On Apr 7, 8:26*am, "Nancy Young" > wrote:
> Julie Bove wrote:
> > I think saving money is great. *And I think it is necessary to keep a
> > stock of some non-perishable items. *Particularly in the winter if
> > you are likely to be snowed in. *Or if you live in an area where
> > roads might be flooded and you can't get out.
>
> > What is wrong with these people?
>
> It's pretty clear that some of the people have a form of OCD similar
> to hoarding. *Sometimes it seems to be triggered by having to do
> without at some point. *On the first special there was one woman
> who would cancel any and all plans if she came across some deal.
> She'd have to go shopping right then, the heck with that dinner with
> friends. *Not good. * *
>
> I like to have extra so that I don't have to watch sales all the time,
> like I'll find a good deal on shampoo and I'll get 4 and I'm done
> worrying about that for months. *If it's often on sale for $2, it bugs
> me to pay the "regular" price of $4.50 if I let it get to that point.
>
> I like matching a coupon to a sale as much as the next person, but
> it's a full time hobby for these people. *I didn't understand the one
> woman who thought she'd get $10 off every $50 she'd spend, I've
> never known a store deal like that to be more than a one $10 off.
> If she's such a couponer, how'd she miss that detail? *
>
> I never get how they can take so much off their bill, either. *Yes,
> double coupons are nice but they rarely wind up with getting a
> product for free for me. * *
>
> I can just see these people's heirs backing up a dumpster to get
> rid of stuff they stockpiled 25 years ago.
>
> nancy

I don't get where they find all the coupons. Given I live in a city
with fewer than 100,000 people, but I could buy all the different
newspapers available on a weekend, clip every coupon in every magazine
I read, and never have the mountains and mountains of coupons these
people have (taking them 4 hours a day to sort and plan shopping)....
and I certainly don't ever get coupons that make the product end up
being free because most of those are "buy one, get one free."

N.