to think if I lived in America I would be....

[NotYoMomma]

An extreme couponer?

I'm watching extreme compounding and just saw a woman get $1100 worth of shopping for her and her 7 children...

For $33!!!!

I'm like this -->

Where are all the coupons in the UK?

I would love it!
Making lists, having that one area in life where I could be proper obsessed with with no shame lol

AIBU?

[Letitsnow9]

I would love to be able to do it too. It's just greed with some of them but I did find one lady very touching. She used to have no money and her church brought her food, now she's an extremes couponer, she built lots of shelves in her garage (or basement) and had her own mini shop where anyone in need could come and choose what they would like/were in need of.

I did have my own extreme coupon moment years back, John Lewis had a £5 voucher, no minimum spend and free postage. I went a bit crazy! I did order 2 things for myself (I read online that someone brought themselves 50 lots of £5 items :o!), I sent something to lots of very poorly children (jellycat rabbits, cookie kits, hanging mobiles), biscuits to all their parents and also sent something to lots of adults I know who are all ill. I didn't put a name on it and it was so lovely seeing the reaction of everyone getting a random gift out of the blue!

In the uk you see sometimes people who brought 200 chocolate oranges for £2 or 50 toblerones for 50p. I've not known anyone who got those offers to give them away. I would of loved it, I would scoff some but donate them to a foodbank as a treat or to the local domestic violence charity to give to people who need a treat. I can't see why anyone needs that much chocolate

[Bogeyface]

I have only heard it a Kew (the garden) pohhn in the US.

[Saski]

Some Americans say "kyoo-pon".

[Mother2many]

I say, coo-pon too. Yes, after a grocery sale, and your receipt says what you have saved, I get excited! Esp. the buy one, get one free on MEAT! :P

[Bogeyface]

coo pun

But I am a midlander, not the most elegant accent ever :o

Actually I say voucher too!

[juneybean]

I pronounce it voucher

[Shinyshoes1]

I say kewpon and I'm born and live in the uk

[Peevish]

I think it also comes down to Americans typically having larger living spaces with more storage. Where they can store bales of Tabasco and toothpaste.

[Tee2072]

Not much difference then.

[expatinscotland]

It's a coo-pon

[Tee2072]

BTW - how else do you pronounce coupon?

[wonkylegs]

My dads a prolific coupon user in the UK and combined with shopping in the evenings when they reduce everything. He bought himself a weeks worth of food in waitrose for 3p once. The guy on the till rang it through twice as he didn't believe it was true. Dad was gutted he'd forgotten a bag though and had to pay 10p for two (Wales)

[CheerfulYank]

I know someone who gets all kinds of free deodorants, mouthwash, razors etc, etc, and then at the end of the year has a huge garage sale and sells it all for a dollar or so each. She makes at least a few thousand.

[Tailtwister]

It's amazing to watch, but I agree they never really seem to buy much you could actually feed a family on. I love the bit where they scan all the coupons in at the end and they see the price come down. Don't they actually get some money back sometimes too?

[Saski]

I have an image of my mother clipping coupons seared into my brain forever, it was the rage in the 70's/80's in the US.

I had no idea that it was still a thing. Aren't most coupons in the US digital now? Maybe this is a sign that I'm actually young, I can't imagine clipping a piece of paper and presenting to a cashier for a price reduction.

[Tee2072]

Hey guess what? That's how Anerucans say coupon.

[missuswife]

I like the programme but yeah, I live in the States and never see coupons for anything I want. Deals on fresh stuff (like meat or fruit marked down to so much per pound) but mainly I go to Costco for things like nappies or other stuff I use a lot of. I never buy any packages food so the coupons are no good for me. If meat is on sale I'll stock up and freeze it though.

[Mother2many]

Well, there are extreme coupon people...not everyone is a "hoarder".. I would also buy wisely, but not over do it!!

Here in Canada, we can't coupon like the US does either... can't stack up and get things for free here! (unless you save your grocery points...lol)

[Ihaveavoo]

Reminds me of those who do shit loads of competitions a day and win loads of crap stuff.

[KatyTheCleaningLady]

When I was in America, coupons were a waste of time. Always for crap I didn't need.

[Primrose123]

I would love to try it too, but not to that extent. Why not get 10 free tubes of toothpaste, that would keep the family going for a while, wouldn't it? I don't know why they have to buy so many in one go - it seems very greedy.

I wonder if it's an OCD type thing. All the couponers I have seen keep their stock in perfect stacks. Do they ever use the stuff they get? They seem to take a lot of pleasure in saying, 'Look at all my stuff' and some even take photos! It seems to be an obsession with some of them.

I also wonder if it's that fear of having nothing. My grandmother, after living through two wars, and being widowed, always kept a small amount of money in the bank, and always had tins and frozen food, 'just in case'. Perhaps it's a sort of safety net for them.

I also wish they would say coupon properly. It makes me shudder every time they say 'kewpon'!

[NotYoMomma]

I would donate! You could help loads of people if it was really like on the tv!

[youmeatsix]

i think i would spend all day trying to get even just one person to pronounce coupon properly

[Booyhoo]

youmeatsix

i saw that episode. yes she was buying a new bigger shed to house all this stuff, some of which (sanitary products) she would never use! why? jsut donate it to a womens' shelter or somewhere.

[Booyhoo]

it's all junk food or toothpaste etc.

and how much extra space would you need to hoard all the stuff you would never use? or would you donate it?