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Insane Couponing

this-one-time-at-bandcamp — Sat, 21 Feb 2015 18:46:32 GMT

While I was washing dishes this morning, I caught a show on the Discovery Channel........."Extreme Couponing".......which should have its name changed to "Insane Couponing".

In one segment, a woman spends over 10 hours a day rounding up coupons............even at minimum wage, that's $100+ a day she has to save to just break even. Her house is filled with bottles of dish soap..........how much dish soap does one use in a year?

Another segment showed this teenage girl who cut a deal with her parents, where every penny she saves by couponing is put towards a down-payment on a car. Sounds like a plan, until she drags her dad into the Piggly Wiggly, and fills a shopping cart with bottles of barbecue sauce.......then doesn't buy anything to put the BBQ sauce on. She spends over $650 on **bleep**, and saves $610 for her car.........but her folks will be eating Rice Krispies or macaroni and cheese meals, slathered with Kraft BBQ sauce for years.

If she'd had any sense at all, she would have found a car she liked, and arranged a deal with the salesman........TV ads constantly claim "cash back" or "rebates" on cars.........she would only have to find a $5000 rebate to fulfill her end of the bargain.

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wilk1149 — Sat, 21 Feb 2015 20:12:05 GMT

Doesn't mean much here as we don't have coupons.

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the_hawk* — Sat, 21 Feb 2015 20:46:46 GMT

It think it says a lot about the mental health system in America or the lack of one.

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myoclon1cjerk — Sat, 21 Feb 2015 21:36:04 GMT

Sounds like TV over there is of the same high quality we have here.Tattoo shows,extreme fishing (**bleep**?) shows about hoarders.Not to mention the bores and loudmouths selling way overpriced junk jewellry,tacky 'fashion' and dodgy home appliances.Makes you really question the intelligence of the population in general.

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grandmoon — Sat, 21 Feb 2015 21:36:33 GMT

I have seen a few of the episodes of that program.

IMO it should be called extreme greed.

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lal-au0 — Sat, 21 Feb 2015 22:43:28 GMT

@myoclon1cjerk wrote:
Sounds like TV over there is of the same high quality we have here.Tattoo shows,extreme fishing (**bleep**?) shows about hoarders.Not to mention the bores and loudmouths selling way overpriced junk jewellry,tacky 'fashion' and dodgy home appliances.Makes you really question the intelligence of the population in general.

they also voted for tony........just saying

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gkam2 — Sat, 21 Feb 2015 23:15:03 GMT

@lal-au0 wrote:
@myoclon1cjerk wrote:
Sounds like TV over there is of the same high quality we have here.Tattoo shows,extreme fishing (**bleep**?) shows about hoarders.Not to mention the bores and loudmouths selling way overpriced junk jewellry,tacky 'fashion' and dodgy home appliances.Makes you really question the intelligence of the population in general.
they also voted for tony........just saying

and prior to that Rudd.....just saying.

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lurker172602 — Sun, 22 Feb 2015 00:32:33 GMT

I keep reading the title of this thread as Insane Coupling and my mind goes

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serendipityricho — Sun, 22 Feb 2015 01:25:29 GMT

Lurker-great minds think alike --was waiting for the pics .lol...........................Richo.

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wilk1149 — Sun, 22 Feb 2015 01:34:00 GMT

Or dyslexics read the same

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polksaladallie — Sun, 22 Feb 2015 04:15:55 GMT

@wilk1149 wrote:
Doesn't mean much here as we don't have coupons.

Yeah, we do. Look on the back of your supermarket docket, or at the bottom, where you get free grog.

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watta*drama*queen — Sun, 22 Feb 2015 04:28:42 GMT

@myoclon1cjerk wrote:
Sounds like TV over there is of the same high quality we have here.Tattoo shows,extreme fishing (**bleep**?) shows about hoarders.Not to mention the bores and loudmouths selling way overpriced junk jewellry,tacky 'fashion' and dodgy home appliances.Makes you really question the intelligence of the population in general.

Happens here too hiccup (hiccough)

Must be a similar demographic

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gleee58 — Sun, 22 Feb 2015 05:01:15 GMT

@polksaladallie wrote:
@wilk1149 wrote:
Doesn't mean much here as we don't have coupons.
Yeah, we do. Look on the back of your supermarket docket, or at the bottom, where you get free grog.

It sounds similar to frequent shopper rewards programs and a lot like the Coke rewards set up where you enter a code to get points for each bottle of coke you buy then when you have enough you can buy something with the points.

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far*canal* — Sun, 22 Feb 2015 05:03:27 GMT

The show is **bleep**. And it's 'extreme' because not many people do it. Some of them spend months saving coupons up for that one day. They'll even scour other people's garbage bins looking for coupons.

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imastawka — Sun, 22 Feb 2015 05:13:53 GMT

OMG!!!!! I love that ID

Don't see it working with an American accent though

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far*canal* — Sun, 22 Feb 2015 05:18:42 GMT

No probably not with an American accent. Good thing I'm an Aussie who just lives in the US

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gleee58 — Sun, 22 Feb 2015 05:21:47 GMT

@gleee58 wrote:
@polksaladallie wrote:
@wilk1149 wrote:
Doesn't mean much here as we don't have coupons.
Yeah, we do. Look on the back of your supermarket docket, or at the bottom, where you get free grog.
It sounds similar to frequent shopper rewards programs and a lot like the Coke rewards set up where you enter a code to get points for each bottle of coke you buy then when you have enough you can buy something with the points.

Nah, scrap that. I just watched some on youtube and it's nothing like what I've seen here.

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imastawka — Sun, 22 Feb 2015 05:22:49 GMT

@far*canal* wrote:
No probably not with an American accent. Good thing I'm an Aussie who just lives in the US

Yep. Need an Aussie accent for that one.