- 8 months ago
Extreme Couponing
Category
📺
TVTranscript
00:00for extreme couponers retail prices are out of the question in this house full price is the f
00:08word we get two for the price of one kind of like having two babies at the same time in this half
00:14hour meet a woman whose closet doubles as her personal pharmacy i'm going to go into menopause
00:19before i use up all of these feminine products and a man who spends his days on the radio
00:25scotty b a resident and his nights admiring his most prized possession this is my pride and joy
00:32to the doubters who say that couponing is not manly it is man because i'm a man one shoppers
00:38after coupon total goes the wrong way okay why is my total going up while another coupon addict can
00:44barely stand the drama at checkout this is more stressful than being in the delivery room
00:50these are shopping trips that'll keep your heart racing
00:54this is extreme couponing
00:58scotty b is in the room hey we make fun of you for being such a coupon
01:11weirdo freak freak have you ever thought about how much money you save per year it's in excess
01:18of ten thousand wow while women handle sixty two percent of all grocery shopping trips
01:25long island new york radio producer scott b wears the couponing pants when it comes to his family's
01:30purchases my name is scott and i am the coupon king i don't consider myself a shopaholic i consider
01:37myself a saveaholic and if i won a hundred million dollars in the lottery tomorrow i'd still be
01:42clipping coupons on sunday morning with a 24 karat gold scissor but i'm still gonna do it
01:46i do in this house full price is the f word scott's obsession with saving every penny possible
01:57has not only taken over his home life but even extends to his day job i am a producer for a
02:02syndicated morning radio show in new york city one of the things i do there is a blog on the morning
02:06show website about anything from supermarket savings to online savings i get a ribbing from
02:12my co-workers all the time because i'm the cheap guy the other day i was at his house oh god it looks
02:17like you're prepared for some sort of nuclear holocaust he has an entire grocery store in his basement it
02:24was free how could i not buy it to say that scotty is obsessed with couponing is an understatement
02:30scott will never buy anything without a coupon it's blasphemy scotty b our resident chief
02:35in the last three years scott has built a stockpile that could last him his wife amy
02:42and their three-year-old daughter ashley for up to one year this is my pride and joy i love my kids
02:49and my wife but i love my stockpile one of the most exciting days of my life was when i found out my wife
02:54was pregnant the second time but even a little bit more exciting was the fact that i knew i could go buy
02:58diapers all these diapers should have cost an excess of 600 dollars i paid maybe around 100 bucks for
03:03with the birth of his second child just weeks away scott has stockpiled over 2,500 diapers and six
03:09months worth of baby formula his stash also includes 32 boxes of cereal 400 rolls of toilet paper and
03:16enough shampoo to last his family for up to two years he's so proud of his stockpile i find him on a
03:23random night downstairs what are you doing nothing and he'll be staring at it
03:29amassing such a large stockpile means that scott spends hours at a time couponing he will make up
03:36to four trips a week to the grocery store to ensure he's getting the best deals at all times
03:40it's a little harder being from new york to save money on grocery items because they are more
03:44expensive but if you really work at it it's possible every sunday he is cutting clipping
03:51he's researching he's in his mindset and you can't talk to him it makes me crazy every sunday
03:59i'm constantly scouring the web for good deals and for printable coupons there are also plenty
04:07of apps on smartphones that you can use coupon applications allow consumers to download additional
04:12coupons that can be used anywhere from restaurants to online shopping to grocery stores this one is
04:17telling me what's on sale this week and it's giving me e-coupons so all i have to do is click
04:21and it automatically goes right to my store loyalty card at the register these coupons automatically come
04:26off so if you have paper coupons you can use them in conjunction with these and get double the
04:30savings to make ends meet while living in the suburbs of the most expensive city in the united states
04:36scott is forced to constantly strategize the best ways to save at the grocery store here in new york
04:41you pay a nickel deposit on every can or bottle that you buy so every time i go to the supermarket
04:46i take all my bottles back and they print out a voucher that technically is like a coupon that
04:51comes off your order at the end there's also a family rewards program where you buy certain items
04:56points go into your account and you can redeem them for anything from gift cards to money off your
05:01next bill today scott is relying heavily on his couponing strategies as he prepares to stock up on
05:06everything he could need before his wife gives birth i am a little bit nervous about this one
05:11with one daughter already and another child on the way it's really important that i have everything i
05:16need for them because when baby number two comes along i'm not going to have a lot of time to go shopping
05:20the pressure of paying less for such a colossal haul is even more intense because his store limits the
05:26maximum number of the same item bought with coupons to no more than four they restrict you to four
05:31coupons they only double up to 99 cents so i cannot get a dollar coupon doubled they will not double
05:37internet coupons um so all these variables kind of come into play when i'm thinking about what i'm
05:43going to buy my wife is banned from coming shopping with me because she tends to put things in the cart
05:48that are not on sale and not on my list this certainly will be one of the largest shopping trips
05:53i've ever done so i will enlist my wife and daughter to come along on this trip only
05:57i'm gonna need your help this time i can go you can push the cart that's it you will put nothing in
06:04i'm allowed to go shopping with him today and only today because he needs me to push a shopping cart
06:09nine months pregnant and i have to push a shopping cart i'm excited liar
06:15with his wife and daughter in tow scott heads to the supermarket if all goes according to plan today
06:22he'll buy around 500 worth of groceries for less than 35
06:26let's do the formula first four bottles of the baby formula cost 19.99 scott has coupons totaling
06:3812 in savings he will cover the remainder of the cost with manufacturer discount checks
06:43which he received simply by emailing a request to the company
06:47actually look at these drinks it's strawberry milk and it's on sale for 2.99 and daddy has a
06:58coupon for two dollars off so this is only 99 cents and buying these gives me more points in the baby
07:03bucks program the baby bucks program here is every time you spend a hundred dollars on baby items they
07:08give you ten dollars off your next shopping order with the majority of the shopping list taken care of
07:14amy and ashley take a little break while scott gathers up the last remaining items
07:19so it's milk time this was a great deal last week here at the supermarket if you bought three boxes of cereal
07:24you got a free gallon of milk up to 379 so i've got two of them here for buying six boxes of cereal
07:37with his wife and daughter back at his side two carts full of merchandise and all his coupons scott heads to the register
07:42how are you good how are you i was unbelievably overwhelmed with what i was about to encounter
07:50it was actually really frightening
07:52drama at checkout makes scott sick to his stomach
07:57long isle new york father and radio producer scott b has taken on a massive shopping trip in preparation
08:11for the upcoming birth of a second child with two carts full of food household goods and baby products
08:17scott his wife amy and daughter ashley head for check out let's do this
08:27one more awesome thank you good job the more stuff i'm putting up the more nervous i'm getting
08:33we're at 150 right now and i can't believe we've already spent this much
08:41my heart was racing and you could tell my my face was red and my ears were red and i just wanted to
08:46make sure that i did it right right now we're just under 400 393 15. i'm glad i don't come with you this is
08:53very stressful all right your total is 4 29 06. that's the most i've ever seen at the supermarket
09:03so many coupons today of course i do thank you this is the biggest stack of coupons i've ever seen
09:08this is more stressful than being in the delivery room
09:22it's an invalid coupon scott's checkout comes to a halt when one of his high value coupons fails to
09:28scan at the register the coupon wasn't scanning and i got scared because it was a three dollar
09:32plus coupon and it had to go otherwise my numbers would be off let me call my manager
09:37service eight please service eight he has the item
09:45i really don't like when cashiers scrutinize my coupons i'm a professional so i'm not going
09:49to give you something that's not valid or for an item that i didn't purchase
09:52how come sometimes they don't stand unfortunately sometimes the barcodes on here like when they have
09:57double barcoding some of them match and some of them don't it was a little nerve-wracking for a
10:01minute until it actually went through but scott's relief is short-lived i got a call for an override
10:06with multiple coupons not scanning properly the manager is called over several times every time
10:11another coupon has a scan my heart skips a beat a little bit do you just have to override it and i
10:14still can use it okay breathe breathe that's right under 200 we're getting there
10:32your total after everything is 15.87
10:35good job when i heard it was 15.87 for 429 dollars worth of groceries it was just euphoria comes
10:44over you i mean that was the the best feeling ever i was quite nervous for him i don't think i'll be
10:50joining him on future shopping trips it's too stressful so but i'm very proud of you thank you
10:57scott's purchase includes 15 cleaning products 18 beverages and 25 baby care products for a retail value of
11:04four hundred twenty nine dollars six cents but he manages to bring his out-of-pocket expense down to
11:09fifteen dollars and 87 cents for a 96 savings it's a huge rush to go into the store with a stack of
11:17coupons and know that you're about to save hundreds and hundreds of dollars it seems almost impossible
11:22but i was able to do it okay these are the coupons we can use meet a mom who will stop at nothing to find
11:30extreme savings everywhere my biggest savings ever is having twins i did not have to pay two hospital bills
11:42so do you want to be cashier or customer customer we have been doing a pretend grocery
11:47store in the house you owe me three cents
11:52while the average american parent may be teaching their six-year-old to count to ten extreme
11:56couponer jen freeman is teaching her twins how to save so can you tell me what this coupon means
12:02buy one get one free so we get two for the price of one i'm jennifer and i'm an extreme couponer because
12:10every time i leave my house my husband says i'm coming home with a deal so we're gonna get some hot
12:14sauce and i'm gonna load the neighborhood up with hot sauce i'm a little different the way that i use
12:20coupons because i save hundreds instead of ten dollars look at these are the coupons we can use
12:28my biggest savings ever is having twins two kids at once i did not have to pay two hospital bills
12:35for over a decade this stay-at-home mother of homeschooled six-year-old twins has been couponing
12:39for all her family's needs her current stockpile contains more than 2100 products in four separate rooms
12:46but her favorite room the in-house pharmacy i have a bag of melatonin there's about 100 in here
12:56we don't sleep very well melatonin is our lifesaver i bought a lot of this kids pain reliever when you
13:02have a tummy ache you don't want to go to the store you have what you need in here i'm going to go into
13:06menopause before i use up all of these feminine products while she's a coupon veteran today jen first
13:14learned how to make ends meet shopping at the military commissary 15 years ago when her husband
13:18was deployed overseas we went to japan prices were so much more expensive the average enlisted person
13:25doesn't make that much money it's pretty tight she figured out this coupon thing and um she just kind
13:31of ran with it when you're overseas with a military base you can use coupons for six months after they
13:35expire so i would get big boxes of coupons in the mail it was the best thing in the world when jen
13:40returned to the states saving money wasn't easy she changed her strategy by scouring the internet
13:45for deals and enlisting the help of friends and neighbors how are you you have treasures i do tons
13:52of coupons you found so many jen mike's here oh my goodness wow that's fantastic
14:03after jen matches more than 350 coupons to her supermarket circular it's just a matter of timing
14:11she'll shop on the one day of the week that her store offers an additional five percent discount
14:15for military families
14:19all right sweetie come on today jen's hoping to get grocery items for every member of her family
14:24and what will be her biggest haul to date we're gonna see if we can hit it maybe a thousand dollar mark
14:31or close to it and get it down under 100 that's my goal first up her kid's favorite aisle
14:42how high can you guys count jen asked lindsey and alex to count out 50 boxes of gummy candy
14:47on sale for 63 cents each 44 45 46 and with her buy one get one free coupons they'll end up costing just 32
14:57cents a box jen then moves on to a deal for the whole family 22 microwave dinners each one retails
15:06for two dollars 79 cents but she'll get a deal using both a manufacturer coupon and a buy one get one
15:11free coupon this is my trick try to match your buy one with another cents off discount i am using buy one
15:18get one free and i am using the 55 cent off coupon on my buy one to lower that price again by combining
15:27coupons jen will get two dinners for just two dollars and 44 cents as she continues shopping her
15:33kids are growing restless alex please stop messing with the cart shoving with kids is always a challenge
15:41it's trying to come up with things to keep them occupied to keep her kids busy and her own
15:45calculations on track jen sends her family one aisle over for another item on the list unfortunately for
15:51mike what it's feminine products okay i don't know anything about these so this is a new experience
15:59for me how many did i need guys remember boy we may be in a world of hurt here i may need mom
16:06a few minutes alone gives jen a chance to resort her coupons and refocus her strategy so she can rescue
16:11her husband from coupon confusion let me teach you oh dear with nearly 400 items filling three shopping
16:20courts jen and her family head to the register ready for savings hi how are you good are you ready yeah
16:30oh that's the beep you don't want to hear for the first time a master couponers final tally
16:35isn't so final okay why is my total going up at this supermarket in las vegas nevada coupon veteran
16:49jen freeman has filled three cards with more than 700 items for her family despite restless kids and
16:54a husband unsure how to coupon she's rolling into checkout with her biggest all ever i do think it's
17:00going to be over uh 900 down to below 100. just double checking my numbers as we're running all of
17:11this through the nerves kind of build it's like reminds me of birthing twins it's like birthing my
17:17shopping trip what's the total up to okay 690. oh my goodness
17:30that's scary i've never bought this many groceries in my life so we have to get the total down way down
17:44we can take off your military discount to start the military discount takes five percent off nearly
17:50every product she buys but jen must rely on her stack of coupons for even bigger savings i am going to give
17:56you the daunting task of my coupons here is the monstrous stack you like the sweat i know dab my brow
18:10that's a good beeping sound it's going through come on come on you have to get to all of my freebies
18:19oh that's the beep you don't want to hear
18:21that sound means the cashier must manually enter the item's discount to jen's bill
18:27i haven't seen this many coupons in a single transaction so my eyes are starting to really flip out
18:38this needs to come down by about double that a bunch only 294.31 left
18:45all right where are we at down to 65.90
19:01okay after everything we are down to 55.90 for the savings of 809.75
19:08cents that's amazing that's great alex lindsay look did you see how much we saved look at
19:17but just as the cashier goes to print the receipt the final price unexpectedly rises
19:23okay why is my total going up i wasn't sure what's happening i thought well maybe
19:28the tax added back in or i you know i just really wasn't sure the cashier realizes the register had taken
19:36the five percent military discount off jen's total before coupons rather than after uh we put in the
19:42military discount and then we did all the coupons on it you couldn't double dip on the coupon
19:47since no discount can be added to items that are already 100 free the register recalculates jen's purchase
19:56all right your new toll now
19:58is 88 20. that's still amazing i wanted it under 100 bucks that's what i wanted under 100 because
20:08this is what we had to spend today so we're in the money thank you under 100 bucks i i did good yay
20:18good job jen's hall is her biggest trip ever and includes 16 barbecue sauces 30 bottle beverages and
20:27123 packages of candy the total retail price came to 880 dollars 98 cents after coupons jen spent just
20:3688 dollars and 20 cents a total savings of 90 the next time i think i will do a shopping trip is going
20:44to be a while i think i've begun to master couponing it's kind of second nature now today was a great
20:50shopping day it was crazy but it was fun
Be the first to comment