Extreme couponing - Assault with coupons

Extreme couponing - Assault with coupons. Jaime Kirlew is known as the diva of the coupons. Each time you go shopping at the supermarket, the mother of three carefully prepared assault a complex strategy to achieve the greatest savings possible when the car passes per box. She's a pro. To the extent that you get to save 95% of the total value of your purchase.

The U.S. is the paradise of tenders. Especially if you live in the suburbs and knows how to handle a tide of coupons circulating on weekend newspapers, leaflets from supermarkets and internet portals. It is estimated that each year the consumer uses about 3,000 million coupons. So you can get breakfast free birthday.

New technologies are changing the way you buy. But what makes Kirlew has nothing to do with portals that create both discount frenzy on Wall Street, as Groupon or ScoutMob LivingSocial. Theirs is much more laborious and requires hours of dedication. Some even go to empty houses to pick up abandoned newspapers.

These are hard times for many families, especially now that the price of gasoline at the pump is shot. And so they want to buy more for less. CouponSherpa is one of the sites that let you print coupons forever. There are also applications that locate mobile shops where you can double the discount and savings.

Woroch Andrea is one of the experts resorted to by local television to teach consumers how to live with less without radically changing your lifestyle. For a family with few resources to spend time hunting for coupons is in an "effective" he says, to make ends meet. These savers, using sorting folders full of coupons as assault weapon, calling themselves "home economists". The goods worth several thousands of dollars are up in the garage, filled with shelves. And professionals are also several large freezers with food to survive for several months. What we do not use, donate it.

His goal is to get as close to zero, and this latest move control to the cashier when the patient spends hundreds of coupons for the scanner. A obsession? Perhaps, especially when you end up buying products stored in the pantry, and he knows probably will not consume, or just eating things that do not like. TLC cable channel devoted a weekly program for these teachers, there are also men-called discount Extreme couponing. "For many there is only one way to save money is a way of life," says Amy Winter from the chain. But few people are wondering if buying tactics as those used Kirlew are lawful.

Winter claims that they do is show the audience "the tool they need to address today's economy" and help them discover how they can leverage the best deals. "It's the world of ordinary people," riveting. But you do not go to such extremes to achieve substantial savings in the shopping cart.