I do not believe toilet paper or many of those items will last 5, 10, or 40 years in the garage. Most extreme couponers pay for their coupons (at least the clipping service), pay for a newspaper, pay for gas, and their time to shop. I do not think having 40 years worth of toilet paper is being a good steward of your time or your money. There are 150 pounds of grain and oats in my laundry room, because it is cheaper to buy in bulk and will last us several months.
EXTREME COUPONING STOCKPILE HOW TO
I am a big believer in stockpiling, I even published an article on how to stockpile effectively. Take what you need, leave the rest for someone else. I think there is a lot to be learned from these extreme couponers. He did buy 1,000 boxes of cereal, which he donated to a local food bank, which seemed to be a bright spot in this crazy show. On his shopping trip he spent around $200 for $5,000 worth of stuff. He had over 1500 sticks of deodorant and enough body wash to clean every elephant in the world. While she did buy a lot of stuff for one person, I think she said she donated some, and she only bought what she was going to use, at least that is what she said. I liked the fact that she took friends to the store to show them how to save money. She was retired and appeared to be single so it didn’t seem like there were any relationship issues caused by her extreme couponing. Seriously? He is an adult, and while it is important to rotate the stockpile she had at least 40 boxes of cereal, if he wants another kind he should be able to eat it. One thing that slightly irritated me about couponer #2 was that she told her husband which cereal he could eat based on expiration dates in her stockpile. If you were truly stockpiling for 3 months you wouldn’t need 40 boxes. I have a family of 9 and we would be eating a lot of pasta if 40 boxes only needed to last 3 months. Everything goes on sale about every three months, so purchase a three month supply when you can get it at a discount or free. On her shopping trip she purchased 40 boxes of pasta. I found this to be interesting because in the same segment she talked about the cycle of sales. Her stockpile that takes up her entire garage for a family of four. She started couponing when her husband lost his job and it kind of took off from there. This couponer seemed slightly more reasonable. I think you can hoard food, just like anything else. If someone had three rooms dedicated to knick knacks, felt joy when they found them for free, spent 70 hours a week organizing and dusting them, and their collection was causing stress in their marriage people would call them a hoarder. I think because people are saving money and getting things they need (I use that term loosely) they feel like this obsessive behavior is okay. Her husband was visibly upset about the growing stockpile and the trip to the store. While the food might not be costing her much, her extreme couponing habit will probably cost her a marriage. Her extreme couponing is destroying her marriage. Just because you can get 150 candy bars for free, doesn’t mean you should. This woman saved over $1000 buying things that she will not live long enough to use. Needs 2 cars to transport groceries home.It takes another hour to finish the order. Spends 2 hours checking out, then the register crashes.Spends 3 hours shopping, fills 9 carts.Along with numerous other items brings home 150 bars of candy for free.Spends about $70 a week purchasing coupons from an online clipping service.Her stockpile currently occupies 2 rooms, and is quickly taking over a 3rd room.She claims using coupons brings feelings of absolute joy.She has a wall of toilet paper which equals 3,000 rolls.(Seriously, I could not make this stuff up!) Her stockpile carries its own insurance policy.Admittedly sacrifices time with husband and cancels plans in order to shop.I understand that television makes its money by sensationalizing stories, but even if you leave out all the dumpster diving and 1,000’s of sticks of deodorant Extreme Couponing bothered me. Each couponer had stockpiles that took up entire rooms, garages, or more, and spent several hours a day finding, cutting, sorting and matching coupons. The show profiled four extreme couponers and their quest to spend almost nothing at the grocery store. I watch very little television, but this show caught my attention when my friend Andrea linked to it on Facebook. I just finshed watching Extreme Couponing on TLC.
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