What are you watching tonight?

[Annoyed Grunt]

Boring Bank Holiday tv, I'm watching Extreme Couponing. Yes, this is shite tv at its best.

[thebish]

Boring Bank Holiday tv, I'm watching Extreme Couponing. Yes, this is shite tv at its best.

what is "couponing" - and how do you make it extreme?

[Annoyed Grunt]

It's American. It's when you get money off coupons from papers/magazines etc. The extreme part is when their total shop costs $2,000 and using coupons get it to $5. Riveting!

[thebish]

It's American. It's when you get money off coupons from papers/magazines etc. The extreme part is sun their total shop costs $2,000 and using coupons get it to $5. Riveting!

ahh.. surely that involves buying (stealing?) thousands of magazines/papers?

[Annoyed Grunt]

It's American. It's when you get money off coupons from papers/magazines etc. The extreme part is when their total shop costs $2,000 and using coupons get it to $5. Riveting!

ahh.. surely that involves buying (stealing?) thousands of magazines/papers?

Friends/family save them for them. They also go "dumpster diving". It's another word.

[thebish]

It's American. It's when you get money off coupons from papers/magazines etc. The extreme part is when their total shop costs $2,000 and using coupons get it to $5. Riveting!

ahh.. surely that involves buying (stealing?) thousands of magazines/papers?

Friends/family save them for them. They also go "dumpster diving". It's another word.

am gonna have to watch it now! thanks!!

surely - producing $1995-worth of coupons in a queue is gonna seriously piss off those behind you!!

[Annoyed Grunt]

Some people have 6/7 tills going at once.

Its on Discovery Real Time.

[Gooner Girl]

Boring Bank Holiday tv, I'm watching Extreme Couponing. Yes, this is shite tv at its best.

Colin, I've said it before but you really need to get out more!! (now let me get back to my matching up of odd socks...)

[bobo the clown]

Boring Bank Holiday tv, I'm watching Extreme Couponing. Yes, this is shite tv at its best.

Colin, I've said it before but you really need to get out more!! (now let me get back to my matching up of odd socks...)

When you finish up with several 'singles' let me know as I think they are probably here !!

Where the hell do they go ???

[Worthy4England]

Boring Bank Holiday tv, I'm watching Extreme Couponing. Yes, this is shite tv at its best.

Colin, I've said it before but you really need to get out more!! (now let me get back to my matching up of odd socks...)

He can't, he's too busy cutting out coupons.

[thebish]

I keep my coupons in my odd socks...

[Gooner Girl]

Boring Bank Holiday tv, I'm watching Extreme Couponing. Yes, this is shite tv at its best.

Colin, I've said it before but you really need to get out more!! (now let me get back to my matching up of odd socks...)

When you finish up with several 'singles' let me know as I think they are probably here !!

Where the hell do they go ???

Its a mystery. I refuse to sort Mr GG's - they're all various shades of boring black and he doesn't care if they don't match anyway. (I do care, but not enough to spend time sorting them given i have to do mine and the twins.) My odd sock drawer is fuller then my paired sock drawer...

[thebish]

Boring Bank Holiday tv, I'm watching Extreme Couponing. Yes, this is shite tv at its best.

Colin, I've said it before but you really need to get out more!! (now let me get back to my matching up of odd socks...)

When you finish up with several 'singles' let me know as I think they are probably here !!

Where the hell do they go ???

Its a mystery. I refuse to sort Mr GG's - they're all various shades of boring black and he doesn't care if they don't match anyway. (I do care, but not enough to spend time sorting them given i have to do mine and the twins.) My odd sock drawer is fuller then my paired sock drawer...

I'll sort them for you this week in exchange for a taste of your cheese scones...

[Gooner Girl]

Boring Bank Holiday tv, I'm watching Extreme Couponing. Yes, this is shite tv at its best.

Colin, I've said it before but you really need to get out more!! (now let me get back to my matching up of odd socks...)

When you finish up with several 'singles' let me know as I think they are probably here !!

Where the hell do they go ???

Its a mystery. I refuse to sort Mr GG's - they're all various shades of boring black and he doesn't care if they don't match anyway. (I do care, but not enough to spend time sorting them given i have to do mine and the twins.) My odd sock drawer is fuller then my paired sock drawer...

I'll sort them for you this week in exchange for a taste of your cheese scones...

My underwear drawer needs sorting too...

[thebish]

My underwear drawer needs sorting too...

that was gonna be my next question!

[Bruce Rioja]

Boring Bank Holiday tv, I'm watching Extreme Couponing. Yes, this is shite tv at its best.

People that redeem coupons in the supermarket! Oh my.

"Oooh, now if you just hang on a minute, I've got a coupon in here somewhere for two Pence off of the Cup-a-Soup..... just give me a second..... it's in here somewhere...." ARRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!! Here's 20 Pence - and treat yourself with the fecking change!!!!!

[Annoyed Grunt]

Boring Bank Holiday tv, I'm watching Extreme Couponing. Yes, this is shite tv at its best.

Colin, I've said it before but you really need to get out more!! (now let me get back to my matching up of odd socks...)

He can't, he's too busy cutting out coupons.

Boring Bank Holiday tv, I'm watching Extreme Couponing. Yes, this is shite tv at its best.

People that redeem coupons in the supermarket! Oh my.

"Oooh, now if you just hang on a minute, I've got a coupon in here somewhere for two Pence off of the Cup-a-Soup..... just give me a second..... it's in here somewhere...." ARRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!! Here's 20 Pence - and treat yourself with the fecking change!!!!!

These people were getting $3,000 worth of goods for $50....building up stockpiles over $75,000.....serious issues mind.

[Bruce Rioja]

These people were getting $3,000 worth of goods for $50....building up stockpiles over $75,000.....serious issues mind.

Indeed - I may well mock, but the mother of a family that I used to deliver milk to in the eighties was a competition-o-holic. If there was a competition on a product - she was in there. Anyway, turns out that she'd basically kitted their house out from top to bottom (inc. decor and carpets) in competition winnings.
One Friday I turn up to collect that week's brass to be told by her son "We move tomorrow so don't leave any more now". Of course, I asked "Where are you moving to?" which turned out to be outside the area, but the upshot was that she'd won a brand new house.

Seem to remember Granada Reports doing a piece on her at the time, too.

[Worthy4England]

These people were getting $3,000 worth of goods for $50....building up stockpiles over $75,000.....serious issues mind.

Indeed - I may well mock, but the mother of a family that I used to deliver milk to in the eighties was a competition-o-holic. If there was a competition on a product - she was in there. Anyway, turns out that she'd basically kitted their house out from top to bottom (inc. decor and carpets) in competition winnings.
One Friday I turn up to collect that week's brass to be told by her son "We move tomorrow so don't leave any more now". Of course, I asked "Where are you moving to?" which turned out to be outside the area, but the upshot was that she'd won a brand new house.

Seem to remember Granada Reports doing a piece on her at the time, too.

My owd dear did all the comps, bless.

The worst day was when half of a "years supply" of Andrex turned up. Couldn't shift for bog rolls.

[bobo the clown]

A woman near my mum's, in the late 50's or early '60's won a (summer !!) holiday to Switzerland & £50 to spend (a fair sum in the day I guess) for winning a slogan competition.

Of course, the terms meant she gave over the rights to ..... " ... and hands that do dishes can be as soft as your face with mild, green, Fairy Liquid".

To be fair the Company did, many years later, give her a cheque for a bit more.