she smells like roses! How can you not understand this?
She enjoys doing this and as long as she isint hurting anyone or annoying anyone I support her
The cashier looked annoyed & her friend wasn’t smiling at the end😂😂😂😂
as a cashier at a grocery store I dread ever meeting someone like this but it really is amazing what can be done with coupons
Bro you're literally getting paid to do your job 💀💀💀
@@smuhg4731 she's must be white
@@smuhg4731 and? Doesn’t mean she’s supposed to like unnecessarily complicated orders
Why do coupons exist? It doesn't make sense to just give away free stuff, unless its charity. But then it should be ensured it goes to those who actually need it and not just random people who come over it
@@zakosist There’s a lady in my town who got so addicted to couponing that her husband made her stop buying stuff.
So instead, she kept doing it and now she just gives all the stuff to food pantries/homeless shelters in our county. She gets her fix and it helps people in the process.
Nevermind that dumpster diving could easily result in a medical bill that could easily more than negate whatever she could hope to save with coupons. People routinely throw all sorts of incredibly dangerous stuff into them.
And she’s wearing nice Clothes in there! I don’t care if she’s on TV!
Used needles!
That’s very likely why that caution sign is there. But she obviously ignored it because finding coupons to save money is more important to her than her health and safety.
Aids and hepatitis HERE SHE COMES!
What if one day those dumpsters will get locked and only authorised personnel has access to them.
If she were doing this to donate ALL of it to people in need I would so root for this, but honestly this is just absurd and such a waste of everyone’s time and energy.
Yeah but who would bust their but for 60 hours a week to donate it ll. Thats like having a full time volunteer job
@@CarTa3 The fact she spend 60 hours a week is absurd.
Especially when sales, bargain bins and clear out stores exist.
@@CarTa3 it’s not like she’s used all of this and stuff does expire nobody needs 400 razors and over a hundred shampoos she can donate lol
@@crazykitty6190 that's not the point though. I think she should donate it too BUT why would she because she spent painstaking time collecting it. It's not about it going bad it's about the time and effort spent just to give it away. She should do that but i understand why she would not
The fact that these companies would rather throw this stuff in the trash than donate to the poor or needy, tells you exactly why they are what's wrong with this world. Greed.
Its called wild capitalism.
In my country they can't because donating to charity (if you're a supermarket) costs a lot of money (taxes) and also it's forbidden to give out food which is about to expire...
So, it's the government's fault.
Which country @@kryszele
@@davidb9806 Poland
Exactly
I'm all for saving money. The thing is that with this type of saving, you save on products you don't need, like 50 toothpaste. You need toothpaste, but not 50 boxes. I've known the feeling living paycheck to paycheck but i can't understand how she does all that work for mostly things she can't eat. At least, she donates. She helps others when she doesn't have space anymore.
Right!!!!
why dont u need 50 toothpaste? one every 2 weeks = she's set for 2 years on toothpaste. it's called stacking up and saving.
@@Prince-jb7pv how does one use a tube of toothpaste in 2 weeks? I googled it it said about 2.5 months per tube
@@cys5891 😂😂😂 right
@@cys5891 sure maybe if u have yellow teeth. lol, toothpaste is $6. maybe 1 per month but it def doesnt last 2.5 months for a family. she has a family, so i'd estimate 2 weeks.
There’s surely a greed or obsessive motive for this. She really doesn’t need that much bulk of some of those products. $4.5k retail value of razors? Her storage area is so well kept it looks like doesn’t even use anything.
right? like i get saving money is great but why over do it? My sister is cheap, she sees cereal on sale buy one get one free and shes like "we need this!" even though we end up not eating it because she rarely eats cereal and i never do. So in the end it just wasting more money. If this lady at least donated some of it then sure. What happens when something expires? There's so much of some items that would they really eat it all?
ah shut up!
It’s a mental illness
This is a form of mental illness
make jokes, but she has a decent balance in her pantry...part of my brain is yelling broccoli, apples, bananas....but she IS amazing at what she does
Imagine working 60 hours per week, how well paid she would be, that she would buy all the products and still get money left.
she is a stay home mom
She would have to land a $20+ an hour job to be able to spend over $1000 on groceries and then have money left over.
@@err0r-403 Yes but she is buying way more groceries than she needs. A family of three does not spend $1000 on groceries every week.
Unless she sales that excess for profit it doesn’t economically make sense to buy a bunch of stuff you’ll never use for ‘free’ and waste 60 hrs planning it.
Yep. Thats not smart of her.
What a life! 😮 This woman has lost her mind! The items will expire before she can use them! 😮😮😮
The cashier and manager were so patient and kind 👏
only because cameras were prescent
@@Bay6768 I think they would've still been kind, but it 100% would've put that lady on a watchlist lol.
I feel bad about the cashier and the manager struggling with all of those stuff she tried buying💀
They getting paid too
they're getting paid to do their job bro
They acted nice for the cameras though.
They have to work till the end so better make some fun then a boring job
I used to be a cashier and if I saw that coming toward me, I would turn off my light and go home.
"I have so much soap ill never stink". GIRL YOU JUST WENT DUMPSTER DIVING
Thats she said that. Duh
Just a guess, but I'm guessing she showers after dumpster diving and not before.
Exactly why she needs the soap
That's why she has a soap for showering you dull brain
i wish people who did this would donate some of the stuff, she basically has an entire community pantry in her house
I will never understand why these people feel the need to have to take the whole shelf. It’s literally all going to be expired before she can use it
Like really 45 boxes of cake and cookie mix and 49 packages if candy, that’s just really unnecessary nobody needs candy and cake and cookie mix
@@nataleeisjustchilling2737 but she looks like, she does
@@bebe323 lol
These people turn around and sell for major profits.
The coupons expire too, did you know that?
I can see why stores don't want people using massive amounts of coupons. This is ridiculous
Maybe there should be a limit to how many coupons each person can use eg. per month
They get reimbursed for the coupons by the manufacturers. It’s really not a huge loss for them other than the hassle.
It is not just ridiculous but it's selfish. There are other people that have small grocery budgets as well. But no one can get the products.
Well, maybe they shouldn't have created the process
It used to help my mom out who was a single mom of two. Would save like 60 bucks on stuff we NEEDED. But this level is ridiculous
This lady isn’t shopping/couponing for her household or to donate, she’s doing it because she can and finds a thrill in it. It’s extremely wasteful and quite possibly a mental issue. How many tubes of toothpaste??
Do it because you need it. If she cut down her hours couponing, she could still get what she needs for her family while also contributing to the family income.
I completely agree. If she was doing it and keeping what she will use and donating the rest but most of this will expire and end up in the dump. She really needs to see a therapist. Maybe she should spend less time couponing and some time on exercise.
it's TLC (they live crazy channel) 🙃
Not to mention, how many of those things is she just getting because she had a coupon, not because she would normally be getting them? She needs to donate those things to a shelter or food kitchen.
She can give it to her family members.
@@Absbabs88 in the video she said she does I think in the beginning
I remember this show. It totally ruined it for those of us who really used coupons the right way and just wanted to save some money.
Why?
@@giuseppepatane6601someone said it was changed and you cannot use more than 1 coupon on each product
Why
@@giuseppepatane6601probably because stores started to add more limits to stop people from doing this
Not trying to judge, but couldn't this be considered an organized form of hoarding? I mean when she said to donate or have a neighbor shop, that would be really great. Let's face it no one is going to be using 48 bottles of dish soap, or 128 or so bottles of shampoo, and conditioner, all of those razors etc.
Someone who was struggling to make ends meet would probably really, really appreciate anything at all. For someone in a shelter many of those things could be a huge blessing. I know at the end of the day it's hers and she can do whatever she wants with it, but if she doesn't plan on using most of the items rather than collecting dust or being a trophy section of her couponing, someone in need could, and should get some use out of some of the things there before they go bad. Personal care items, detergents, ETC. do have a shelf life. Most of those items if ever they were going to be used that is, would most likely be past their expiration date by the time she got to it. Also, she is only accumulating more, and more at this point. Definitely should give to those in need at some point.
What's the dollar limit in one's bank account that should be considered hoarding?
When I did couponing years ago, this is what I did. I had specific things I would buy, like feminine products, detergent, etc. that I knew people on SNAP benefits couldn’t buy with that program. For example, I donated two shopping bags just of tampons to a woman’s shelter, Gain laundry detergent (which I don’t like but had great coupons) to our local food pantry, etc. I figure if I had the knowledge on how to get things for almost nothing, the least I could do was to try and help others. I liked it-I felt happy.
@@debbieomi hoarding specifically refers to obsessively collecting or holding onto objects. money doesnt usually apply to that, but people who are obsessed with how much money they have or make are also not very healthy
100% agree, Mindy. If she needs to invite neighbors over to take items from her it means she doesn't need to spend 60 hours each week couponing. She clearly has a psychological need to coupon that doesn't seem entirely healthy.
I'm have a lot of respect for that cashier to have that patience and still being friendly the whole time. I will admit though it's insanely impressive to me that she got a 1000+ dollar order down to .55 cents. That's actually amazing.
Just imagine she ends up with a $1000 bill and hears “Actually all these coupons have expired”
😁😁😂😂
Would love to see that happen and see her reaction😆
@@tinahuttner7280 I guess she would scream and run away!!
The poor workers will have to put everything back.
I like how he narrates the mission like some sort of spec ops seal team 6 operation😂
I’m just astounded that she’s 24 and looks in her mid 30s
More in her 40s
Living off of Powerade, cake mix, candy, and toothpaste really does that to you 😔😔😔
And the fact that im 26 and look like a teenager🤣
If she lost weight she would probably look a lot younger. But she definitely doesn't look 24 lol
@@JCDenton2000 she has had weightloss surgery since this episode aired years ago
I bet all the stuff gets expired before she can use it
True. As an example, deodorant expires within a couple years at least of being purchased. If she has 105 containers of deodorant, I doubt she will be able to use them all by 2023... :) Sounds like she's wasting time and would have a lot more money if she actually worked at a job for 60 hours per week! :)
Did you even watch the video? She said she actively donates. And almost always anyone that has a stockpile that large often shares with extended family members, neighbors, friends, etc.
@@PrincessMultiracial yeah same I know people who let their family and friends “shop” from their stash of stuff they got couponing. They’ll ask for like $0.10 per item, basically just whatever they paid for it, it’s really great.
Lol😂
I did the math and if she worked a regular job she'd be making 3,600 a month... you can't pay bills with toothpaste and cake mix lol getting a job would be more viable imo.
Let’s just appreciate the cashiers patience with all of this 😂
That’s her job sooo
Lol because the camera was there
*I can’t imagine the pain that the cashier felt while doing this job*
She saved about $1000, and in fact she dedicated 60h to that, she effectively earned around $17 per hour. Better than a min wage job. Can this be a consistent effort? At some point having another 100 toothpaste tubes will be less valuable than money.
She would make a great accountant or a financial controller. She’s very organized as well.
Not really because $$$ is better than bulk toothpaste, cake mix. For example is she sold it she'd get a fraction of what's worth. Hardly anyone buys toothpaste etc from strangers and if they did it'd have to be for much cheaper.
@@cloudyns uncle Sam can't tax toothpaste though 💀
I would respect the heck out of this if she did it for personal use and donated the rest to shelters or other struggling families. This is just hoarding
Spend 60 hours a week, and your poor family has to live off Gatorade, Premade Brownie Mixes and candy? No thanks xD I'll keep my 9-5
Do you really think they don't eat anything but that? Couponing saves her money for meat and veggies. And everyone I know eats brownies and Gatorade!
@@uphillhomestead6188 Her pantry was filled with the processed foods that are making her obese.
@@jessiejoseph1093 well I don't know her so I can't say for sure...but that's the stuff coupons pay for. The meat doesn't get coupons usually and besides..I doubt she keeps fresh meat up on a shelf. This is her stockpile , she still has a kitchen to eat her daily meals from. My shelves are stockpiled like hers but I have plenty of fresh stuff in the fridge and freezer. .
Her website was shown in the video which likely was another form of income
@@uphillhomestead6188 she also does have her entire stock pile soooo….
My mom always buys things she never would have bought if there wasnt a discount for it, same applies here, the sellers trick worked
If she put this much energy into something that really mattered she’d be a billionaire
Dude who cares
She doesn’t have to do something that matters for other people if she doesn’t wanna, if she wants to do the thing with the coupons she can, so stop judging
Only if you had that much energy
Low energy
@@PaendaTube playing college basketball for reason
@@uglyboiaiden7694 What's after that, G league?
I have friends who lived in states where you could double and sometimes triple coupons, and they said it was a nightmare when these extreme couponing shows were popular because the extreme couponers would literally clear the shelves of all sale items, without regard to people on a budge trying just to get their families needs met for the week. Rather than take even a dozen items, they'd take all 36 that were just unboxed. So if you wanted to get a couple of boxes of mac and cheese on sale for your kids, you were out of luck because one person took all that was in stock.
Yes I find them a pest
Yes exactly! Used to help out our family. But that show ruined it
Early bird gets the worm 😋
Not exactly healthy. Be grateful.
Stores should place limits they could easily do that.
I’m sorry but dumpster diving is so not worth it, it’s disgusting in fact. No literally it’s disgusting, that’s how pests attach themselves to your clothing or to your shoes and transfer from the dumpster to your home. I.e. bedbugs, fleas etc.
As much as I love saving money, this is just another excuse to be a hoarder
All of her items are clean and organized, just like everything else in her life. It looks like she uses stuff and gets more in, but keeps a bit extra.
I, personally do this. I have 5 of the big bottles of dish soap at any given time and 5 big containers of hand soap refill. It could last me years, but when ine gets empty, I get another one at the store when I see it cheap.
i grew in a poor house, i have the utmost respect for this woman. my mother was not at this level but had be smart about any purchases.
Ya but this absurd her obsession has turned into greed and hoarding
You need new role models
@@vidaacheampong2563 Well if you do not have the money to buy, are not the stores greedy and hoarding? Why do people do not talk about that? The stores stock up and have a lot of inventory, why can't she?
Stores don't double coupons anymore bc of this, at least where I live.
I admire this woman! She is very smart. I feel that businesses should hire her to save them money. She has talent that is very valuable in the business world.
she literally has a large amount of the perfect things to have to start a homeless shelter, I really don't understand why she would rather just stock them when she will never be able to use all of these before they expire and imagine how many people she could help with these things especially the diapers.
I am SO glad that most coupons now have a limit of one per customer.
Because people like her were taking advantage of the situation so now everyone losses
She's basically 8 people so..💁
Why all the negative comments? I think it’s great she can do this. I know a couponer and she donates everything she gets to families who have house fires and those in need.
If she wasn't couponing, she would be living in a 2-income household. Instead of 60 hours per week spent couponing, she would work 40 hours and spend an additional 20 hours as family time, leisure time, and/or socializing.
I signed up for a couponing class years ago. They told you everything about it except where they get the coupons from. People were asking but they kept avoiding the question. Eventually they said "coupon clipping services", you pay for the coupons! I'm sure you save in the long run, but you're still paying for it
They probably didn’t want to tell y’all right away
if she donates this stuff/ gives it to friends this is actually such an iconic anarchist moment because u KNOW those corporations are shaking in their boots at what she got away with
0:39 How convenient that ladder was there
40 hours of honest work will bring 1200 each week after taxes. The other 20 hours she can spend with her family and not eat all the things she purchased that the body really doesn’t need.
But I completely agree with the “thrill”. You feel like an Olympic gold medalist when you spend under $50 for a $1000 worth of goods.
Can you imagine the meltdown she probably had when coupon policies changed?
As an Aussie I find the concept of coupons so strange. We commonly have items on sale for half price- no coupon needed!
Aussie here too, very confusing indeed. Have no idea how they actually work lol. Ironically, this channel is called TLC Australia 😂
Haha 😂
Im aussie too; are things not on sale like this in the US? That information is rather shocking! I always stock up on my regular stuff when its 40%-50%+ off, is this not a universal thing??
I never minded about this, until the pandemic. I was behind a lady that was absolutely hoarding items. They refused to sell her multiples of everything, and then when she kept yelling they finally told her to leave. Empty handed. 😌 as for this lady, apparently they live off of cake mix, cookie mix, and candy.
Does she look trim and healthy?
She doesn’t exclusively live off of cake mix and candy, it’s just that this is the only type of food she can buy in bulk fruits and vegetables shouldn’t be bought this way because they go bad
She said “I’m never gonna stink” yet she dumpster dives 24/7 😂
as a cashier this is terrifying
i’m already terrible at math
Not to be negative, but I hope the supermarket has a special checkout for couponers so that other shoppers aren't kept waiting in line for ages and ages on end.
Too true. She kept talking about being stressed. If you want to see stressed, look at the cashier’s face. And the people in line behind her. I’m not dissing coupons, I use them myself, but there is a Big difference between being thrifty and being obsessed.
Nope, I have been in line behind them...
5hey dont. Other shoppers use other lines
This is why I like the digital coupons. No one has to wait forever.
It always blows my mind when these couponers buy so much junk food. Like toiletries are one thing, but no need for Gatorade.
I’m glad that she’s saving money but she’s buying too much things which are gonna go bad and make a waste
That’s the same thing I thought. Things do have an expiration date.
honestly nobody is allowed to do this, TLC makes this seem like its possible, but every episode of couponing has a store manager there to monitor everything...its absolute b.s cause im sure everyone would be doing this
A lot of these episodes were filmed several years ago, when store coupon policies were a little more lax. Now the rules are for coupons are a lot stricter because of people like her. Also, there's no way a store manager would take the time to jump through all those hoops for one customer who's going to pay so little to the store.
yes they are she did it fir like 10 years
@@blugreen123 it’s because he’s on TV
Everyone would be doing this? dedicating 60 hours a week to the most tedious job in the world? No thanks. You couldn't even pay me enough to do this
People are too lazy to go that hard for some coupons
If she can do such a great time management for her couponing, she could probably get a job somewhere, making more money because of her organizational skills and then she wouldn’t have to spend so much time looking for savings on coupons. She could actually then buy products that she really wants as opposed to just items that happen to be on sale
One thing I’ll never understand watching these is how do these customers have the stores actually pay them when using coupons? Also any coupon I’ve ever seen had a limit of how many uses per customer. So I wish I could understand how this works
You have to read the coupons more carefully because it states 1 coupon per purchase meaning that item ……. Some coupons say one coupon per household same as you seeing one coupon per customer but not all coupons say that probably only 1/4 or less coupons say that. There are coupons saying only 2 like coupons per transaction nowadays but I guess sometimes even that doesn’t matter depending on STORE policy….. meaning you can over exceed and use more like coupons per transaction
Me 2 couldnot understand .
This show is about a decade old. Back then, coupons didn’t have limits on them.
Coupons have changed in limitations likely due to people like this. She's not doing anything wrong, cus stores don't really lose much from 1 or two extreme couponers buying thousands in stock and spending pennies to the dime on it- that's a rare case compared to the hundreds of other customers that bring them way more money in a day. And if the store provided coupons then she's got every right to cash them all in whenever she wants, but it was probably hellish for cashiers to scan extreme couponers out. now there's limitations on coupons. but sometimes you can still find some without limits and you just have to read the coupon very carefully
This show breaks a lot of rules. This isn't normal coupon use.
I never thought someone could be so stressed grocery shopping
I know this is very annoying, but I’m actually very impressed with her dedication to it and how much she saved 😮
She saved on stuff she didn't need. She actually didn't save. Imagine working at $11 per hour and she works 60 hours per week. That totals $785 per week she could have earned and used for groceries and other things that her family needs because all the supplies she had that they will never use and they will just become land fill which means all that work for nothing. She has a mental problem.
Me too. I wish she would write an eBook so I can take lessons. I’d use it for the shampoo and cleaning supply stock. Nothing food related.
Same
Yeah but she could just work 60 hours and make more than the 1700 she saves from collecting coupons for that long
She’s a mom though. She can do this while her kids are at home, or at school because it’s her schedule. She probably takes care of neighborhood kids and events with her hauls. This frees up a huge chunk of expenses in the budget long-term. From a “mom job” standpoint, this is ideal.
this is like a full on sport, honestly fair play she saved herself a lot of money, hope she donated some of the items
This show is from like 10-12 years ago which is why she could get away with it. Also it’s because of this show that majority of grocery stores changed their coupon policies to limiting how many you can use a transaction. So couponing is pretty much ruined for the average consumer.
I knew I saw this all those years ago lol yea I believe you can’t do this type of extreme couponing anymore
Two things here..
1. She spends 60 hours a week on this..when does she spend time with her son?
2. She stores this stuff,( a lot of stuff she doesn't need) and says if she runs out of room she'll tell her neighbor to come shop or donate it. So selfish.
1:33 "im never gonna stink" well yea u definitely wont if u go dumpster diving
Honestly wish i could coupon like these people. Definitely would help alot.
there are several couponers that I started watching on TH-cam years ago when I started. anyone can do it. you don't have to spend 60 hours a week. Walgreens and cvs have deals every week that are enough for a family. this example is extreme.
I can help you. What do you need?
@@candicer7325 i dont know what i need to coupon
@@christengardner1466 quite the impasse for us the
@@lalaincbus5081 thank you
I’ve heard of worst addictions, this ain’t bad. I use to be a cashier, I don’t mind couponers at all. People like her helped the time go by faster, plus ain’t nothing wrong with saving some money.
Right
Exactly!
Aldi us a million times cheaper and no coupon needed. 😊
wOw I can't believe she saved that much money. The end of the episode had me on the edge of my seat!
These people are out of control and need counseling. When you turn your house into a store by dint of buying and buying, that's a sign of a serious problem. One could basically live off for years with the all that stuff she has. Unbelievable.
she's a hoarder, and she flat out admits she's addicted to couponing. Her husband should be ashamed.
Actually she won't. She is obese.
That's the goal...to be able to live off your stockpile if you lose your income or super inflation as we are starting to see now.
“I’m never going to stink “
- go’s dumpster diving
:/ 😂😂
She is so addicted to the rush she feels waiting at the cash register. Yes, this to me is pure addiction and she needs help. 😢
This commenter is a busybody who sees a happy family and finds a problem. This commenter needs some help. 🙄
@@buckaroobonzai2909 that woman bought over $1000 worth of items for 2 adults and a child. That's a problem. You saw that room stuffed with excess items. What's she going to do with 150+ body washes as she continues to hoard more? Hoarding is a mental illness.
@@deja_ Those body washes will likely never go bad. She will use them over the course of a year or so and she can effectively keep her family clean for free. I don't see the problem because they are in a one income household.... Next item?
@@buckaroobonzai2909 you're as delusional as she is. You use 150+ bottles of body wash a year? Then you're just as wasteful and negligent as she is. Next item?
@@deja_ Nope. You are just gas lighting and anyone can see that if they reread the comments.
Where did you get the figure "150 bottles of bodywash a year". Put up, or shut up.
i feel like some of y'all are hating tbh
im actually really impressed with her dedication and how much she saved. It is a bit extreme (hence the name) but I'm pretty sure its played up for TV. I doubt she spending 60 hours _a week_ doing this. Realistically she might do this 3 times a year and have a revolving pantry and just go to the store for little things that she runs through quickly
She maybe crazy but she turned 1k worthvof groceries into 21 dollars, that’s talent