Taking a Look at Extreme Couponing

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The average American spends $151 a week on groceries; adding up to $604 a month which is taken out of the hard earned pay check of the household. It is not a mystery why shoppers would want to use coupons to attempt to bring down this cost. Efficient shoppers understand the value of spending the time to meticulously plan each trip to the grocery store to fit in as many coupons as possible. Joanie Demer quit her job in order to spend her time maximizing the benefits from couponing. When couponing, the best way to save is doubling up the coupons to utilize the voucher to its fullest extent; extreme couponers will hoard several copies of a newspaper or magazine in order to stock up on the coupons so they can double up and have enough for the overstock they need to hold over until the next sale on that product. Jamie VanSicker gathered 185 copies of the Sunday paper in order to save big on the deals at her local grocery store, sadly to find out the paper didn’t have any coupons to clip. Religiously sticking to couponing may not be the healthiest choice, there are not many coupons are available for meat or produce, but the saving are worth the products given up. Couponing can create a few problems but overall takes the stress off the women when they know they have saved usually at least $15 off their total bill.
Extreme shoppers get a thrill out of buying more than they would be able to otherwise because of the savings they obtain from their bargains. Lyz Lenz wanted to test using coupons vs. using a bargain store. She created a shopping list of groceries needed for the week. At the bargain store she spent $103.16 sticking strictly to her list and only buying what the family needed for the week. At the local store using coupons she s...

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...reception. I had no clue how they were going to pull the entire thing off without the reception looking like it had been put together last minute at the dollar store. The idea seemed impossible to me but they seemed to have a blast working through their budget trying to accomplish their goal. Being frugal was a part of Rudy’s life style, saying it gave her a “high.” They pulled an amazing deal of finding bottles of BBQ sauce for free with doubling up the coupons they had on the lot, so they decided to buy 200 bottles of the sauce. At first I wondered what they were going to do with all of that, even if they were serving ribs and chicken they would have never needed that much. Then they came up with the idea that the BBQ sauce would be the party favor; it was such unique gift, it captured how frugal they were and how they proved to know how to make their money count.

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