Extreme Couponing: Paying Nothing and Crashing Economy
TLC’s hit show, Extreme Couponing, profiles America’s upper middle-class women who use loopholes in couponing and sales to buy hundreds of dollars of groceries with the end cash payment, out of pocket, to be under $10.00.
As Extreme Couponing catches on, America needs to beware of local economy crashes.
Airs Wednesdays @ 9/8c
Splitting transactions to scam.
The purpose behind coupons is for the customer to try a product. A manufacturer circulates coupons to raise awareness about a product or product line. If the consumer can get a cheaper deoderant, she may try the one she has a coupon for, right?
Extreme Couponing will cause manufacturers to stop printing coupons as a marketing strategy and supermarkets to stop frequency card savings — eventually debilitating all of our pocket books. Most of us cannot nearly afford our groceries and household items without the frequency card and occasional coupon savings.
The Extreme Couponers are theives and taking advantage of getting items for free! FREE only crashes economies. NOTHING is free. Frankly, these women should seek counseling for their obvious lack of empathy to their neighbors who will suffer because of their compulsive couponing. The women are all obviously savings-junkies. These women are hording food. I really, really, really hope that some of these women are giving food away to food pantries but, as the footage on Extreme Couponing shows, these women stockpile the groceries and household items for themselves.
I will be writing more in depth on this subject in the near future but until then, please BEFORE YOU START EXTREME COUPONING, think hard about your potential involvement in a national economic crash. NOTHING IS FREE and I do not respect people who seek out “FREE”. I was always taught to work hard for what I have and that my efforts will show in my relationships and my material things.
Extreme Couponing is a mental illness, a thieving practice and a selfish way of life that WILL effect the rest of us if this fad catches on.
See the nonsense in action: http://tlc.howstuffworks.com/tv/extreme-couponing
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BigBrother1984 | May 20, 2011 | Reply
If there was a dislike button, I would hit it for this rude, sexist and arrogant article. Thank you for your opinion however.
32 BarClay | May 21, 2011 | Reply
Big Brother, thank you for your backhanded compliment. I am a woman, I like by BOGO coupons and the word “arrogant” implies that I am not educated, which is exponentially untrue. I know that I did not disclose these facts, but comments should be more constructive than destructive….and are you saluting a communist flag in your photo?, looks like it from the thumbnail. touche =)
Jaz | Jun 5, 2011 | Reply
Wow, though I agree it isn’t a good thing for the economy, way to stereotype it as all women! Considering I just sat down to watch an episode (and then hunted around online to see what people had to say about it) the main couponer was, shock and amazement, A MAN!
This was a very poorly written article, and clearly you need to get therapy for your obvious resentment of women.
Chris | Jun 23, 2011 | Reply
If you don’t like FREE… you’re either overpaid and self righteous.. or just a sucker! This article is garbage too by the way.. maybe the writer should do one on dumpster diving… since this is where you’ll be most likely to find most of their work..
AndrewWilkow | Jul 17, 2011 | Reply
I agree 100% with this article, and I must say that anyone who doesn’t agree with it is probably one of the followers who drank the kook-aid and voted for Obama.
The bottom line is companies offer coupons, discounts, and freebies as a form of advertisement. When you take advantage of tgat system thise companies see less bang for their advertising buck. In the end less return for advertising througj coupons eventually leads to less coupons, possibly higher prices and at the very least there aren’t as many people benefitting from the discounts because of these thieves. They are almost as bad as union members, but that is another argument altogether.
In thevend though, the companies putting out these coupons and the stores should make it harder or impossible for this to happen anymore.
AndrewWilkow | Jul 17, 2011 | Reply
Holy crap, really! Are you one of the “anti-profiling” people that end up getting grandma shook down at an airport?
Truth is that the VAST majority of couponers are women, so it is correct to generalize in such a way.
I bet you are one of the people that gets mad when someone uses “man” to refence everyone, even though it is the correct word and comes from mankind, which is genderless.
D.A.Sullivan | Oct 27, 2011 | Reply
I see the point made by the author regarding the economy and that companies may stop offering coupons all together. I have a different take on the issue of extreme couponing which you might be interested in reading at
http://purpleslinky.com/humor/are-extreme-couponers-hoarders/