Extreme Couponing - The TV Show - Revisited

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When TLC started it's Extreme Couponing (EC) show, I was excited, and I hoped that I might learn a few things since I am still relatively new to couponing.  Wow, was I wrong! 

If my impression about couponers came only from the EC show, I would think that couponers were a greedy, sneaky bunch who, overall, are crazy!  One of the couponers said that her addicition to couponing was like an addiction to crack or crystal meth!  Oh my!  I wondered how a supposedly sane person could make a stupid comment like that!  Another couponer told her almost adult son that she was buying cereal that she knows he doesn't like but she is buying it because she has a coupon for it.  On top of that another one of TLC's ECers is being investigated for coupon faud.

In the real world, the majority of couponers are honest.  They take their couponing seriously, but  they care about people.  The honest couponers also do not clear the shelves, and they give a lot of their free items to those in need.

Because of the crap that some of the EC couponers are doing (like cleaning shelves and causing problems at the check-out) and getting so many things for free, stores have begun to change their coupon-related policies which are starting to hurt the honest couponers who have no intentions of buying $1000+ of food at one time, and spending just a few hundred dollars.

I am now boycotting that EC show.  Additionally, I have emailed TLC and told them that in my opinion, their situations are false.  Apparently, since stores get some publicity, the stores suspend their coupon policies for the extreme couponers appearing on the show.  Sorry, but that is not fair. 

Okay, sorry for ranting, but I am upset that TLC has made couponers look like wackos.  My next posting will be back to normal!  :-)