Don't understand their reasoning.

Couldn't agree more. I just watched some woman buy 140 packets of noodles, 150 sports drinks, and a few dozen rolls of toilet paper. Her reasoning was that she needed to save at least $370 to pay a medical bill that was past due. Her total before coupons came to over $600 and she ended up paying just under $100. So in her mind, she "saved" over $500, but in reality, she spent more than half of that $100 on food she didn't even need. I'm glad they're not in charge of my finances if that's their idea of saving money. Coupons for toilet paper, dishsoap, or laundry soap are great because those are things we all use, but most of the food coupons are for processed crap.




You don't choose the soy sauce, the soy sauce chooses you.

I've seen a couple episodes where they use it towards charities which is pretty impressive to me, at least the concept of donating time if you can't afford large scale donations. But overall i tend to agree, and most of the coupons are for processed crap. Or the people who, say, buy hundreds of dollars of cat food at a SUPER LOW PRICE but...don't have a cat. Imo that truly renders it all pointless!

When you're 17 a cow can seem dangerous and forbidden...am I alone here?

I would love to see just one episode of someone who does Extreme Couponing, but that DOESN'T have a huge stock pile of crap they'll never use.

"What is necessary is never unwise." -- Sarek.

My mom used to cut coupons she didn't use and have us look for the items in the store and leave them on top of them. A customer saw me doing it and asked for the coupons b/c she would use them. She didn't even know what they were for but we did see her getting those items. My mom was a little mad at me b/c she did that so that we keep ourselves busy and out of trouble while she shopped.

Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.