Extreme Couponing - very MSE

CurlyTop

I watched Extreme Couponing on Discovery Real Time last night. OMG - I so, wish we had that option in the UK. A lady spent $1100 on food, toiletries, etc and ended up paying just $9.01. In the States (where else) they have stores whereby you can use coupons that you cut out from papers to trade in for your food. Some stores offer double couponing which means that you can end up in the plus for having bought a product meaning the shop pays you to take it home.

A lot of the people then went on to give the food to food banks, helping people in financial difficulty to keep their head above water. The folk who did keep their bargains in their house, flipping eck, it was like having your own supermarket. I was envious of their stock pile.

Catch it if you can on Mondays. Very eye opening. Just imagine how much fun we could have with the coupons, I'm sure Martin and the gang at MSE Towers would approve.

oldtractor

I wish too.

annie123

OP you will like this thread :
https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/3189872

hth

seabright

I have it on series record! Loved the first series & wish we could do that here too

Cosmopolitan

seabright wrote: »

I have it on series record! Loved the first series & wish we could do that here too

Have this on series record aswell at OHs house, haven't been there yet to watch it though

lostinrates

I'm guessing this is a pay to view channel...sky or something? That's worth a few coupons!

euronorris

CurlyTop wrote: »

Some stores offer double couponing which means that you can end up in the plus for having bought a product meaning the shop pays you to take it home.

Huh? Sorry, how does that work? Do they, for example, have two $1 off coupon's for a product that only costs $1.20, so the store then gives them the 80 cents difference??

Triggles

Having lived in the states for many years, I used to do this all the time. I had a huge file with all my coupons and sorted them before each shop. You had to really watch the sales for it to be most effective, but all the grocery store ads came out in the Wednesday paper, and the coupons were mostly in the Sunday paper. People at my work would bring in coupons they weren't using and we had a big basket that they all went in and you could drop in what you didn't need and take what coupons you did need.

When I was last living there, most stores in our area did double coupons off routinely, although you'd get sales where they'd have triple or even quadruple off.

We used a huge stash of coupons each Thanksgiving and Christmas to buy food with money donated by employees at my workplace to buy as much food for holiday food shelters and families as we could every year. It was unbelievable how much food we ended up with!!!

It was great for keeping the grocery bill down, but you really had to guard against buying something you might not need JUST because you had a coupon. :rotfl:

katkins78

euronorris wrote: »

Huh? Sorry, how does that work? Do they, for example, have two $1 off coupon's for a product that only costs $1.20, so the store then gives them the 80 cents difference??

The store doesn't give them the 80cents, but they can buy meat (for example) and the 80cents will come off that...I think!

Triggles

It depends on the stores. For awhile they were giving cash back if your coupons doubled to more, but once people started really using them, the stores wised up and double (or tripled or quadrupled) up to purchase price only.

Pink.

Hi CurlyTop,

As your thread has now dropped down the Old Style board I've moved it over to the Grocery Shopping board to see if you can get more replies.

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