Nancy2 wrote:
> 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."

One lady said she goes dumpster diving. Another said the newspapers give
her all the extra coupons. But still... They'd be getting multiples of the
same things.

I quit taking the paper because the few coupons that were in there were
mostly of no use to me.