My husband coupons. I can’t begin to understand his methods but he often comes home and says, “I got this for free.” And we are barely making ends meet, so for us it’s a good thing. We mostly stock up on canned goods and frozen food.
I’ve seen the show several times and it would annoy me to have to get in line behind someone pushing two carts and a pallet of stuff, then proceed to break the cash register with all of their coupons. We’re nowhere near that bad.
I’ll keep an eye out for it, but what I had in mind was not watching inept builders but daredevil builders, i.e. “who needs an oven - we’ll install a flamethrower in the kitchen!”
The ones that drive me crazy are the home renovation shows that say you can totally re-do your kitchen for just $1,000 and show you how by having a professional decorator, carpenter, painters, tilers, and plumbers all donate their services for free. So a real person could buy the same $1,000 in products, but it wouldn’t look or function anywhere as nice because they couldn’t afford the professionals to make it work right.
That is normal couponing.
Extreme couponing shows have always seemed to me to not match reality. I don’t recall there ever being a time in the past 35 years where there was not a small limit to the number of items you could get with coupons or verbiage on the coupons saying that it could not be combined with other offers. In short the entire show was lies from start to finish.