Some of you may be aware that there is a new reality show starting Wednesday night on TLC called Extreme Couponing. Some of the clips have been of a shopper buying 1100 boxes of cereal in one trip. Or of someone stockpiling enough toilet paper to last them 40 years. Or how about buying extra insurance for your stockpile? Huh?!?
So, I’m going to ask you, when is enough enough? Do we really need that much toilet paper or cereal?
I know some of you, and me included, buy things that make us money even if we do not use them or need them. Those items we promptly put into our food bank pile. But, why do we need to buy enough to last us a lifetime? What is the point, and why do we need to go that far?
There are different levels of couponers. There are those that clip from the Sunday paper and march in with their 2 or 3 coupons and use them to buy products at full price. There are those that have a coupon envelope and use about 10 coupons a week without paying attention to the sales. There are those, me included, that buy about 4 – 6 newspapers a week and match their coupons with the sales to get the best price. And, then there are those that get over 500 coupons a week, spend upwards of 20 hours a week planning their deals and have a stockpile that would last them a year or two. I’m going to use personal experience to help shed some light as to why, I think, we don’t need to be that extreme.
Thanks LivingRichwithCoupons
PS: I am more of a 4-6 newspaper person - I also buy my coupons online at TheCouponClippers.com so that I can take advantage of sales and get things cheap! I think that I've saved over the past year about $2,000. I didn't really keep good records last year, so I'm going to try to do better this year.
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