What Aunt Betty taught us all was the value of saving a dollar or two—just by shopping the sales and never purchasing anything without a coupon or promo code in hand. Couponing is the act of searching for deals and steals on goods and services by cutting out ads from newspapers and catalogs , searching for online promo codes, and sometimes even using extreme measures like using expired coupons to save at checkout.
Talk about satisfaction! How many times can you use this coupon in the same transaction? Asking for a friend. For some people, couponing is a way of life. Coupons are a great way to save money on things you were already going to purchase.
Retailers are actually smarter and sneakier than you might think. These days, there are many different options when it comes to saving money. But most come in the form of paper ads or digital codes. Paper: Most stores are still keeping the printing industry alive and well. Digital Coupons: The use of digital coupons goes hand in hand with online shopping.
Grateful and considerate couponers use their coupons to get the best discounts without affecting other shoppers, while extreme couponers do what they can to stretch their money, regardless of how it affects others. This might be a controversial opinion, but I appreciate it when couponers show a little restraint in the grocery store by shopping during slower hours, or by leaving product on the shelves despite the ability to buy it all due to a deep discount.
To be a real extreme couponer, you need to have a ton of time, a large investment, and very thick skin. Skip to content Advertiser Disclosure Advertiser Disclosure: The credit card and banking offers that appear on this site are from credit card companies and banks from which MoneyCrashers. This compensation may impact how and where products appear on this site, including, for example, the order in which they appear on category pages. Advertiser partners include American Express, Chase, U. Bank, and Barclaycard, among others.
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Many grocery stores would not allow one person checking out to tie up employees and a register for five hours. You might get away with it once, but my bet is that on your next trip to the store, there would be a new policy preventing it from happening again.
With that said, you can still save a tremendous amount of money by using coupons for products that you and your family will use. You can even save enough to donate products to charity.
Let's take a look at what is possible for most of us when it comes to saving with coupons and take some of the "spin" out from the program to see how it can benefit us. After the big fallout on the authenticity of the program, TLC continued the program for five seasons, although viewer interest dropped off. The last episode appeared during the Thanksgiving season on TLC's Discovery Family network with a new title, Greatest Givers: Extreme Couponing, which focused on the good deeds done by some of the previously profiled couponers.
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