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?

[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)

[Tee2072]

BTW - how else do you pronounce coupon?

[expatinscotland]

It's a coo-pon

[Tee2072]

Not much difference then.

[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.

[Shinyshoes1]

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

[juneybean]

I pronounce it voucher

[Bogeyface]

coo pun

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

Actually I say voucher too!

[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

[Saski]

Some Americans say "kyoo-pon".

[Bogeyface]

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

[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