Extreme Couponers

[Darkkin]

Anyone else a little overwhelmed or weirded out by extreme couponers, (blackhole series on Discovery +).

Just the sheer amount of prep work, the physical shopping, the loading, the unload, the time in line arguing about every penny for 300 travel size tubes of toothpaste or 46 cans of pinto beans, the reloading, transfer.

Then you're driving to the next stop on the list, repeat the process, until the vehicle is fuller than the car on freshmen move in day at college. Finally comes the unloading, the hauling, and putting away the haul and rearranging all the existing stockpile. And then you have to live with all of this stuff in your space until you either use it or it expires.

There are people who swear by it, but personally, I think it looks like form of hoarding. The time, energy, space, and effort expended to maintain these stockpiles is mind boggling.

I think I'm doing okay when I have an extra package of toilet paper or cat food because I know it will be used within a reasonable amount of time. I guess I'm looking at it as a source of a meltdown trigger.

If you are not regimented to the point of military precision you'll have a doom pile in a matter of days.

What are your thoughts and or experiences?

 

[Forest Cat]

I watched a little of a show like that, it was unusual. We have coupons in Norway but nothing like on that show, I have never seen anything like it. I saw a young girl buy a huge pile of goods, it was worth over 200 dollars and when they had dealt with all the coupons she paid 6 dollars! I don't know how that is possible.

 

[Hazel_1914]

I don't have a TV, and I buy mostly secondhand/vintage/antique stuff. So that's two problems I don't have.

If I want something nice, I'll go buy it; if I want a deal I will haggle for it.

 

[Gerald Wilgus]

Some people are obsessed that way. I thought that I was finally making money when I realized that I could afford anything in the supermarket.

 

[Luca]

I rarely, if ever, use coupons.

 

[Tom]

You can take almost anything to extremes. I think some of it is a mind looping the same subroutine over and over. Probably started out having some form of reward. But now they are stuck. Some eventually realize they have lost it and break free. Some never do.

 

[Darkkin]

It is a reward chemical high and is a specific type of OCD and hoarding. It is an addiction just like any other and the amount of time these people spend preparing for this stuff is nearly a much, and in some cases more work than a full time job.

It honestly makes my cleaning routines down right normal and unobtrusive. The impact these people have on retail employees and their own families is huge.

 

[Streetwise]

Anyone else a little overwhelmed or weirded out by extreme couponers, (blackhole series on Discovery +).

Just the sheer amount of prep work, the physical shopping, the loading, the unload, the time in line arguing about every penny for 300 travel size tubes of toothpaste or 46 cans of pinto beans, the reloading, transfer.

Then you're driving to the next stop on the list, repeat the process, until the vehicle is fuller than the car on freshmen move in day at college. Finally comes the unloading, the hauling, and putting away the haul and rearranging all the existing stockpile. And then you have to live with all of this stuff in your space until you either use it or it expires.

There are people who swear by it, but personally, I think it looks like form of hoarding. The time, energy, space, and effort expended to maintain these stockpiles is mind boggling.

I think I'm doing okay when I have an extra package of toilet paper or cat food because I know it will be used within a reasonable amount of time. I guess I'm looking at it as a source of a meltdown trigger.

If you are not regimented to the point of military precision you'll have a doom pile in a matter of days.

What are your thoughts and or experiences?

Its no weirder than any addiction,the autistic me likes the idea of getting something back from billionaires