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I watched that Extreme couponing a few weeks ago, and went and bout half a dozen Sunday papers. My wife at the start was "Well if we don't need more tooth paste why get more?" I told her if it was free after coupon get it... Well I went into the laundry room and there are about a dozen tubes and 2 dozen tooth brushes and other stuff like that. A bunch of packs of gum for free, cereal out our ears for about 50 cents a box.

Anyone else into that.?

As a matter of fact I got her a binder with baseball card sleeves to help her get organized. She was going through her coupons and said she wished she realized she had a certain coupon. LOL
 
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Yeah it is. I am hooked on Discovery, Learning, Animal Planet and those shows. I was doing a couple things around the house and it was on.

The problem is the grocery stores around here, do not pay overage on coupons. Farm Fresh doubles 99 cents and below and on Wednesday double up to a buck. If you have something that is $1.89 and have a double buck coupon you should get 11 cents credit, but you don't.
 
the stores are catching on and are putting a stop to the extreme couponers. they get their money back form the product company still, but they don't want to share in the rewards
 
One of my friends wife does the 'coupon' thing. They save a couple hundred a month on groceries.
 
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I went shopping a few weeks ago at Target. At checkout I was behind a guy that was doing the extreme couponing. The stuff he was getting was kind of odd and at a couple of points he reminded the cashier that xxx item also got a $5 gift card or something along those lines. Cashier totalled him out at just over $400. Then came the coupons that he handed to her one at a time. His total out of pocket was $85.59 and he pocketed $125 in $5 gift cards. I thought he was going to pay with those but I think he took a look at the line that developed behind him and felt bad. If he had though he would have made around $40 and left with $400 of goods. It was pretty impressive. 2 days later local news reported that Target was putting limits on coupons.
 
Yep...my wife is more extreme than most of the people on that show. She was actually asked to do the show but refuses to let a TV show make her look crazy and they don't pay you to do the show either. You have 2 dozen tooth brushes, I had 1000's. Same for the tooth paste, razors, shampoo, deoderants, it's pretty wild. She just had her garage sale last month, so the supply is way back down again right now. Everyone in 3 counties knows about this garage sale. They line up down the street at 4am to get into our garage sale and she doesn't even open the door until 8. I kid you not!
 
Here, I found these pics from a couple years ago I took while working on setting up all her free stuff. I wanna call it junk, but she made enough money from just this sale to take us all to Hawaii for a week, so I keep my mouth shut and help her out.:wink:

Coupons are only a very small part of the whole game too. It is a game. You combine coupons with sales and rebates and store credits and points programs and state law penalties and you can do this for a living.
 

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I'm guessing these reality shows that pop up eventually (or quickly!) ruin the activity. Bet storage locker auctions are a nightmare now for people who used to do it for a living. Tons of new extreme couponers = stores not putting up with it any more. Soon it will be cool to be a hoarder LOL!
 
I'm a pretty fanatical coupon person and have a nice stockpile of several things. it's been years since I paid money for toothpaste, antiperspirant, body wash or soap. Those are just a few things that I refuse to "pay" for. Someone asked me once why I did it, they said can't you afford to buy this stuff? And it's true, I do make a decent salary and don't have to do this, but it is kind of a game, I told them, it's like a little high for me to know I got something for free, and that's a better way to get a high than many other things. Plus, if I save on household items, then I figure I have more money to spend on extra things, like pen blanks or pen kits.

And BTW, to the OP, about overage, Walmart put out a new coupon policy not too long ago that says they DO have to give you the overage, either as cash or credit towards what you're buying. The policy is at this link:

http://walmartstores.com/7655.aspx

And towards the bottom it says:
•If coupon value exceeds the price of the item, the excess may be given to the customer as cash or applied toward the basket purchase.

Personally, I won't ever ask them for cash, I just make sure I buy other stuff, because I think if too many people asked for cash, they would likely change the policy. I have a printout of the policy in my coupon file and will pull it out and show it to them. It took some arguing not too long ago when there was a $3 off Gain products and so I bought the dryer sheets that were $1.97 at Walmart and they tried to tell me they'd only take off the $1.97 but when I made them read the coupon policy, then they took off the $3.
 
When I saw this topic, I knew Jeff would show up here. I would LOVE to know some of her tips. My wife is slowly getting better at this stuff, but nowhere near that good.

I also wonder if this works better in some states than others?
 
Some states are different than others, some parts of states too. In Michigan, Meijers doubles to 50 cents, in Indiana Meijers doubles to a dollar. Maybe butter is on sale in Michigan but there's no coupons, but there is the coupons in Arizona...so you go to a coupon site, or ebay and do a search. Here we have price tag laws too, you have to price the items or the shelf. If you scan the item and the item comes out for more than the price said it was, you get a penalty of 10% the difference up to $5. That's per item of course too, so you can make out like a bandit if you pay attention and use those in store scanners. Most of my wifes couponing happens at CVS, Rite aid, and Walgreens...all pharmacies but have more than just medicine there. They have point cards...she has some kinda system there with the coupons and the point cards where she is able to not just get things free, but accumulate cash on the rewards cards too.
 
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