I can’t believe people are still watching this show. No, it’s not sour grapes because I wasn’t invited to be on it. I genuinely find it disinteresting.
Here’s the plot: They show someone spending hours upon hours clipping coupons. Highlights of their massive stockpiles that rival some community food pantries. Couponer plans out a trip then goes to store and fills up multiple shopping carts with CRAP. It’s always ramen noodles, fruit rollups and soda. Or some other items that are of the same nutritional quality. Stuff that I would never feed my kids in million years. Throw in a couple hundred items from HBA for added effect (either toothbrushes or deodorant) and head to registers.
Oooohhhhh, and then the suspense begins! Will all the coupons scan correctly? Will the register lock up? Will they have to split up their orders? What will the final total be? (insert your own level of sarcasm here)
I bet that is exactly what happened on last night’s episode, right? And I didn’t even watch it. It’s the same reason I’ve only ever watched a couple of episodes of Deadliest Catch. It’s the same show, over and over. Guys head out fishing, encounter bad weather, couple of guys in the crew don’t get along, they head home. Lather rinse repeat.
I hate what the show is doing to couponing. I hate that people ask me about it all the time. “Have you seen it?” “Is that what you do?” “Do you have that much stuff in your house?” For the record, my answers are yes, sort of-but not to that extent, and of course not.
It paints an unrealistic picture of what supercouponing is all about. It encourages fraud. It makes us all look like hoarders, when *most* of us are just trying to save money for our families and not be greedy. It causes us sane and normal couponers to have to explain ourselves, over and over, so that we don’t look crazy. It has only served to give TLC decent ratings and a few extreme couponers extra publicity for their websites. The only people who seem to enjoy the show are the people that are on it & some of their blog followers. The rest of the coupon world, by and large, dislikes the show. You want to get free stuff like that? Great. Then stop watching the show. Because the more publicity it gets, the more the big stores are going to clamp down on their generous coupon policies. Several big chains in the south and the midwest have recently changed their policies, and not in the couponer’s favor. I think it’s more than coincidence that it happened right as the show became popular. How many shows are left in the season? Is it almost over?
Related: CIC statement on the show. Opinion from Coupons, Deals & More. Hotcouponworld forums/blogs discussion.
One big fat YAWN. Nothing more exciting than watching someone go shopping!