Has anyone else watched Extreme Cheapskates on discovery health? It really is eye opening!
Extreme Cheapskates on Foxtel
alwaysis on 22/12/2013 - 17:19
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Netflix.
isnt that the show where a couple were collectin tomato sauce satchels and sugar from McDonalds to refill their tomato sauce bottle and sugar jar at home?
I think there were even coupon queens who would stack multiple coupons to get groceries for next to nothing.
Didn't see that one :)
It's called Extreme Couponing, and some of them actually made money through their couponing, though the most I've seen is a $50 profit (and $1000 worth of products).
I can't believe the stores don't just put "limit 5 coupons per customer per day" or something. I don't know, but letting yourself lose that much profit for the sake of some crazy bargainer seems stupid.
Knowing the extreme coupon-ers, they would just get 50 people so they could use 250 coupons, lol.
They did this in the show lol - one store said that there was a limit per person and they just called up all their friends to stand with them in the checkout line.
Well, the store doesn't lose any money from couponers, they mail the coupons in to the company the coupon is from and they get the money back so most of them don't particularly care lol.
It's hilarious to see that most of the people in the show always buy hundreds of bottles of Powerade because they make money off of it.
Real cheapskates would download the show haha…
Anyway I have seen it - some of the stuff astounds even myself and I consider myself pretty frugal…like one dude washing his clothes in the shower because he was too tight to pay for water. Or another guy reusing kitchen paper by drying on a line
I only watched it for the first time today. Some of the highlights were getting food out of bins regularly and serving to guests, taking used disposable containers and cutlery home from cafes, washing clothes in shower, urinating in a jar to use urine in the garden, only flushing toilet once a week!!
In the Pilot, the guy purchased a $9 shirt several years ago and ended up with a ink stain on the pocket. He received a quote of $12 from the dry cleaner, he donated it to the thrift shop, and several days later bought the shirt back for $1, stain free.
Watched an episode on Netflix before - rewashable handkerchiefs for toilet paper, even for guests… does anyone on OzB do that lol?
She justified that all the bacteria and poo is killed by the washing machine cycle so it's perfectly fine and clean for next use.
This form of bargain hunting is a mental disease, these people will die with millions in the bank that their children will blow on hard drugs.
Saw the toilet paper one and I question the savings if you are using detergent, hot water, energy to wash
No, Foxtel is too expensive.