cvs---Telling all your friends...

[angiek8]

i get mostly supportive comments from my friends/family. they are amazed at what all i get for free and almost free. i am ocd and gets lots so i share my treasures and that helps.

[GreatFun]

Look at it this way -- if you tell all your friends and they get all excited and start doing it too you will have a lot more competition for the limited supply of products for future deals.

There have been plenty of people on this site and others that have complained of a different problem than yours -- they actually got a few of their friends excited and interested and showed them how to do it and then the friends turned out to be shelf clearers so now they can't get the deals like they used to.

[texwifeinct]

We love to hear how well you are doing!! I know what you mean tho my friend that taught me all about this way of life had to move and now I don't have anyone besides my hubby who really understands. It is hard too, because if I even begin to tell someone about it I get super excited and have to remember to hammer down the brakes before someone comes at me with a straight jacket!!!

[jcpal]

That is a good way to think about it. Keep it a secret so others wont get my CVS deals. I hate having to go to my second choice CVS because someone cleared the shelf of that weeks deal.

[newatthis]

Originally Posted by gctattoo I usually don't talk about couponing with people IRL. If they don't care to do it, oh well. They can pay full price and be poor. Not my problem.

Unless people ask, I just don't say much. I use to try to give freinds coupons and tell them where to get the deals, and they let the q's expire, didn't care- so I quit.

Originally Posted by kaylaledford She might eventually, but I try not to bring it up unless she asks about it. If she ever asks me to I'll teach her how to do it.

If they ask, talk talk talk. If they are not interested tho, you are wasting time and breath!


Post about it- find one or two people who listen, the rest really honestly probably don';t care. More deals for yoU!

[saving-n-va]

I was asked to teach a couponing class at church. 18 women showed up. They all seemed interested....as far as I know not one has really gotten into couponing at all. However, I told my niece and one SIL about it and they are loving it. Then told dh's sister about it because she is broke all the time and she said she didn't have the time for it (she wasn't even working at the time and her kids are in their teens?!??) No time...ha! Too lazy.

[ekoury]

Most of my family (and when I say that I mean DH's family because they are the closest) think it is smart to save money this way. They all coupon a little, except for 1 of my SILs. She coupons a lot, but she lives in CA and they do not double where she lives, etc...

My take on it - why spend the money on full price items when I can get a lot more for less? I was raised in a country where credit cards did not exist, there was only 1 bank, and nobody dreamed about "an American dream" with everything that's included in it. I am not used to debt, I am not used to having what you want now and paying for it on a credit card in the next 100 years. While certain things like house, cars need to be bought with a loan, or, emergency spending and big ticket items (laundry machines, freezers, refrigerators, etc) can be put by us on a credit card (with no interest and every possible coupon we can find), we try to pay it off before the interest offer runs out. We are not interested in "you can have it for only $20 per month, and forgot to add, you will pay for it 200 years at that rate." And my DH was born and raised in the USA, but his take on this is the same as mine after the way he struggled in his life.

Couponing allows us to live good and use most brand items and use the money we would otherwise spend on the same items for something else - saving, travel, you name it.

If people are too lazy or do not believe that this is possible, it is their problem. There is saying in my country - fewer people, more oxygen. Means - fewer people do the deals, more for you to have. I tell my friends what I do and if they ask more questions, I tell them the secrets. If they do not seem to be interested, I leave it alone. To each is own...

[DJH715]

My hubby, kids and friends thought I was crazy when I started too. I started filling the shelves in my garage and they figured I lost it. Now they love to do what we call "going shopping in the garage" when they run out of something. My 24 year old daughter who was one of my biggest critics in the beginning, just loves how much money her mom saves her now. She even brags on my deals to her friends and their moms. My girlfriends were skeptics too saying "we don't have enough time to do this". Well they are now using coupons when they do their regular shopping. They don't mega shop or anything, but they have been telling me "wow I saved $25 in coupons today" and my response is always "well better in your pocket than in theirs, that will pay part of your cable bill or put gas in your car." They are now starting to get it. Keep your head high and don't let people make you feel bad for saving your family money. If they choose to spend more for things than they should well to each his own. You always have your couponing buddies here at HCW to talk to about your great deals.

[txvillan]

Same thing here my DH, and DD age 16 where skeptical at first. But, what I did is take them shopping with me with my coupons and they where both so surprised and happy of how much money I saved. Now when I go do my deals my DH says how much did you save. Instead of saying how much did you spend. I told my SIL's about it I have three and one got really into it. So now we both go to work the deals. It's great to have you all to talk about if there was no else I could share my savings with.

[nicellis0325]

My friends think its cool, and then they want me to hold their hand to help them get deals. I love to teach people to do it, but if they aren't really in to it, then what's the point? It gets really frustrating when they want me to give them the scenario, the coupons, and go with them to do it. It takes a lot of extra time to do it, and I feel like it is taking advantage of me when they don't follow through and just learn to do it themselves! Does anyone else encounter this, or am I just crazy? It seems like they want the end result, but do not want to do any work to get there.