I did see one episode where one of these extreme couponers donated their entire shopping hoard to a women’s shelter. She essential used her skill to buy thousands of dollars of tampons, pads and other products for virtually nothing and donated them all to a women’s shelter for abused women.
See I feel like thats different then a lot of these people. Using your skills to get tampons and pads for free to help struggling women is showing a level of kindness and compassion. Same goes for pastors/ people who run foodbank and do this. but the majority seem to have a fuck you got mine mentality. (side note I worked in a dollar store where people would extream coupon and they are some of the meanist people I ever met in my life)
This woman could literally put her "talents" towards running an entire food bank for people who cannot afford essentials. And she would still have well enough for herself
There was one episode where the lady who is couponing does it to donate to the local food bank. It’s the only time this show didn’t put me on edge from all of the waste. When they fill their basements with random shampoos and soaps, it just looks like an organized landfill
I remember the one with the student with a kid that lived with her parents, she had them stay after they closed just because of her greed. I got in a few YT fights trying to explain that no she don’t need 100s of Oreo cups. It is nice when you see them donating to help others. People in real need take only what they need I’ve found.
As a former cashier in an American grocery store I actually loved the coupon people. It broke up the monotony of the normal customers 😂. Also, the manufacturers reimburse the store for the price of the coupon so the store doesn't lose any money, just the manufacturers. Since this show I've heard companies offer wayyy less coupons lol.
There was a mormon family I knew who came to our trader Joe's and after they cleared shelves once, the manager came to wring them up and they worked out a deal for the family to just bulk buy and have it delivered. But I guess the goal of component isn't to feed the family 💀✋ its to get the food for free
This show was so insane. Those people in the store clapping were probably clapping because they'll finally leave because you know there was a line behind them.
@@Luxeria The second couple shown Tiffany & Paul became millionaires in the MLM Lularoe. When they left the company they were one of the few high up consultants that spoke out against the wrong doings of the company when things got bad. Then they started their own boutique selling on Facebook live to their customers. I used to see some of their live sales and they seemed like very down to earth nice people.
This show is older, and in the last decade or so (in part because of content like this show), coupon policies have gotten way more strict in the U.S. So stuff like this is way harder, or essentially impossible, at this point. That said, I do miss seeing the people who donated most of what they got.
Yeah, I also wouldn't be surprised if aggressive couponing is part of the reason so many retailers went to the Loyalty Program model of discounting and coupon offers. That way they have not only more control of what coupons are coming in their system (since many policies make it and either/or thing where any one item can be discounted by a manufacturer's coupon or a store's but not both) and can also encourage customers to choose their stores more specifically since loyalty programs often offer transaction total discounts or at least points per dollar spent. That at least offsets the FTE put into dealing with certain coupons by bringing the client back to spend more money than they'd ever save from a particular coupon.
@@alisha6341 when I worked at rite aid in high school, this guy would come it every Sunday and buy multiple expensive items that he was obviously going to resell. Like tons of razor blades, printer ink, teeth whitening strips etc. He brought so many coupons his total would ALWAYS COME OUT TO LESS THAN ONE DOLLAR. We changed the store policy because of him, and I had to deal with his temper tantrum when I said it’s now limit 2 per customer.
I do some pretty dedicated couponing and deal looking (not to this crazy psychotic extent) and if you get a variety of things on sale vs the exact same items it does save you a ton of money. I generally have different stores for different items (like Kroger has my coffee for way cheaper, but Walmart has my dog food for cheaper. Aldi has the cheese I like for cheaper and walgreens has the detergent I use generally on sale for way less). Just gotta know what you want, where to get it, and just go regularly while you can still get the sale. Like when walgreens puts my detergent on sale, I'll get 4 every few days until they run out (which they don't stock much anyway) or until the sale ends, then use what I have until I'm down to just 2 and start over. Same concept with baby food, especially now with the shortage it's very important I find coupons and discounts where I can and buy it out for my preemie daughter.
In the US, we get stacks of coupons in the mail two or three times a week. In our building, the postal worker just leaves a huge stack on the table in the hall, and that usually goes straight into the bin. So, no, there is no reason to buy newspapers.
Guilty party here! I used to extreme coupon back in the day when it was still allowed. I was able to donate 300 baby bottles to a family shelter, 175 blankets to the animal shelter, and I didn't pay for laundry detergent for 3 years- all for free. Can't do it now though 😑
That's actually really great! There was a man in one of these episodes who did the same. I believe he'd grown up kind of poor so when he was living a comfortable life, he decided to use couponing to donate to the local food bank.
Yeah these shows really led to the demise of homemakers saving for their families. They exposed all our secrets, and now I can barely get any decent coupons online like I used to, also the newspaper hasn’t had a coupon sheet in there for years now. At least where I reside.
I went to a “couponing class” with a friend once that basically taught you their process. They recommend getting four copies of the Sunday paper that has all the coupons and then you have a filing system at home. You don’t cut the coupons right away. You file them away and then follow this couponing blog that tells you what’s on sale. The blog will be like, “Kellogg’s cereal is buy one get one free this week at this grocery store. Go to your file to this specific week and pull this coupon for $4 off one box. Then buy four boxes to get all four boxes free.” I don’t have the patience for all that.
What the hell!!? If these people have time to go to a "couponing course", then they have the time to go look for a job. Coupons were originally designed to help out low income families, but people are now just abusing that out of greed. I'm in Australia, but we know all about what goes on with couponing in the U.S. And I've come to notice that most of the people that do "extreme couponing" are upper middle class Karens. They go in wearing their designer label clothes, shoes and handbags, with their gold and diamond rings, and use coupons to "buy" every single item off the shelf - leaving nothing for those who really are in need. And because these women have done this, the people who actually rely on coupons can no longer use them. They should stop wasting money on their expensive clothing and use that money to feed their family!!
@@samanthafairweather9186 Almost all families are below the poverty line in America. We have two full time, higher wage, hourly jobs, and three teenagers. We don’t buy extra or travel. We buy all of our clothes at thrift shops. We usually don’t make it from one paycheck to the next, and prices of everything never stops rising. We don’t qualify for food from the food bank. I honestly don’t blame anyone for stealing in this country.
@samanthafairweather9186 lots of times those families spend money on those designer/namebrand clothes because they are trying to show the world they had money when in reality their labels are being bought at second hand stores or handed down from older kids. There are clothing exchanges as well for adults that people will host to freshen up their wardrobe. In my experience it is common that some of the people with the most need wear these labels.
I watched one of these one time where the couponer was in charge of stocking the pantry for a non-profit shelter which makes so much more sense than all of these crazy people hoarding food. Also I live in America and every single one of our grocery stores say no doubling of coupons there's a coupon per transaction limit there's a number of items you can buy limit. I honestly don't think extreme couponing even exists anymore except for in maybe small towns.
Extreme couponing was a thing back then, then this show came out and groceries didn't like being " manipulated" in such a way. So they fixed it. Lol. But online you can find saving in coupons. Lije but 10 fir a specific price of 30 to 50 cents off per can. Too much effort for new I tell ya
That's coupons being used for the right thing. The people who did "extreme couponing" even though the could afford to buy designer label clothes and stuff, ruined it for the people that actually needed coupons to get by. Because of those greedy types, now others are paying the price, and it's not right.
@@fallenfaerie1020 and there are some states with no sales tax whatsoever. Getting everyone to agree on what can be taxed and at what percentage would be a nightmare.
My mom *definitely* went on a "I'm gonna be an extreme couponer!" trip after this show started airing, she got herself a special binder and a wallet just for coupons and everything. It didn't last more than 2 months lol
@@TheNormExperience she would do it in bursts on her days off work. She would spend like 3-5 hours maybe 3 days a week, looking through different websites, apps and Facebook groups, then printing, cutting, and organizing them, making lists...
I did that but mainly concentrated on deodorant, shampoo, conditioner, bodywash and paper products. Told my kids there's no way anyone should stink in my house....lol...my oldest daughter doesn't coupon like I did, but she does watch her budget and makes the most of her money
I’ve watched a ton of this show when it aired and the cashiers always look absolutely dead inside lol, imagine someone showing up to your minimum wage job and spending 4 hours scanning coupons? I’d cry in the break room after.
as someone who worked as a cashier at the very beginning of the pandemic, i can assure you crying in the break room became an essential part of my workday
Idk I used to work as a cashier for a time, and it was quite bland and boring. So if a crazy person like that would come up and create drama at the store as others wait in line it would be hilarious change of pace.
When Craigslist got more popular and covered smaller cities, I remember seeing people in my city that did extreme couponing, then advertised their stash on there as a kind of “grocery store” that was half price of the regular store. They’d set up their garage with shelves and shelves and handwritten signs on everything with the prices. Every once in a while you’ll still see people advertising the same thing on Facebook Marketplace but the “stores” are usually smaller than they were in the 2010s.
As a child who once saw this once, I literally sat there while my mom could barely buy anything even with the use of coupons and this lady swooped by and took the entire stock of lucky charms which was the one cereal me and my siblings liked
@@sarahramsey289 if they have the passion and the talent for this coupon craziness, they should do it and donate a lot of it rather than hoard and waste
@@rosieweaselby COMPLETELY AGREE. They could go from greedy psychopaths who need an adult to monitor their shopping, to being a responsible person who helps the world. Sadly they are far too psychotic and selfish
Yup, Luxeria guessed correctly. Extreme couponing is totally a trauma response. You have to look for newspapers and find a bunch of coupons, organize them, plan your shopping trips, ensure your calculations are correct, and make space for the items in your home. It becomes it’s own job without having to declare income or rely on an employer. My old coworker would do it and it sounded miserable.
You all hit the nail on the head with everything. Yes, after this show came out stores started limiting everything in correlation with coupons. Yes a lot of them are hoarders but there are some that donate a lot of their things. They basically coupon for the thrill of it and then donate most of their items, those people are lovely.
Oh wow this is giving me such flashbacks. I remember when extreme couponing was HUGE here and being stuck in lines behind women with massive binders just overflowing with coupons and several carts full of items they could never use before they went bad. The worst part was always when they would just literally SCREAM at the poor cashiers if they has an expired coupon, that happened so often and I always felt SO bad for the poor people just trying to do their jobs and get everyone checked out as fast as possible.
I used to binge this show when it was on Netflix like 8ish years ago. The saddest episode is when one of the cashiers is talking about the customer causing and worsening her carpal tunnel and the extreme pain it caused her when the couponer came in for shopping. God that broke my heart.
What I don’t like about this show is how it emphasizes the “weird behavior” that people do to sustain themselves (and how it might lead to overconsumption). The show doesn’t go into how large grocery stores and food companies exploit people and waste food, which is a much, much greater source of waste.
This show was nuts. These couponers would spend literal hours in a store. Not to mention how absolutely time consuming it seemed to be to collect all of these coupons in the first place and put them neatly into binders. Some cases these people would buy stuff they just didn't need and put it in their huge ass storage room for these things. Like, I feel as if this one person bought a bunch of wet cat food yet she had no cats??? There was one episode that I actually did like. There was this guy who grew up kind of poor so he learnt about couponing and when he was living a comfortable life, he decided to use couponing as a tool to get a bunch of food and hygiene products to donate to a local food bank.
@@teijaflink2226 I think what these people did was weekly, they'd either buy a bunch of papers, people would give them their papers, or something they'd get them out of a dumpster and would get a ton of different coupons. Couponing basically seems almost like a full time job the way these people do it. They sort through papers, cut out different coupons, research the sales, put them neatly in binders, then are shopping for hours the day they go to the grocery store. But there are also apparently coupons that never expire or won't expire for awhile. But most do have expiration dates.
See I never had an issue when it was a reverend or if it was someone from a local charity who was couponing and buying bulk items at the shop that I worked at because you got the understanding that this wasn't just for them they weren't buying you know 400 boxes of toothpaste because they were recording toothpaste it was literally so that they could help the community but just buying stuff for the sake of buying stuff because you have a coupon just doesn't make sense to me
@@photofreak56 Yeah, exactly. There was a woman who'd allow people to come in and take what they needed so she was constantly running out because she let her neighborhood take whatever they needed. She like the guy I mentioned had went through a period where she struggled. She'd just gotten divorced and had a young child so she wanted to help others. They made sense. But then there'd be others who'd just buy things because they had a coupon, even if they didn't need or like that thing. Like there was one woman who had dog flea collars or medicine or something because she believed it made her stockpile look pretty.
Y’all should continue! I can’t explain the shock of seeing a cashier hand cash TO a customer, and it wasn’t her change, the store gave HER money! How insane is that?!
I have some sympathy for these women and their families. I see much of this as a symptom of American policies and culture. This was filmed in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, which devastated much of America's middle and working classes. When you combine that with the gendered division of household labor, many women who wanted to help support their families in tough times likely did not have the formal skills to join the job market. As a result, I see these women focusing their effort and ingenuity to the sphere they were socialized into, i.e. housework and Grocery shopping. The couponing likely allowed these women to feel in control of their rocky financial situations and like they could materially contribute to the welfare of their family. (I'm not saying this was the practical outcome. I think you were spot on in saying this was a trauma response and that their purchases were irrational.) As for advising people to not have kids unless they can afford it. That's difficult advice to follow when many parts of the US limit information about and access to birth control. I love you Luxeria! 💗 You always extend empathy and understanding to the subjects of these shows. I just wanted to give some US-based context that may have influenced these families.
Due to this exact show and the "raiding" you guys talked about, in America we're now only allowed to use 1 coupon pure item or shopping session. You guys are amazing and always make me laugh so much! 😂😂😂 Love you! ❤
I remember the height of the couponing craze, you couldn't find a coupon to save your life! I had a neighbor that got caught stealing the coupon pages out of everyone else's papers before everyone woke up!
I worked as a Customer service manager for a grocery store chain when this was popular, and the company reissued their coupon policy as well as their bulk buying limits at that time. It made some people upset but it genuinely was better for overall customer satisfaction and employee benefit.
I remember watching this show when I was younger and being SUPER jealous. I’m from NYC and this type of couponing is VERY suburban/rural/“middle America”. You could NEVER do this in a major metropolitan city. There have always been item limits, number of coupon limits, and restrictions to which stores you can use a coupon in that make it so you can’t buy a store out of merchandise with a coupon. Also the prices are so marked up here that even with a coupon on a sale item, you will never get it for free. Many people see shows like this and are like “The US is super weird!” But different states (and even different cities within the same state) can vary greatly. While someone in a rural or semi-rural location Kansas might watch this show and relate to it and be able to start doing something like this, someone in urban New York is watching it with the same curiosity and disbelief as you 👀 Also, some people in the later seasons do explain that they donate many of the items to shelters, churches, and other outreach places.
Fellow New Yorker here, can 100 percent confirm this does NOT fly here. And even if the stores allowed it, anyone holding up a checkout line with books of coupons and a cart full of mustard and toilet papers is asking for a thrashing
I don't know if most people would agree but the US kinda reminds me of having 50 angry countries superglued together with an angry parent trying to force them all to get along. At least in France and Britain you can look at the other European countries and kinda go, "we don't know them" but in the US, we're just... stuck with it 😂
@@hellomoron It didn't use to be this way, but it sure is now. That's what happens when a hateful party runs hateful candidates to whip up hate to get elected.
This is the duo that is absolutely necessary for 2022! Bringing us the joy & laughter, saying all that is controversial yet brave, including us all so we feel like true besties- Lux and Roly keeping the children fed! Much love🤘🖤✌️
Worked at a dollar store & had a regular that was an extreme couponer, she literally had the district manager come down to "investigate" then she got banned for raising a stink with him & now you're only allowed to use 2 coupons per transaction & only 2 consecutive transactions with coupons used. But she literally had hundreds of dollars worth of stuff that she only had to pay tax on (maybe 10 bucks). She constantly had "garage sales" & resold the stuff on facebook.
I used to work at a Publix Grocery store. The extreme couponer used to cause so much trouble they would try to alternate grocery stores from a 15 mile radios thinking we wouldn't remember their face when they came back. As soon as they would walk in the store we'd all be like "that crazy coupon lady is back get ready!"
@@Celtic_Amy I had one woman who was banned from the dollar store but I worked in because of using fraudulent coupons and she was one of these crazy coupon people she would have her kids go in one-by-one and buy stuff for her to the point that she had her five-year-old wants come up with like 17 bottles dish detergent and I just remember thinking what the fuck is this five-year-old doing with this much soap and then the little kid hands me coupons and says remember to I play the coupons after you apply the tax and I just thought what the fuck and my manager came out inside oh yeah we can't serve this kid she's here buying for her mother who's been banned like this was my maybe first week on the job and I had to learn that there were certain people banned from the store that would use their kids before coupons like these people are insane and don't get me wrong I understand poverty I'm a part of the American working port I'm on food stamps and Medicaid and I do try to use a few coupons when I go grocery shopping so that I can make my food stamps go a little bit farther but usually I only use maybe one or two a month
@@Celtic_Amy I had one woman who was banned from the dollar store but I worked in because of using fraudulent coupons and she was one of these crazy coupon people she would have her kids go in one-by-one and buy stuff for her to the point that she had her five-year-old wants come up with like 17 bottles dish detergent and I just remember thinking what the fuck is this five-year-old doing with this much soap and then the little kid hands me coupons and says remember to I play the coupons after you apply the tax and I just thought what the fuck and my manager came out inside oh yeah we can't serve this kid she's here buying for her mother who's been banned like this was my maybe first week on the job and I had to learn that there were certain people banned from the store that would use their kids before coupons like these people are insane and don't get me wrong I understand poverty I'm a part of the American working port I'm on food stamps and Medicaid and I do try to use a few coupons when I go grocery shopping so that I can make my food stamps go a little bit farther but usually I only use maybe one or two a month
Being an American and watching this show when it aired I can tell you some of these episodes are insane! I definitely think you guys should continue this series! I recently discovered both you and Roly’s channels and I am obsessed 🤩
As someone who worked retail stocking the shelves I can tell you how annoying it was to work hours in filling the shelves only to have a Karen come with her cart and clean out the shelves......and because we can't leave them empty I have to go get more from the back and start over again. It was never ending.
I would hate to be an employee at a store, that was featured on Extreme Couponing. Because I would get overloaded by what's happening and have a panic attack.
Yeah I worked the non foods stuff like shampoo, toothpaste, toilet paper garbage bags, razers ect. Pretty much a lot of what comes on coupons and it was just awful to work the days after the ads came out.
What are we sucked for me was when Dollar Tree started taking coupons we have these insane people come in and when you work at a Dollar Tree it's you and maybe one other person And so My manager who would never leave the office would leave me to stock the shells and check out people and there were times I got in trouble for going over on my shift because I was just dealing with this one fucking person buying us out of things like bleach or toothpaste or what have you and have this huge line and have people get mad at me and all I could think was you know I'd call up to my manager ask for help and never get it and then get yelled at for either going over on my hours or not stocking the shelves or having a wine it's like I can't do all of this on my own
I’m sure someone has said this already, but the “Rain Check” isn’t a thing every where in the US. I’ve only been to one shop that still honored Rain Checks and it was only valid for one coupon use.
When I worked for ASDA they had tiny discounts on the bottom of each receipt for this price match thing. You were supposed to use it to get a couple of pounds off of your next shop, but some people would bring in hundreds of receipts for us to scan to get their total down to like 10p. We started to realise these people were taking everyone else's receipts out of the bins so we had to put a limit on them!
Why did you have to limit them? What's the difference who uses the receipt discount? If 5 people throw their receipts away and I collect them plus my own why is that a problem?
@@MK-hh1vo I think the managers saw it as not their discounts to use because you get the discount based on the price of your shop, so to have £50 worth of discounts you will have had to spend hundreds, and these people hadn't done that. I never actually found out if there's official terms and conditions stating that it has to be your receipt though!
@@xTashaJaydex 🤔 But the "hundreds" were already spent at the store; the store got paid and issued promised discounts; why does it matter who redeems them? Unless there's a "non-transferable" stamp, once the discount is issued the store has no say in who redeems it. Maybe I'll give my receipts to my sister so she'll have extras. It's not the store's call. 🧐 And VERY shady that there's no stament that receipts MUST be yours only. I'd probably try to sue that store on principle.
I always thought the TLC channel was the "Let's exploit people with mental disorders/issues. It won't matter since we're paying them $50 per episode they're in" type of channel. This show pretty much proved my point.
7:29 In America, it is incredibly typical to have multiple pamphlets of "junk mail" show up in your mailbox at least 2 twice a week. These are essentially coupons and promotions for the stores around your neighborhood. Couponers will ask around their neighborhood for the ones people don't want. While this can get into hoarding behavior please most extreme couponers have large families and low budgets, so what looks like an ungodly amount of toilet paper may be just enough for the whole family for half a year. Why not get 6 months of home basics for free. This can be summed up by the cultural differences in America vs. Britain. We have fewer social safety nets for the people living pay-check-to-pay-check, so they have to resort to stockpiling to save money.
Oh man we would get that here in Australia, but they were just catalogues no vouchers or coupons and it at least 3 times a week. I swear they would watch to see when we would take them out of our letter box and go and put more in. Until I stuck a "no junk mail" sign on the letterbox. It was so ridiculous. Coupons for grocery doesn't really happen here in Australia either. We might get a coupon for fast food, but it would be like 2 for 1 deals
@@callmewaves1160 and they’d slowly pile up in and around peoples mail boxes and it would it rain and they’d be scattered about and sticking outside the slots…yeah my no junk mail sign fell off it was hell
Lived in two states, three cities in usa. I haven't gotten those mailed coupons in more than two decades. I worked in a library. We recycled our coupons from our newspapers rather than give them away. We had to because of the arguments with couponers demanding them.
@@profaneangel2556 why not give them to people in need? Anyone using a coupon wants to save money. You could have put them at the front of the library as first come first serve.
Working at Walmart at this time was HORRENDOUS. And yes, these kinds of things were happening and these people really do sometimes make money via coupons! Checking them out at the register made me so sick 🤢
I remember when this show came out! My parents used to clip a ton of coupons for us to clip when we were on really hard times. This show highlighted exploits and changed how they got used after it got popular! Side note: majority of the episodes are from the same franchise of super market as well.
As someone who used to work for a large grocery store chain in America for a year, shit like this happens occasionally, but not nearly to this extent. I can vividly remember this crazy old cat lady would come in, mind you she smelled like a litter box, and would buy like 50-100 cans of cat food which she made me double bag into paper bags. She would then use like 20 coupons, and if they didn't have enough cat food on the shelf, she would ask for rain checks. She'd leave with like 20 rain checks, each one I had to individually write up for her. It was horrible.
I live in the US and I was a cashier at Walgreens and we got a lot of extreme coupon people. A few times a week someone would come in and clear out all our shampoos, razors, or deodorants and leave with probably 100+ items and only pay a few dollars. We normally would only have one cashier at a time so it would be really time consuming and hold up the line but they were always some of the friendliest customers so it was hard to stay frustrated.
You should definitely react to the episode of this where it's a teenager doing this for their whole family. I remember that one because I thought it a little strange that a kid has to worry about the cost of groceries....
I remember coming home from college and watching my mom clipping coupons while watching this show like "WE'RE GOING TO SAVE SO MUCH MONEY!" It was a wild time in American suburbia. 😅
This show was absolutely insane. It blew my mind seeing people's houses filled to the brim with stuff and yet would still go for more. They even had people dumpster diving for coupons with their kids. But for the most part, if you saw one episode, you saw them all.
I use to love this show and always thought “this would be amazing to have all this stuff and save so much money!!” I never stopped to think this was excessive until y’all said it and I then was like .. “oh shit yeah it is.. wow” and now I feel like my American is showing
Watching this gives me flashbacks of childhood tv lol. Coming from a lower class fam, there was always a lot of stigma around “leeching off the government” even though personally it was more like a “get what you can” in my fam, so it makes sense to me now that back then and even now, there’s a want for bliss independence so much so that ppl and families will do any and everything they can to avoid making ends meet while looking like they’re not struggling and/or being seen as using food stamps or wic (which are food finances given by our Human Resources when we don’t make a certain amount of money annually)
I actually used to do this (during this time period) but I never had a big stockpile hoard like these folks. I mainly got what we needed and extra of things like detergent or beauty stuff that wouldn't expire before I could use it. We even had a local shop that would give you free items if you found an expired one on the shelf (you'd bring the expired milk and also a good one to the register). I easily paid half the grocery cost during those days but it really was like a part time job to keep up with it and once we were in a better financial situation I stopped doing it aggressively. I still do it now if a sale on non perishables or non food items catch my eye. I donate the extra stuff to a food pantry and when I find toys like this they go to children's charities at Christmas. I know a lot of people do donate the excess that way. I was also told by other couponers back in the day that Mormon families are encouraged to have a 3 month stockpile for their family by their church. (Seems very end of days type of thing to me). And lastly, YES, I did get paid for shopping sometimes. It always felt wild but some stores allowed it. After this show gained popularity many places made policies stricter though.
Yeah I’m glad you mentioned the Mormon stockpiling thing- my friemd had 7 siblings plus a mom and a dad so 9 people in total in her family and her mom was a couponer and their stockpile took up the entire basement pantry + the cupboards pantry and also I think she kept extra in her bedroom closet. My grandmother was also a cuponer and her stockpile was also mostly non perishable things like laundry detergent and TP/paper towels. She would also basically let her kids (my aunts and uncles) shop at her stockpile for free.
5:42 regarding the weird sales tax thing in North America: If you're in Canada as a tourist and buy stuff in stores you should always save your receipts. You can hand/send them in when you leave the country and you get all the sales tax back. Don't ask me where exactly you do it (my parents handled that) It may be worth looking into if the US does a similar thing
YESSS! I remember being so weirded out that people can do this. I'm just weird I guess because I would do this to donate it all to the food banks and shelters 😅
Right?! It blows my mind that people just hold on to it. There is an episode with a woman who has no children who bought like 70 packs of newborn diapers. Never donated them or anything, just kept them.
@@OpulentPomegranate that is just wild… and a waste… donate them to a refuge, or a shelter, or a maternity ward. So many people would be STOKED to get free nappies!
So I worked at a grocery store around this time in the USA. These people were absolutely loathed by staff, and often they would steal the coupons from the papers in the morning. Otherwise they would literally spend $50+ a week in news papers just for the coupons. That would also annoy not only workers, but other customers, because each store gets a specific delivery of each newspaper and they would buy them all up for the coupons. At that point you are either spending a ton of money on the paper (and wasting it), or at the very least, becoming a pariah at the local shops. Either way, not great behavior. There are now many stores with policies against this sort of couponing. It would be very hard to do this now, which is unfortunate for those who the good coupons helped.
I’m from Ohio and extreme couponing is/was ridiculously popular here to the point that a lot of our grocery stores changed their policies. Certain items you can only buy a set amount and if those items are on sale you can only get like 2 per checkout order. You use to be able to put your used coupons in a little bin at self checkout but now you have to wait for the attendant and they will key it in and take the coupon after. There are other policies too so I know those stores and workers were complaining and over it.
I worked at grocery stores here in the US. Because of these shows almost all stores now have a strict limit on how many coupons one customer can use. Thank God! I always felt bad for the customers stuck behind them at checkout.
There are all sorts of hidden disappointments within America, not just the sales tax. Also FYI the manufacturer of the product that the coupon is used to buy reimburses the store for the coupon money.
During the early days of COVID with the great TP and sanitizer shortage, a local extreme couponer opened a “store” in her house. One of the things people do with the excess here is re sell them on Marketplace or at the swap meets.
I didn't watch this show much as a kid, but when you mentioned "male pantyliners" it triggered a memory of the only episode I saw parts of, which was when this young guy who was into couponing had a coupon for pads or tampons or something and *didn't know what they were* but bought them anyway in case he ever needed them because they were apparently such a good deal.
The venn diagram between extreme couponers and doomsday peppers is practically just a circle. I live in Oregon and we have no sales tax; I always forget when I travel to other states that the tax isn't included in the listed price and end up having to do quick math at the register. 😅 The money back was mail in rebate, meaning the rebate is in/on the box, and you mail it in to the company to get money back or a voucher, so they wouldn't have been given cash at the register.
I was raised in a family with 8 children and my mom was an extreme couponer who had a full binder and everything. My parents were preppers which means they stockpiled supplies for what they thought would be an inevitable apocalypse (during the Obama administration). We were also in a religious cult but that’s beside the point. 😅 America is a strange place.
I remember one episode where at the end of the transaction the store actually had to give the customer money. So she'd actually earned money on over $1000 of stuff
I love how appalled you are that people are able to get away with this. In the US, the “customer is always right”, so if you don’t let them check out separately, they’ll throw a fit and call corporate.
This show always drove me nuts as someone from who growing up was under the poverty line at one point. These people doing what so many have to for fun and hoarding kills me. People like them make it so so many people can't get shit
Can't wait for you to watch some of these where they buy literal pallets of Gatorade and such and only pay $10. Some of them do wonderful charitable things, donating to needy families or food banks, or making care packages for soldiers in the middle east. You always react to the most fascinating stuff! I've watched most of it when it was new so its great to watch again w you and w fresh perspective. Props as always!! 🖤💜🖤
lol in america now most coupons say you can’t use them with another offer, however 10-20 years ago alottt of them didn’t say that so you would hunt for THOSE coupons or have them ring you up on multiple receipts
This show always blew my mind!! I love a good coupon story, but these ppl are ridiculous. They are why coupon laws/rules have changed over the years. A lot of ppl where I live coupon and then resell the items. It's pretty gross. Especially since I know they are over charging for items that they didn't pay full price for, or if they actually paid for the item. Rubs me the very wrong way.
I bet Roly would get as angry as me at the cashiers. They scan every single item once, and not counting them first and enter "27 x" on the keyboard and then scan only 1 item. 🤣
Some grocery stores don’t want cashiers using the quantity key because they want to make sure all the different varieties are correctly scanned (vanilla, strawberry, chocolate ice cream, different soups, different sodas, etc) but yes it’s annoying.
I'm only 8 minutes in and I have to say that I had a housemate like that in college - he absolutely had a hording problem. I rented a tiny bedroom and the rest of the house, abandoned car outside and 2-car garage was FULL of groceries. From cans to old freezers of stuff that "was on sale" or a coupon deal. This man wasn't feeding a village or even a family for that matter. It gave him great pleasure to know it was all there if he ever needed it. Mind you, this was up North in the USA where you could be trapped in your house due to snow. However, a basic pantry will get you through a week of being snowed-in and that hasn't happened in I can't remember when...very rare to have back-to-back snow storms keep you isolated for more than a few days. While he was showing me all of his stuff, I did notice expired dates on things, so he wasn't concerned, just like a horder. He was in it for the "thrill of the hunt" of a great deal.
Yeah, couponing definitely feels very American. In Puerto Rico we do get them, but people get super confused when you ACTUALLY try to use them. My grandma once brought a coupon for 10¢ off and they called a whole manager to certify they could accept the coupon. Though this was also a few years now, idk if anything’s changed.
I’m confused. You’re part of the America sis💁🏽♀️🤦🏽♀️. Also, most states don’t actually use coupons. This ain’t even a nationwide phenomenon. That’s part of why the show itself was so popular because it was something many people in America didn’t see before.
@@AnonyMous-lh3cm No, Puerto Rico is NOT part of the US. It’s a territory (i.e. owned) that isn’t even recognized by most Americans. We also don’t have the same rights as Americans, so until any of that changes, please don’t refer to PR as part of the US. I can’t speak for everyone but a lot of us don’t identify that way. I’ve also only lived in one state of the US for a couple years, so I would have no idea whether or not this is accurate to large parts of the US or not. I have as much insight as Luxeria does on the topic.
@@moe9868 Being a territory literally MAKES it a part of the country. That’s literally what a territory is. If you’re born in Puerto Rico you are considered a natural born US Citizen. You are given a social security number at birth, you are included in the census, and you as a natural born citizen can not be denied entrance or access to anywhere in the US, nor do you ever have to apply for a visa, a green card or take a citizenship test. Puerto Rico doesn’t have STATE HOOD, it is still however part of the US as a territory. Thanks for trying to check me and assume I’m uneducated and have no idea what I’m talking about💁🏽♀️💅🏽
The rights you’re referring to are rights that citizens of a STATE are granted. Washington DC is also a TERRITORY not a STATE, they lack the SAME states rights as Puerto Rico does and yet it’s LITERALLY also the nations capital and where the White House is located. YOU not considering yourself American doesn’t change the fact that legally the rest of the world recognizes you as American💅🏽
Happy New Year/ New Series reaction!! I remember this show. It didn’t make me want to go this extreme, but it certainly did motivate me to use coupons more. Also, can you imagine if women like these worked for a non-profit who cared for homeless, or a women’s shelter, and put all this savvy to work for the benefit of people other than their own family. They would be such an asset to their communities.
Some couponers actually sell the products at discounted prices. It's illegal but not uncommon. I was in a Facebook group where my friend sold her hauls for low prices. Purchasing from her helped me through very hard financial times.
One of my girlfriends does this! She focuses on personal care and does baskets for women's shelters and such. Her collection of binders and spreadsheets is NUTS.
I worked at a grocery store and there were limits on coupons only one of each type could be used so no way would these tips have worked. I've never understood stocking up on so much stuff unless you are working for a food bank or something!
This show is crazy but I’m so obsessed with it! It’s so difficult to use ONE coupon in the UK never mind 100+. There’s one episode that I distinctively remember where the son of the the family (I think he was like 15 years old at the time of filming) did all the shopping for the house with his coupon obsession, definitely worth a watch especially since he was so young
Here’s me thinking me bulk buying 2 of those bottles of mustard that expire in 2025 from Costco is excessive 😂 Absolutely loved watching along with you both but I have to say, that top is gorgeous! Could I get the link please? 🖤
im in the us and i figured the tax thing was to make people buy more because it looks less expensive and because tax rates for sales tax are different in every state so maybe they just don't want to deal with the effort idk
Ok so you two are pretty much single handedly carrying me through my bachelor thesis and my first ever breakup and I will always be grateful for having a reason to laugh because of you. I love love love your content and wish both of you the absolute best 💕
Couponing always seems like so much effort, my partner just took ONE coupon for a discount on a saucepan and then had to go to three different locations to the same chain of shop just to find the right shop with the right saucepan that matched the coupon that he withdrew in the first shop and they all quoted different prices in each shop... Edit: Also what? Daddy lost his job but don't worry kids we've got 60 bottles of mustard?? I've had the misfortune of being homeless at one point in my life, and even I wouldn't want that much mustard...it seems so wasteful!!
Yeah, the stores decide whether they'll participate in a coupon or deal offered by the franchise company. It's frustrating when you just wanted to buy the one thing.
The people on this show are shopping addicts. It's a high to see the total price go up and then down. Also they think they're in control of their money, in the same way Anorexics and Bulimics think they're in control of their weight.
and regarding the extra drama ; in the states as long as it's a different bill, even if they're together it's fine., and people do really coupon like that; and food can be frozen so that it doesn't go bad, also share it with extended family
I did see one episode where one of these extreme couponers donated their entire shopping hoard to a women’s shelter. She essential used her skill to buy thousands of dollars of tampons, pads and other products for virtually nothing and donated them all to a women’s shelter for abused women.
At least she did it for a good reason, some other folks were just hoarding
@@deltasaves agreed. That's def a good reason to shop like this
See I feel like thats different then a lot of these people. Using your skills to get tampons and pads for free to help struggling women is showing a level of kindness and compassion. Same goes for pastors/ people who run foodbank and do this. but the majority seem to have a fuck you got mine mentality. (side note I worked in a dollar store where people would extream coupon and they are some of the meanist people I ever met in my life)
This is exactly what I was thinking of doing, I’d use this coupons for food banks, especially since so many more starve in America in the last decade
Thank you, I was going to ask if anyone else remembered the ONE person on this show who donated the surplus so it wasn't a waste and others got help.
This woman could literally put her "talents" towards running an entire food bank for people who cannot afford essentials. And she would still have well enough for herself
Yuppp
There was one episode where the lady who is couponing does it to donate to the local food bank. It’s the only time this show didn’t put me on edge from all of the waste. When they fill their basements with random shampoos and soaps, it just looks like an organized landfill
I was looking for this comment! I remember that episode, it was really sweet.
Theres actually several episodes like this!
I think it was this show, there was a woman who set up her garage with the items and neighbors had access to the garage to take what they needed.
I remember the one with the student with a kid that lived with her parents, she had them stay after they closed just because of her greed.
I got in a few YT fights trying to explain that no she don’t need 100s of Oreo cups.
It is nice when you see them donating to help others.
People in real need take only what they need I’ve found.
They usually sell it
As a former cashier in an American grocery store I actually loved the coupon people. It broke up the monotony of the normal customers 😂. Also, the manufacturers reimburse the store for the price of the coupon so the store doesn't lose any money, just the manufacturers. Since this show I've heard companies offer wayyy less coupons lol.
There was a mormon family I knew who came to our trader Joe's and after they cleared shelves once, the manager came to wring them up and they worked out a deal for the family to just bulk buy and have it delivered.
But I guess the goal of component isn't to feed the family 💀✋ its to get the food for free
@@kamilareeder1493win-win!
This show was so insane. Those people in the store clapping were probably clapping because they'll finally leave because you know there was a line behind them.
It’s so bizarre isn’t it???
I do feel bad for the staff at those places
Probably clapping for the poor cashier
These people are so selfish I don't know I've been locking my door is going on over here she comes again
@@Luxeria The second couple shown Tiffany & Paul became millionaires in the MLM Lularoe. When they left the company they were one of the few high up consultants that spoke out against the wrong doings of the company when things got bad. Then they started their own boutique selling on Facebook live to their customers. I used to see some of their live sales and they seemed like very down to earth nice people.
This show is older, and in the last decade or so (in part because of content like this show), coupon policies have gotten way more strict in the U.S. So stuff like this is way harder, or essentially impossible, at this point. That said, I do miss seeing the people who donated most of what they got.
wait so people absolutely overdoing it ruined it for people who actually NEED it
Yeah, I also wouldn't be surprised if aggressive couponing is part of the reason so many retailers went to the Loyalty Program model of discounting and coupon offers. That way they have not only more control of what coupons are coming in their system (since many policies make it and either/or thing where any one item can be discounted by a manufacturer's coupon or a store's but not both) and can also encourage customers to choose their stores more specifically since loyalty programs often offer transaction total discounts or at least points per dollar spent. That at least offsets the FTE put into dealing with certain coupons by bringing the client back to spend more money than they'd ever save from a particular coupon.
@@alisha6341 when I worked at rite aid in high school, this guy would come it every Sunday and buy multiple expensive items that he was obviously going to resell. Like tons of razor blades, printer ink, teeth whitening strips etc. He brought so many coupons his total would ALWAYS COME OUT TO LESS THAN ONE DOLLAR. We changed the store policy because of him, and I had to deal with his temper tantrum when I said it’s now limit 2 per customer.
@@AA-yc9dq 😆 good for his greedy ass 👏 🤣
I do some pretty dedicated couponing and deal looking (not to this crazy psychotic extent) and if you get a variety of things on sale vs the exact same items it does save you a ton of money. I generally have different stores for different items (like Kroger has my coffee for way cheaper, but Walmart has my dog food for cheaper. Aldi has the cheese I like for cheaper and walgreens has the detergent I use generally on sale for way less). Just gotta know what you want, where to get it, and just go regularly while you can still get the sale. Like when walgreens puts my detergent on sale, I'll get 4 every few days until they run out (which they don't stock much anyway) or until the sale ends, then use what I have until I'm down to just 2 and start over. Same concept with baby food, especially now with the shortage it's very important I find coupons and discounts where I can and buy it out for my preemie daughter.
I love that you had to twist it just to get it working without copyright 😂😂😂
Is that why? 🤣🤣🤣
I was wondering why. Lol
wait I didn't even notice it before reading that comment lmao
I can't believe whoever trained TH-cam's copyright detection AI didn't bother training it on rotated images 😂😂.
You were so focused on this one Roly
In the US, we get stacks of coupons in the mail two or three times a week. In our building, the postal worker just leaves a huge stack on the table in the hall, and that usually goes straight into the bin. So, no, there is no reason to buy newspapers.
That said, at that time I think papers only cost $1 each.
Guilty party here!
I used to extreme coupon back in the day when it was still allowed. I was able to donate 300 baby bottles to a family shelter, 175 blankets to the animal shelter, and I didn't pay for laundry detergent for 3 years- all for free.
Can't do it now though 😑
That is so good though!
That's actually really great! There was a man in one of these episodes who did the same. I believe he'd grown up kind of poor so when he was living a comfortable life, he decided to use couponing to donate to the local food bank.
Amazing! This is what it should have been all about. 😭🖤
That’s amazing. Donating is very generous
Yeah these shows really led to the demise of homemakers saving for their families. They exposed all our secrets, and now I can barely get any decent coupons online like I used to, also the newspaper hasn’t had a coupon sheet in there for years now. At least where I reside.
I went to a “couponing class” with a friend once that basically taught you their process. They recommend getting four copies of the Sunday paper that has all the coupons and then you have a filing system at home. You don’t cut the coupons right away. You file them away and then follow this couponing blog that tells you what’s on sale. The blog will be like, “Kellogg’s cereal is buy one get one free this week at this grocery store. Go to your file to this specific week and pull this coupon for $4 off one box. Then buy four boxes to get all four boxes free.” I don’t have the patience for all that.
Damn, I need to take that class. XD You’re a mom by chance?
What the hell!!? If these people have time to go to a "couponing course", then they have the time to go look for a job. Coupons were originally designed to help out low income families, but people are now just abusing that out of greed.
I'm in Australia, but we know all about what goes on with couponing in the U.S. And I've come to notice that most of the people that do "extreme couponing" are upper middle class Karens. They go in wearing their designer label clothes, shoes and handbags, with their gold and diamond rings, and use coupons to "buy" every single item off the shelf - leaving nothing for those who really are in need. And because these women have done this, the people who actually rely on coupons can no longer use them.
They should stop wasting money on their expensive clothing and use that money to feed their family!!
@@samanthafairweather9186 Almost all families are below the poverty line in America. We have two full time, higher wage, hourly jobs, and three teenagers. We don’t buy extra or travel. We buy all of our clothes at thrift shops. We usually don’t make it from one paycheck to the next, and prices of everything never stops rising. We don’t qualify for food from the food bank. I honestly don’t blame anyone for stealing in this country.
@samanthafairweather9186 lots of times those families spend money on those designer/namebrand clothes because they are trying to show the world they had money when in reality their labels are being bought at second hand stores or handed down from older kids. There are clothing exchanges as well for adults that people will host to freshen up their wardrobe. In my experience it is common that some of the people with the most need wear these labels.
I watched one of these one time where the couponer was in charge of stocking the pantry for a non-profit shelter which makes so much more sense than all of these crazy people hoarding food. Also I live in America and every single one of our grocery stores say no doubling of coupons there's a coupon per transaction limit there's a number of items you can buy limit. I honestly don't think extreme couponing even exists anymore except for in maybe small towns.
Probably because of this show 🤣🤣
Extreme couponing was a thing back then, then this show came out and groceries didn't like being " manipulated" in such a way. So they fixed it. Lol. But online you can find saving in coupons. Lije but 10 fir a specific price of 30 to 50 cents off per can. Too much effort for new I tell ya
There were serval who donated to homeless shelters, woman's shelters
That's coupons being used for the right thing. The people who did "extreme couponing" even though the could afford to buy designer label clothes and stuff, ruined it for the people that actually needed coupons to get by. Because of those greedy types, now others are paying the price, and it's not right.
I want a "Where Are They Now?" on these couponers 😗
Still drinking mustard no doubt hahaha
@@sarina1234fulif you eat cereal drowned in mustard for every meal, you get a taste for it!
Probably TikTokers now.
It's ridiculous how much easier life would be if they just included tax to the price before you check out!! haha
Yes! You must petition the state people!
I agree AND we would need to have the same sales tax everywhere so that it could be done easily.
@@efrenespinoza4513 that's why it'll never happen
There's no tax on food or clothing in my state, and a few others.
@@fallenfaerie1020 and there are some states with no sales tax whatsoever. Getting everyone to agree on what can be taxed and at what percentage would be a nightmare.
My mom *definitely* went on a "I'm gonna be an extreme couponer!" trip after this show started airing, she got herself a special binder and a wallet just for coupons and everything.
It didn't last more than 2 months lol
How much time did it take everyday when she was doing it? Cuz I always wonder how much Daily time these people devote to this
@@TheNormExperience she would do it in bursts on her days off work. She would spend like 3-5 hours maybe 3 days a week, looking through different websites, apps and Facebook groups, then printing, cutting, and organizing them, making lists...
I did that but mainly concentrated on deodorant, shampoo, conditioner, bodywash and paper products. Told my kids there's no way anyone should stink in my house....lol...my oldest daughter doesn't coupon like I did, but she does watch her budget and makes the most of her money
@@elizabethjohnston8193 how’d u get started ? 😲 it’s honestly amazing to me that ppl can pull this off
I’ve watched a ton of this show when it aired and the cashiers always look absolutely dead inside lol, imagine someone showing up to your minimum wage job and spending 4 hours scanning coupons? I’d cry in the break room after.
as someone who worked as a cashier at the very beginning of the pandemic, i can assure you crying in the break room became an essential part of my workday
Idk I used to work as a cashier for a time, and it was quite bland and boring. So if a crazy person like that would come up and create drama at the store as others wait in line it would be hilarious change of pace.
Hence why Roly couldn't watch this without going berserk.
You get paid the same either way.
When Craigslist got more popular and covered smaller cities, I remember seeing people in my city that did extreme couponing, then advertised their stash on there as a kind of “grocery store” that was half price of the regular store.
They’d set up their garage with shelves and shelves and handwritten signs on everything with the prices.
Every once in a while you’ll still see people advertising the same thing on Facebook Marketplace but the “stores” are usually smaller than they were in the 2010s.
As a child who once saw this once, I literally sat there while my mom could barely buy anything even with the use of coupons and this lady swooped by and took the entire stock of lucky charms which was the one cereal me and my siblings liked
Gosh it’s so unnecessary isn’t it!
i feel this pain
@@sarahramsey289 if they have the passion and the talent for this coupon craziness, they should do it and donate a lot of it rather than hoard and waste
@@rosieweaselby COMPLETELY AGREE. They could go from greedy psychopaths who need an adult to monitor their shopping, to being a responsible person who helps the world. Sadly they are far too psychotic and selfish
@@rosieweaselby specially if they have gone through rough times…they should know better. Anyway, this looks like some kind of disorder
The fact that the register lady had to MANUALLY put the coupons in stressed me out 😅
Yup, Luxeria guessed correctly. Extreme couponing is totally a trauma response. You have to look for newspapers and find a bunch of coupons, organize them, plan your shopping trips, ensure your calculations are correct, and make space for the items in your home. It becomes it’s own job without having to declare income or rely on an employer. My old coworker would do it and it sounded miserable.
These people think they're in control of their money, for the exact same reason that Anorexics and Bulimics think they're in control of their weight.
You all hit the nail on the head with everything. Yes, after this show came out stores started limiting everything in correlation with coupons. Yes a lot of them are hoarders but there are some that donate a lot of their things. They basically coupon for the thrill of it and then donate most of their items, those people are lovely.
Oh wow this is giving me such flashbacks. I remember when extreme couponing was HUGE here and being stuck in lines behind women with massive binders just overflowing with coupons and several carts full of items they could never use before they went bad. The worst part was always when they would just literally SCREAM at the poor cashiers if they has an expired coupon, that happened so often and I always felt SO bad for the poor people just trying to do their jobs and get everyone checked out as fast as possible.
I would probably just ditch my shopping and leave, I can't even imagine. That's before self checkout became a thing!
I used to binge this show when it was on Netflix like 8ish years ago. The saddest episode is when one of the cashiers is talking about the customer causing and worsening her carpal tunnel and the extreme pain it caused her when the couponer came in for shopping. God that broke my heart.
What I don’t like about this show is how it emphasizes the “weird behavior” that people do to sustain themselves (and how it might lead to overconsumption). The show doesn’t go into how large grocery stores and food companies exploit people and waste food, which is a much, much greater source of waste.
This! I wholeheartedly support taking income from giant chain stores. As long as they donate or at least share the "spoils"
its so wild seeing Roly without tattoos
This show was nuts. These couponers would spend literal hours in a store. Not to mention how absolutely time consuming it seemed to be to collect all of these coupons in the first place and put them neatly into binders. Some cases these people would buy stuff they just didn't need and put it in their huge ass storage room for these things. Like, I feel as if this one person bought a bunch of wet cat food yet she had no cats???
There was one episode that I actually did like. There was this guy who grew up kind of poor so he learnt about couponing and when he was living a comfortable life, he decided to use couponing as a tool to get a bunch of food and hygiene products to donate to a local food bank.
So in the US they don't have an expiracion date on coupons and you can collect them in different magasines?
@@teijaflink2226 I think what these people did was weekly, they'd either buy a bunch of papers, people would give them their papers, or something they'd get them out of a dumpster and would get a ton of different coupons. Couponing basically seems almost like a full time job the way these people do it. They sort through papers, cut out different coupons, research the sales, put them neatly in binders, then are shopping for hours the day they go to the grocery store.
But there are also apparently coupons that never expire or won't expire for awhile. But most do have expiration dates.
See I never had an issue when it was a reverend or if it was someone from a local charity who was couponing and buying bulk items at the shop that I worked at because you got the understanding that this wasn't just for them they weren't buying you know 400 boxes of toothpaste because they were recording toothpaste it was literally so that they could help the community but just buying stuff for the sake of buying stuff because you have a coupon just doesn't make sense to me
@@photofreak56 Yeah, exactly. There was a woman who'd allow people to come in and take what they needed so she was constantly running out because she let her neighborhood take whatever they needed. She like the guy I mentioned had went through a period where she struggled. She'd just gotten divorced and had a young child so she wanted to help others. They made sense. But then there'd be others who'd just buy things because they had a coupon, even if they didn't need or like that thing. Like there was one woman who had dog flea collars or medicine or something because she believed it made her stockpile look pretty.
Y’all should continue! I can’t explain the shock of seeing a cashier hand cash TO a customer, and it wasn’t her change, the store gave HER money! How insane is that?!
It's just wild to me that that was possible
I have some sympathy for these women and their families. I see much of this as a symptom of American policies and culture. This was filmed in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, which devastated much of America's middle and working classes. When you combine that with the gendered division of household labor, many women who wanted to help support their families in tough times likely did not have the formal skills to join the job market. As a result, I see these women focusing their effort and ingenuity to the sphere they were socialized into, i.e. housework and Grocery shopping. The couponing likely allowed these women to feel in control of their rocky financial situations and like they could materially contribute to the welfare of their family. (I'm not saying this was the practical outcome. I think you were spot on in saying this was a trauma response and that their purchases were irrational.)
As for advising people to not have kids unless they can afford it. That's difficult advice to follow when many parts of the US limit information about and access to birth control.
I love you Luxeria! 💗 You always extend empathy and understanding to the subjects of these shows. I just wanted to give some US-based context that may have influenced these families.
Due to this exact show and the "raiding" you guys talked about, in America we're now only allowed to use 1 coupon pure item or shopping session. You guys are amazing and always make me laugh so much! 😂😂😂 Love you! ❤
I remember the height of the couponing craze, you couldn't find a coupon to save your life! I had a neighbor that got caught stealing the coupon pages out of everyone else's papers before everyone woke up!
I worked as a Customer service manager for a grocery store chain when this was popular, and the company reissued their coupon policy as well as their bulk buying limits at that time. It made some people upset but it genuinely was better for overall customer satisfaction and employee benefit.
I remember watching this show when I was younger and being SUPER jealous. I’m from NYC and this type of couponing is VERY suburban/rural/“middle America”. You could NEVER do this in a major metropolitan city. There have always been item limits, number of coupon limits, and restrictions to which stores you can use a coupon in that make it so you can’t buy a store out of merchandise with a coupon. Also the prices are so marked up here that even with a coupon on a sale item, you will never get it for free.
Many people see shows like this and are like “The US is super weird!” But different states (and even different cities within the same state) can vary greatly. While someone in a rural or semi-rural location Kansas might watch this show and relate to it and be able to start doing something like this, someone in urban New York is watching it with the same curiosity and disbelief as you 👀
Also, some people in the later seasons do explain that they donate many of the items to shelters, churches, and other outreach places.
Agree it doesn’t work like this in big cities.
Fellow New Yorker here, can 100 percent confirm this does NOT fly here. And even if the stores allowed it, anyone holding up a checkout line with books of coupons and a cart full of mustard and toilet papers is asking for a thrashing
People who aren’t in the US seem to forget how big it is and how different states and places are 😩
I don't know if most people would agree but the US kinda reminds me of having 50 angry countries superglued together with an angry parent trying to force them all to get along. At least in France and Britain you can look at the other European countries and kinda go, "we don't know them" but in the US, we're just... stuck with it 😂
@@hellomoron It didn't use to be this way, but it sure is now. That's what happens when a hateful party runs hateful candidates to whip up hate to get elected.
This is the duo that is absolutely necessary for 2022! Bringing us the joy & laughter, saying all that is controversial yet brave, including us all so we feel like true besties- Lux and Roly keeping the children fed! Much love🤘🖤✌️
Worked at a dollar store & had a regular that was an extreme couponer, she literally had the district manager come down to "investigate" then she got banned for raising a stink with him & now you're only allowed to use 2 coupons per transaction & only 2 consecutive transactions with coupons used. But she literally had hundreds of dollars worth of stuff that she only had to pay tax on (maybe 10 bucks). She constantly had "garage sales" & resold the stuff on facebook.
I used to work at a Publix Grocery store. The extreme couponer used to cause so much trouble they would try to alternate grocery stores from a 15 mile radios thinking we wouldn't remember their face when they came back. As soon as they would walk in the store we'd all be like "that crazy coupon lady is back get ready!"
@@Celtic_Amy I had one woman who was banned from the dollar store but I worked in because of using fraudulent coupons and she was one of these crazy coupon people she would have her kids go in one-by-one and buy stuff for her to the point that she had her five-year-old wants come up with like 17 bottles dish detergent and I just remember thinking what the fuck is this five-year-old doing with this much soap and then the little kid hands me coupons and says remember to I play the coupons after you apply the tax and I just thought what the fuck and my manager came out inside oh yeah we can't serve this kid she's here buying for her mother who's been banned like this was my maybe first week on the job and I had to learn that there were certain people banned from the store that would use their kids before coupons like these people are insane and don't get me wrong I understand poverty I'm a part of the American working port I'm on food stamps and Medicaid and I do try to use a few coupons when I go grocery shopping so that I can make my food stamps go a little bit farther but usually I only use maybe one or two a month
@@Celtic_Amy I had one woman who was banned from the dollar store but I worked in because of using fraudulent coupons and she was one of these crazy coupon people she would have her kids go in one-by-one and buy stuff for her to the point that she had her five-year-old wants come up with like 17 bottles dish detergent and I just remember thinking what the fuck is this five-year-old doing with this much soap and then the little kid hands me coupons and says remember to I play the coupons after you apply the tax and I just thought what the fuck and my manager came out inside oh yeah we can't serve this kid she's here buying for her mother who's been banned like this was my maybe first week on the job and I had to learn that there were certain people banned from the store that would use their kids before coupons like these people are insane and don't get me wrong I understand poverty I'm a part of the American working port I'm on food stamps and Medicaid and I do try to use a few coupons when I go grocery shopping so that I can make my food stamps go a little bit farther but usually I only use maybe one or two a month
Being an American and watching this show when it aired I can tell you some of these episodes are insane! I definitely think you guys should continue this series! I recently discovered both you and Roly’s channels and I am obsessed 🤩
As someone who worked retail stocking the shelves I can tell you how annoying it was to work hours in filling the shelves only to have a Karen come with her cart and clean out the shelves......and because we can't leave them empty I have to go get more from the back and start over again. It was never ending.
I would hate to be an employee at a store, that was featured on Extreme Couponing. Because I would get overloaded by what's happening and have a panic attack.
Yeah I worked the non foods stuff like shampoo, toothpaste, toilet paper garbage bags, razers ect. Pretty much a lot of what comes on coupons and it was just awful to work the days after the ads came out.
What are we sucked for me was when Dollar Tree started taking coupons we have these insane people come in and when you work at a Dollar Tree it's you and maybe one other person And so My manager who would never leave the office would leave me to stock the shells and check out people and there were times I got in trouble for going over on my shift because I was just dealing with this one fucking person buying us out of things like bleach or toothpaste or what have you and have this huge line and have people get mad at me and all I could think was you know I'd call up to my manager ask for help and never get it and then get yelled at for either going over on my hours or not stocking the shelves or having a wine it's like I can't do all of this on my own
“Thou shalt not pay retail”….I just screamed!! 🤣
I’m sure someone has said this already, but the “Rain Check” isn’t a thing every where in the US. I’ve only been to one shop that still honored Rain Checks and it was only valid for one coupon use.
Both target and Walmart do this at guest service
And CVS
Every store in America I've gone to does rain checks, I would know, my mom is the Karen of them >_>
@@CloudsAndCoffins that’s wild to me, maybe I’m just not going to the right places. Then again, I’m not the best coupon person. 😅
Not only does she not need all that yoghurt and mustard, she'll buy even more as soon as she has another coupon for it, it never ends!
When I worked for ASDA they had tiny discounts on the bottom of each receipt for this price match thing. You were supposed to use it to get a couple of pounds off of your next shop, but some people would bring in hundreds of receipts for us to scan to get their total down to like 10p. We started to realise these people were taking everyone else's receipts out of the bins so we had to put a limit on them!
Lmao my parents used to get us to find other peoples receipts in trolleys so we could get the petrol cheaper
Memory unlocked haha
Why did you have to limit them? What's the difference who uses the receipt discount? If 5 people throw their receipts away and I collect them plus my own why is that a problem?
@@MK-hh1vo I think the managers saw it as not their discounts to use because you get the discount based on the price of your shop, so to have £50 worth of discounts you will have had to spend hundreds, and these people hadn't done that. I never actually found out if there's official terms and conditions stating that it has to be your receipt though!
@@xTashaJaydex 🤔 But the "hundreds" were already spent at the store; the store got paid and issued promised discounts; why does it matter who redeems them? Unless there's a "non-transferable" stamp, once the discount is issued the store has no say in who redeems it. Maybe I'll give my receipts to my sister so she'll have extras. It's not the store's call.
🧐 And VERY shady that there's no stament that receipts MUST be yours only.
I'd probably try to sue that store on principle.
Can we just give a round of applause for lady at the till smashing it 👏 she so quick and wasn't even pissed at the nutty coupon addict.
I always thought the TLC channel was the "Let's exploit people with mental disorders/issues. It won't matter since we're paying them $50 per episode they're in" type of channel. This show pretty much proved my point.
Mental disorders and pedophiles, that’s TLC.
It be hilarious if all the fridge rated items spoiled from the time she waited for all the stuff to be rang up and bagged 😂
7:29 In America, it is incredibly typical to have multiple pamphlets of "junk mail" show up in your mailbox at least 2 twice a week. These are essentially coupons and promotions for the stores around your neighborhood. Couponers will ask around their neighborhood for the ones people don't want. While this can get into hoarding behavior please most extreme couponers have large families and low budgets, so what looks like an ungodly amount of toilet paper may be just enough for the whole family for half a year. Why not get 6 months of home basics for free. This can be summed up by the cultural differences in America vs. Britain. We have fewer social safety nets for the people living pay-check-to-pay-check, so they have to resort to stockpiling to save money.
Oh man we would get that here in Australia, but they were just catalogues no vouchers or coupons and it at least 3 times a week. I swear they would watch to see when we would take them out of our letter box and go and put more in. Until I stuck a "no junk mail" sign on the letterbox. It was so ridiculous. Coupons for grocery doesn't really happen here in Australia either.
We might get a coupon for fast food, but it would be like 2 for 1 deals
@@callmewaves1160 and they’d slowly pile up in and around peoples mail boxes and it would it rain and they’d be scattered about and sticking outside the slots…yeah my no junk mail sign fell off it was hell
@@91Vault right? I would always say "some poor tree died for this?!" Lol a terrible waste.
Lived in two states, three cities in usa. I haven't gotten those mailed coupons in more than two decades.
I worked in a library. We recycled our coupons from our newspapers rather than give them away. We had to because of the arguments with couponers demanding them.
@@profaneangel2556 why not give them to people in need? Anyone using a coupon wants to save money. You could have put them at the front of the library as first come first serve.
Working at Walmart at this time was HORRENDOUS. And yes, these kinds of things were happening and these people really do sometimes make money via coupons! Checking them out at the register made me so sick 🤢
I remember when this show came out! My parents used to clip a ton of coupons for us to clip when we were on really hard times. This show highlighted exploits and changed how they got used after it got popular!
Side note: majority of the episodes are from the same franchise of super market as well.
Really!? Wow! I’m not surprised rules changed!
As someone who used to work for a large grocery store chain in America for a year, shit like this happens occasionally, but not nearly to this extent. I can vividly remember this crazy old cat lady would come in, mind you she smelled like a litter box, and would buy like 50-100 cans of cat food which she made me double bag into paper bags. She would then use like 20 coupons, and if they didn't have enough cat food on the shelf, she would ask for rain checks. She'd leave with like 20 rain checks, each one I had to individually write up for her. It was horrible.
Omg I remember this show! It made a LOT of stores change their coupon policies…
I am fully not surprised!!
I live in the US and I was a cashier at Walgreens and we got a lot of extreme coupon people. A few times a week someone would come in and clear out all our shampoos, razors, or deodorants and leave with probably 100+ items and only pay a few dollars. We normally would only have one cashier at a time so it would be really time consuming and hold up the line but they were always some of the friendliest customers so it was hard to stay frustrated.
Ive always found this mental. Most coupons ive ever known is one coupon per customer per transaction! How was this allowed!
I think some stores in the south and Midwest allowed this. This wasn’t much of a New England thing.
A lot of people do extreme couponing and then donate the products to food pantries or shelters . Some sell the stuff they buy online for regular price
You should definitely react to the episode of this where it's a teenager doing this for their whole family. I remember that one because I thought it a little strange that a kid has to worry about the cost of groceries....
Yeah that was pretty disturbing. The parents parentified that child.
"Debra Meaden would sop" had me DYING lmaoo
I remember coming home from college and watching my mom clipping coupons while watching this show like "WE'RE GOING TO SAVE SO MUCH MONEY!" It was a wild time in American suburbia. 😅
In the US we literally get a pamphlet of coupons in our mailboxes weekly. You don’t even have to buy a newspaper.
This show was absolutely insane. It blew my mind seeing people's houses filled to the brim with stuff and yet would still go for more. They even had people dumpster diving for coupons with their kids. But for the most part, if you saw one episode, you saw them all.
Wait until she sees flavor of love show lol
I use to love this show and always thought “this would be amazing to have all this stuff and save so much money!!” I never stopped to think this was excessive until y’all said it and I then was like .. “oh shit yeah it is.. wow” and now I feel like my American is showing
You two are SO much fun!!! I'm in the US and this show ended up changing the policies in all of the grocery stores!!!
Watching this gives me flashbacks of childhood tv lol. Coming from a lower class fam, there was always a lot of stigma around “leeching off the government” even though personally it was more like a “get what you can” in my fam, so it makes sense to me now that back then and even now, there’s a want for bliss independence so much so that ppl and families will do any and everything they can to avoid making ends meet while looking like they’re not struggling and/or being seen as using food stamps or wic (which are food finances given by our Human Resources when we don’t make a certain amount of money annually)
I actually used to do this (during this time period) but I never had a big stockpile hoard like these folks. I mainly got what we needed and extra of things like detergent or beauty stuff that wouldn't expire before I could use it. We even had a local shop that would give you free items if you found an expired one on the shelf (you'd bring the expired milk and also a good one to the register). I easily paid half the grocery cost during those days but it really was like a part time job to keep up with it and once we were in a better financial situation I stopped doing it aggressively. I still do it now if a sale on non perishables or non food items catch my eye. I donate the extra stuff to a food pantry and when I find toys like this they go to children's charities at Christmas. I know a lot of people do donate the excess that way. I was also told by other couponers back in the day that Mormon families are encouraged to have a 3 month stockpile for their family by their church. (Seems very end of days type of thing to me). And lastly, YES, I did get paid for shopping sometimes. It always felt wild but some stores allowed it. After this show gained popularity many places made policies stricter though.
I suppose it could be worth it if you're a housewife or for what ever reason can't or don't have a job but if you can better put that time on a job.
With the way food and gas prices are going up, I sure would like a room stockpiled with essentials.
Yeah I’m glad you mentioned the Mormon stockpiling thing- my friemd had 7 siblings plus a mom and a dad so 9 people in total in her family and her mom was a couponer and their stockpile took up the entire basement pantry + the cupboards pantry and also I think she kept extra in her bedroom closet. My grandmother was also a cuponer and her stockpile was also mostly non perishable things like laundry detergent and TP/paper towels. She would also basically let her kids (my aunts and uncles) shop at her stockpile for free.
5:42 regarding the weird sales tax thing in North America:
If you're in Canada as a tourist and buy stuff in stores you should always save your receipts. You can hand/send them in when you leave the country and you get all the sales tax back. Don't ask me where exactly you do it (my parents handled that)
It may be worth looking into if the US does a similar thing
YESSS! I remember being so weirded out that people can do this. I'm just weird I guess because I would do this to donate it all to the food banks and shelters 😅
Donating things makes sense!
There is actually a lot of them that do this thankfully rather than just “stockpile”
Right?! It blows my mind that people just hold on to it. There is an episode with a woman who has no children who bought like 70 packs of newborn diapers. Never donated them or anything, just kept them.
@@OpulentPomegranate that is just wild… and a waste… donate them to a refuge, or a shelter, or a maternity ward. So many people would be STOKED to get free nappies!
@@rorybanwell4751 Right?! Giving them away to someone that needs them like you said. No point in keeping a bunch of something you’ll never need.
I just love watching you two comment crazy shows with your very wise words. Reminds me that there are still good people in this world ❤
So I worked at a grocery store around this time in the USA. These people were absolutely loathed by staff, and often they would steal the coupons from the papers in the morning. Otherwise they would literally spend $50+ a week in news papers just for the coupons. That would also annoy not only workers, but other customers, because each store gets a specific delivery of each newspaper and they would buy them all up for the coupons.
At that point you are either spending a ton of money on the paper (and wasting it), or at the very least, becoming a pariah at the local shops. Either way, not great behavior. There are now many stores with policies against this sort of couponing. It would be very hard to do this now, which is unfortunate for those who the good coupons helped.
I’d love to see another episode of this with you guys, they do sometimes send it all to charity which is nice
I’m from Ohio and extreme couponing is/was ridiculously popular here to the point that a lot of our grocery stores changed their policies. Certain items you can only buy a set amount and if those items are on sale you can only get like 2 per checkout order. You use to be able to put your used coupons in a little bin at self checkout but now you have to wait for the attendant and they will key it in and take the coupon after. There are other policies too so I know those stores and workers were complaining and over it.
Dude I know. My mom had her own coupon box. And now you have to get a certain size of sometime and you can only use like 3 of the same one
Yeah for sale items they limit it to 10-25 that you can even buy depending on w/e item so it makes the coupons only so useful.
GOOD
3:05 I love how you just holding his arm like a teddy
I worked at grocery stores here in the US. Because of these shows almost all stores now have a strict limit on how many coupons one customer can use.
Thank God! I always felt bad for the customers stuck behind them at checkout.
There are all sorts of hidden disappointments within America, not just the sales tax. Also FYI the manufacturer of the product that the coupon is used to buy reimburses the store for the coupon money.
During the early days of COVID with the great TP and sanitizer shortage, a local extreme couponer opened a “store” in her house. One of the things people do with the excess here is re sell them on Marketplace or at the swap meets.
That's horrible to do especially during a pandemic..
And then turns predatory
lol the toliet paper came in handy during the pandemic
I like how your “this is a bit hoardery” while sitting in front of an entire wall of funko pop heads. 🤣
There’s a difference between a neat tidy collection and hoarding things like a greedy dragon though 🐉
@@KingOfGaymes collecting is a type of hoarding (usually without the mental illness). Hoarding can be neat and orderly.
I didn't watch this show much as a kid, but when you mentioned "male pantyliners" it triggered a memory of the only episode I saw parts of, which was when this young guy who was into couponing had a coupon for pads or tampons or something and *didn't know what they were* but bought them anyway in case he ever needed them because they were apparently such a good deal.
The venn diagram between extreme couponers and doomsday peppers is practically just a circle.
I live in Oregon and we have no sales tax; I always forget when I travel to other states that the tax isn't included in the listed price and end up having to do quick math at the register. 😅
The money back was mail in rebate, meaning the rebate is in/on the box, and you mail it in to the company to get money back or a voucher, so they wouldn't have been given cash at the register.
I was raised in a family with 8 children and my mom was an extreme couponer who had a full binder and everything. My parents were preppers which means they stockpiled supplies for what they thought would be an inevitable apocalypse (during the Obama administration). We were also in a religious cult but that’s beside the point. 😅 America is a strange place.
I remember one episode where at the end of the transaction the store actually had to give the customer money. So she'd actually earned money on over $1000 of stuff
I love how appalled you are that people are able to get away with this. In the US, the “customer is always right”, so if you don’t let them check out separately, they’ll throw a fit and call corporate.
This show always drove me nuts as someone from who growing up was under the poverty line at one point. These people doing what so many have to for fun and hoarding kills me. People like them make it so so many people can't get shit
Can't wait for you to watch some of these where they buy literal pallets of Gatorade and such and only pay $10.
Some of them do wonderful charitable things, donating to needy families or food banks, or making care packages for soldiers in the middle east.
You always react to the most fascinating stuff! I've watched most of it when it was new so its great to watch again w you and w fresh perspective.
Props as always!! 🖤💜🖤
I love watching the ones with the couponer donating to charity.
lol in america now most coupons say you can’t use them with another offer, however 10-20 years ago alottt of them didn’t say that so you would hunt for THOSE coupons or have them ring you up on multiple receipts
This show always blew my mind!! I love a good coupon story, but these ppl are ridiculous. They are why coupon laws/rules have changed over the years. A lot of ppl where I live coupon and then resell the items. It's pretty gross. Especially since I know they are over charging for items that they didn't pay full price for, or if they actually paid for the item. Rubs me the very wrong way.
It's sad and also funny because every time you both were like "This can not be real." I was just over here like, "Welcome to America."
I bet Roly would get as angry as me at the cashiers. They scan every single item once, and not counting them first and enter "27 x" on the keyboard and then scan only 1 item. 🤣
😂
Some grocery stores don’t want cashiers using the quantity key because they want to make sure all the different varieties are correctly scanned (vanilla, strawberry, chocolate ice cream, different soups, different sodas, etc) but yes it’s annoying.
@@LL-ty7wr Yeah like Dollar Tree. 😅
I'm only 8 minutes in and I have to say that I had a housemate like that in college - he absolutely had a hording problem. I rented a tiny bedroom and the rest of the house, abandoned car outside and 2-car garage was FULL of groceries. From cans to old freezers of stuff that "was on sale" or a coupon deal. This man wasn't feeding a village or even a family for that matter. It gave him great pleasure to know it was all there if he ever needed it. Mind you, this was up North in the USA where you could be trapped in your house due to snow. However, a basic pantry will get you through a week of being snowed-in and that hasn't happened in I can't remember when...very rare to have back-to-back snow storms keep you isolated for more than a few days. While he was showing me all of his stuff, I did notice expired dates on things, so he wasn't concerned, just like a horder. He was in it for the "thrill of the hunt" of a great deal.
Yeah, couponing definitely feels very American. In Puerto Rico we do get them, but people get super confused when you ACTUALLY try to use them. My grandma once brought a coupon for 10¢ off and they called a whole manager to certify they could accept the coupon.
Though this was also a few years now, idk if anything’s changed.
It’s wild isn’t it!
I’m confused. You’re part of the America sis💁🏽♀️🤦🏽♀️. Also, most states don’t actually use coupons. This ain’t even a nationwide phenomenon. That’s part of why the show itself was so popular because it was something many people in America didn’t see before.
@@AnonyMous-lh3cm No, Puerto Rico is NOT part of the US. It’s a territory (i.e. owned) that isn’t even recognized by most Americans. We also don’t have the same rights as Americans, so until any of that changes, please don’t refer to PR as part of the US. I can’t speak for everyone but a lot of us don’t identify that way.
I’ve also only lived in one state of the US for a couple years, so I would have no idea whether or not this is accurate to large parts of the US or not. I have as much insight as Luxeria does on the topic.
@@moe9868 Being a territory literally MAKES it a part of the country. That’s literally what a territory is. If you’re born in Puerto Rico you are considered a natural born US Citizen. You are given a social security number at birth, you are included in the census, and you as a natural born citizen can not be denied entrance or access to anywhere in the US, nor do you ever have to apply for a visa, a green card or take a citizenship test. Puerto Rico doesn’t have STATE HOOD, it is still however part of the US as a territory. Thanks for trying to check me and assume I’m uneducated and have no idea what I’m talking about💁🏽♀️💅🏽
The rights you’re referring to are rights that citizens of a STATE are granted. Washington DC is also a TERRITORY not a STATE, they lack the SAME states rights as Puerto Rico does and yet it’s LITERALLY also the nations capital and where the White House is located. YOU not considering yourself American doesn’t change the fact that legally the rest of the world recognizes you as American💅🏽
Ughhh I love your strappy pentagram top!!! Shout out to the Totoro shirt, too ✨💜
Happy New Year/ New Series reaction!! I remember this show. It didn’t make me want to go this extreme, but it certainly did motivate me to use coupons more.
Also, can you imagine if women like these worked for a non-profit who cared for homeless, or a women’s shelter, and put all this savvy to work for the benefit of people other than their own family. They would be such an asset to their communities.
Some couponers actually sell the products at discounted prices. It's illegal but not uncommon. I was in a Facebook group where my friend sold her hauls for low prices. Purchasing from her helped me through very hard financial times.
I believe I have watched all the episodes of this show. Can't wait to watch them again with you this time 😁
😂😂😂😂😂😂🖤 this one was so tough to do so we will see!
One of my girlfriends does this! She focuses on personal care and does baskets for women's shelters and such. Her collection of binders and spreadsheets is NUTS.
I worked at a grocery store and there were limits on coupons only one of each type could be used so no way would these tips have worked. I've never understood stocking up on so much stuff unless you are working for a food bank or something!
Wow your make up here is absolute perfection here Luxeria 💕
This show is crazy but I’m so obsessed with it! It’s so difficult to use ONE coupon in the UK never mind 100+. There’s one episode that I distinctively remember where the son of the the family (I think he was like 15 years old at the time of filming) did all the shopping for the house with his coupon obsession, definitely worth a watch especially since he was so young
oh gosh, that little Big Ed insert made me realise how much I would love to see you two reacting to the car crash that is 90 Day Fiance
Here’s me thinking me bulk buying 2 of those bottles of mustard that expire in 2025 from Costco is excessive 😂
Absolutely loved watching along with you both but I have to say, that top is gorgeous! Could I get the link please? 🖤
Seconding all of this.
One jar of Costco mustard, lasted my family for 4 years.
im in the us and i figured the tax thing was to make people buy more because it looks less expensive and because tax rates for sales tax are different in every state so maybe they just don't want to deal with the effort idk
Starting off the new year with you two and more gout and shaming!
😂😂🖤
Ok so you two are pretty much single handedly carrying me through my bachelor thesis and my first ever breakup and I will always be grateful for having a reason to laugh because of you. I love love love your content and wish both of you the absolute best 💕
Break ups are hard, time is a great healer. Be kind to yourself .
Live with purpose and compassion. Good luck with everything .
Couponing always seems like so much effort, my partner just took ONE coupon for a discount on a saucepan and then had to go to three different locations to the same chain of shop just to find the right shop with the right saucepan that matched the coupon that he withdrew in the first shop and they all quoted different prices in each shop...
Edit: Also what? Daddy lost his job but don't worry kids we've got 60 bottles of mustard??
I've had the misfortune of being homeless at one point in my life, and even I wouldn't want that much mustard...it seems so wasteful!!
Yeah, the stores decide whether they'll participate in a coupon or deal offered by the franchise company. It's frustrating when you just wanted to buy the one thing.
The people on this show are shopping addicts. It's a high to see the total price go up and then down.
Also they think they're in control of their money, in the same way Anorexics and Bulimics think they're in control of their weight.
and regarding the extra drama ; in the states as long as it's a different bill, even if they're together it's fine., and people do really coupon like that; and food can be frozen so that it doesn't go bad, also share it with extended family