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April runs her troop of seven kids with military discipline. They shop to feed 200 parishioners and their family for a month for under $100.
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It's just a coupon, no but they're two for three, no coupon it does it go in the bathroom manufacturers distributing coupons each year and more than 75% of shoppers cash in on those savings with at least some regularity, but to Erie Pennsylvania is extreme couponer April sometimes isn't enough.
My name is April and people call me the coupon general, because I basically take care of a small troupe of people.
Boys, tear carts and I tend to be a little militant with her husband Rick.
This stay-at-home mom is raising seven teenagers, and that means couponing isn't just a hobby for April.
It's a way of life.
In less than a year and a half of couponing she's amassed a stockpile of supplies worth more than thirty thousand dollars.
People who have not been in the basement before, usually the first words are.
Oh, my gosh welcome to the bunker people who think that I'm an hoarder, let me just be very clear- orders have dust on their stock packs.
I do not have best of my stockpile.
I am a couponer.
There is a fine line.
Dust is the dividing factor, even though she has 200 bottles of barbecue, sauce, 500 bottles of pasta, sauce and a two-year supply of laundry soap April's, most proud of a different section of the stockpile, 1.so covenant.
She keeps it under lock and key the cookie jar.
My cookie jar is too large to fit on a shelf too large to fit on a counter.
My cookie jar is an entire room, anything that you could possibly want for that sweet midnight, snack, candies and chocolates potato chips.
Lots of pop is found in this room.
Thank you.
So much I love you so much today.
I bet you do April spent 16 hours every week, first targeting sales, in-store circulars and then using regional clipping services to maximize your savings.
I geographically choose where I get my coupons from in California prices, there are higher, so coupons are gonna be higher.
Today, April needs all the savings she can get her hands on, because she's not just shopping for a family of nine every Sunday we feed the people at Hermes, which is about two hundred I'm, not talking donuts and coffee I mean chicken Tetrazzini, French, Toast Casserole defeat her church as well as her family April's made a shopping list that retails over one thousand dollars, but she's heading to the local supermarket, with just one hundred dollars in her budget and six of her teenagers to help with the haul sign up guys, youngest sold it.
Let's go, I definitely have to keep them in line and that's very helpful to be a little militant.
Sir girls move forward.
Boys grab those baskets both of you all right, guys, Lily burns.
My list first on that list is pasta.
The staple of April's weekly church efforts.
This is a dollar 69 a box regularly, but it's on sale for five for five I have a 50 cent coupon, which they're gonna.
Allow me to double up, so this box is gonna, be totally free girls.
How many bucks do you think I'm gonna get under a hundred boxes of pasta, I'm totally free everybody see how the name-brand products are here and the store products right.
Next to you, people read from left to right.
So when you eye moves this way, it encourages you to buy the store products rather than buying the name-brand products, but they don't have coupons on store brand products, but they do on this.
So free always tastes better.
Let's go to the left.
Next Center lists his snack mix.
All right.
This is a great deal.
Snack mix is regularly three dollars attack, but right now it's on sale for five.
Four five and I have a coupon that gives me $1 off of two, so each one of these is 50.
Cent's, okay, I need another basket with an empty cart.
Primed for saving April then reaches a deal on bags of fresh salad.
She spots a pili sticker with even more potential savings, but her excitement fades when April catches a hidden detail in the coupon.
This nine at the very beginning means it does not double a5 means that it does double, but for right now we're gonna keep using the coupons that we have after two and a half hours of shopping and with coupons to match all 400 items April and her troops head to checkout.
If I have six full parts, so you're gonna get your workouts all right.
All right, let's go next one so where's.
My total right now troubles at 3:39 76.
All right left.
Let's see how I go.
Certainiy have a little bit of anxiety.
My stomach is really notches.
I might have to borrow your trashcan.
Your grand total before coupons is 590 for 33, with a retail total of over eleven hundred and forty dollars.
Instant savings have drastically reduced April's total I tells you what the suggested retail is and then what you've saved already I saved $500 already excellent.
Okay, so are you ready? Yes, for the holy grail of coupon, yeah nervous, the nervous anybody got liquor wine? Anything we sell a lot more to do.
Yeah April's total continues to drop until the system hits a snag.
Oh maximum capacity reached I'm gonna first, getting this one more time to see.
If it no could you fall in it yeah, but I have to go to the office and try and get it to work.
Okay, all right, I'll be one minute manager, Jim discovers the combination of products and coupons has surpassed the system's 500 scan limit the changing the capacity isn't so simple.
It has to be one of these restrictions right here.
I'll have the security clearance to get into I was getting nervous because he was gone for quite a while, and let me tell you waiting for a minute is like an hour.
We'll have to do it manually.
What have to hand key and the rest of the coupons are left on the order.
There's a lot of work take a long time after closing out the frozen transaction.
The cashier begins manually entering each coupon.
It feels like I want to pass out two hours gone and over 300 coupons entered by hand.
The cashier reaches the last of april's coupons so that took off fifty five dollars.
Your total coupon savings 550 641 right, which means your final total comes to thirty three dollars and 61 cents.
I feel like Brad Pitt is just walked into the register and said he broke up with Angelina Jolie and he's into big women.
Careful's Hall includes 32 bottles of sports drinks, 60 bags of salad and 200 boxes of assorted pastas.
The retail value totals 1146 dollars, 13 cents using coupons, April paid just 33 dollars and 61 cents and 97% savings that will cover meals at her church fellowship for nearly two months.
Where are we gonna have today for fellowship? Well, today we are having rigatoni and lo blessed, be God.
That's the greatest thing: Mary I need you to start opening up the salad bags speak up.
I need you to grab the meatballs.
For me, couponing is the ability to help others and to do it in a way that I can financially because I wouldn't be able to help others at all.
If I didn't you.
FAQs
How do people get coupons for extreme couponing? ›
Extreme couponers primarily get their coupons through print sources such as store ads, newspapers or in the mail. These savers often shop with a binder filled with plastic sleeves containing hundreds of paper coupons.
What is the show about people using coupons? ›TLC's Extreme Couponing is a show about shoppers who make extensive and focused use of coupons to save money while accumulating large quantities of goods.
What happened to the show extreme couponing? ›It shouldn't surprise anyone that "reality television" is often anything but real. While the television show "Extreme Couponing" was canceled two years ago, it lives on in syndication.
What is the secret to couponing? ›Combining deals to score items for free or for pennies on the dollar. The key to extreme couponing is not to take advantage of just one deal but to take advantage of multiple deals at the same time. By stacking the deals available to you, you can get great prices on items.
Where do people get all the coupons? ›The Sunday newspaper tends to have the most coupons, comprised of both manufacturer and national store coupons. The week day papers usually have deals from local supermarkets.
How do Beginners start couponing? ›- 'Stack' store and manufacturer's coupons. ...
- Find a coupon database. ...
- Read the fine print. ...
- Learn your store's coupon policy. ...
- Make a shopping list. ...
- Create a stockpile. ...
- Use coupons strategically.
(WKRC) — A woman was sentenced to more than 12 years in prison and ordered to pay $31.8 million in restitution after being convicted of running a counterfeit coupon ring in Virginia. Lori Ann Talens, 41, was ordered to pay the money to the retailers and manufacturers who suffered losses in her coupon scheme.
Do extreme couponers really save money? ›And, of course, the biggest personal perk of extreme couponing is the insane amount of money that you can save. People really do save hundreds, even thousands of dollars. One new couponer said she saved over $2,700 in her first 12 weeks of couponing; another slashed her monthly grocery bill in half.
What millionaires use coupons? ›Warren Buffett and Bill Gates
Even the world's richest men have been spotted using coupons.
It's illegal to make copies of coupons. This is considered counterfeiting, and couponers can be prosecuted for doing it. It's better to have a friend or family member print extra coupons, or simply buy extra papers.
What is the downside to Extreme Couponing? ›
It Eats Up Your Time. Although clipping a coupon here and there doesn't take much effort, if you're truly committed to saving, you're going to have to invest your time. Some of the extreme couponers spend more hours each week sifting through newspapers, ad sections, and online sites than they spend working at their job ...
Do people still do extreme coupon? ›Extreme couponing is back. But it's on TikTok this time. Couponing may seem like a grocery-bill-saving chore from a generation ago, but there's a thriving community of TikTok users dedicated to finding the best sales, deals and giveaways by using coupons. Kayla Burk is one such TikToker.
What does glittering mean in couponing? ›Coupon glittering is the umbrella term for using coupons, promo codes, or discounts in a way they weren't meant to be used. It means searching for loopholes or glitches in how coupons are programmed to take unfair advantage of them.
How do stores make money off coupons? ›Coupon companies promote discounts from participating businesses directly to consumers, providing a valuable service for both groups. Businesses profit from working with coupon companies by boosting traffic in their stores and encouraging first-time visits.
How to become a extreme coupon shopper? ›- Decide which coupons are worth redeeming. Its not a good deal if you are buying a product you don't need and won't use, unless the item is shelf-stable. ...
- Check your weekly circulars for items that are on sale. ...
- Look for "buy-one-get-one" deals and use a coupon on that.
It Eats Up Your Time. Although clipping a coupon here and there doesn't take much effort, if you're truly committed to saving, you're going to have to invest your time. Some of the extreme couponers spend more hours each week sifting through newspapers, ad sections, and online sites than they spend working at their job ...
How do people get manufacturer coupons? ›Manufacturer coupons are issued by manufacturers of products for use at any store that accepts manufacturer coupons. They say “manufacturer's coupon” somewhere on the coupon. You'll notice that manufacturer coupons are almost always for a dollar-off amount like “$1 off” or “Save $2 when you buy two.”
Do stores lose money from extreme couponing? ›In general, stores do not lose money from offering or accepting coupons. In fact, they are more likely to profit.