Store OWES MONEY To An Extreme Couponer & More Money Saving Methods! | Extreme Couponing

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1. Desiree Young: The Dumpster Diver

  • Strategy: Desiree dives into dumpsters behind businesses and recycling bins to find discarded coupon inserts, viewing them as “free money.”

  • Effort: She spends roughly 60 hours a week on couponing, treating it as a full-time job involving online prep, bin diving, and binder organization.

  • The Haul:

    • Goal: To spend under $55 for over $1,000 worth of groceries.

    • Result: She bought $1,776 worth of goods (including 20 boxes of toothpaste and 96 beverages) for just $21.26—a 98% savings.

2. Jamie “The Diva”: Image-Conscious Couponing

  • Context: After her husband lost his job, she turned to couponing to maintain their upper-middle-class lifestyle without looking like she was struggling.

  • Stockpile: She converted her recreation room into a “coupon cave” containing ~1,000 coupon inserts worth $40,000. She even stores toilet paper in her shower.

  • The Haul:

    • Goal: To spend $100 for a list of 1,300 items.

    • Result: The register froze due to the volume of items. The total retail value was $1,926, but she paid only $13.72.

3. Missy: The “Day After Christmas” Strategist

  • Strategy: She targets post-holiday clearance sales (up to 75% off) combined with coupons to buy gifts for the entire upcoming year.

  • Charity: A significant portion of her stockpile (e.g., 600 packages of noodles) is donated to food banks or sent to soldiers overseas.

  • The Overage Trick: In one transaction, her coupons exceeded the value of the items so much that the store technically “owed” her money. She used this “overage” credit to buy meat, which rarely has coupons.

  • Result: She spent $4.53 for a haul valued at $1,161.

4. Ty & Taran: The “Double Saving Divas”

  • Dynamic: Identical twins who have couponed since childhood. They focus on health and beauty items (vitamins, diapers) rather than just food.

  • Strategy: They use “stacking”—combining manufacturer coupons with store-specific loyalty discounts and gift card rewards.

  • The Haul:

    • Goal: To spend under $60 for a birthday celebration haul.

    • Result: They purchased $422 worth of vitamins, diapers, and pork chops for just $19.96 (including a $6 tip).

I want to acknowledge the lady who helps her family, some military folks, and donates from her stockpile. That’s the way to do it! I have a new friend who does extreme couponing. She does NOT have a huge stockpile. When she invites some friends (currently homeless) to hang out, she invites us to “shop” from the small stockpile in her garage. Such a generous soul!

I would love to know what these couponers did during the covid craziness. Did they hoard, share, resell items? You can no longer get coupons like this. The stores use their apps and only allow 1 or at best 2 items with a coupon. Some stores you have to buy 5 items in order to get the lower price. I wish TLC would do catch ups on all of these couponers. Also, if you are devoting 60 hours a week to couponing, you should get a job and work 40 hours a week.

They will have carts full of frozen food that you know has defrosted once they check out because it’s been out of the freezer for so long. But yeah, because of this, the stores have line-item limits, and even coupons have limits. I purchased some contact lens solutions and had excellent coupons. I had to do separate orders for them, and I was only buying a total of 6 things because Walmart won’t allow two of the same coupon on an order. Also, before people started yelling, ‘Who needs 6?’, just a single bottle of contact lens solution is $10, and the twin packs are like $16+, and if you wear contacts regularly, you go through that quickly. Coupons rarely come out for this item, but when it does, it’s like $4 off a single and like $5 off the twin packs. Yeah, you are going to stock up if you can.

most of these items are shelf/pantry stuff.. cakes, cookies, candy! not a single piece of meat or vegetable produce.. just boxes of stuff.. the healthiest thing l saw on the first womans (toothpaste, but you dont eat that) is the gatorade.. and unless she got ‘zero’ it has a ton of sugar in it..

I Have found a local shelter to help me with cat food. For my cat, the shelter is actually for dogs. But within their donations, they get a lot of cat food and I called them, and they’re able to help me. So for the last 2 months, they have been giving me all the cat food that I need for my cats, and I have feral cats outside and they’re all about helping people who do that kind of stuff. And I have been blessed. These people are so kind, and when they get their donations at the beginning of the month, I go and pick up about 2 to 3 weeks at a time and And then what they have left over at the end of the month , they’ll call and let us know if we want to come by and pick it up before they get their donations.

If anyone is thinking of coupoing like this, although idk if stores even allow this extent of couponing, Missy is a perfect example, because instead of just hoarding for herself, she helps our her family, she sponsors soldiers, she helps food drives and gives a ton to her community, but the other people would seemingly needlessly hoard for themselves and end up with more than they need and one lady in another video had an eating problem because of the excessive food she had at her disposal.

No one should think of these products as just money, because you can use money anytime, but products can go bad, and some of these people didn’t even use the products they bought because they didn’t even NEED them. That’s just another way of wasting money.