COUPON CONFESSIONS! Spill your guts!!

[Beka27]

Haha!!! Some funny stuff in here!

Here's mine, and I'm very NOT PROUD but please don't be harsh...

A few months back, our neighbors moved. They were renting the house next door, so they pretty much just picked up and left. Our city has a small Thursday morning local paper that has the town news and a few ads... and the Sunday SS in it.

It was delivered Thursday and sat there.
Friday, it sat there.
Saturday, it rained, so it sat there in a soggy plastic bag.
Sunday, I grabbed it (rescued it!) when I walked down the drive to pick up my Sunday paper.

I figured on the 4th day, it's free game. Besides, it's an eyesore on the front lawn, you know... and it looks like litter. Plus, I've never seen these people again.

[Green is Gold]

Please don't judge...My children are blinkie, peelie, tearpad...BANDITS!
The 10 year old is very casual...grabs 2 shoves them in my purse walks away(they are only allowed to grab 2 each...trying to fly under the radar here) Sometimes the 7 year old gets excited and yells "LOOK MOMMY, I GOT COUPONS!" I just shake my head ever so slightly and real quiet I say, "Ssshh."

[Beka27]

Lol... speaking of tearpads, this isn't really a confession but it was a funny occurrence.

I turned down an aisle at the grocery store, it was early morning and I was the only person in the aisle. All of a sudden I hear a *PLOP*. I look up, and maybe ten feet in front of me a full tearpad had just fallen off the shelf and landed on the floor. I walked over, picked it up (helped myself to a few), and re-stuck it by the product.

Usually finding coupons are not THAT easy!

[Beka27]

One more mini-confession.

We gave our 8-year-old son our old laptop a couple years ago... My husband had won it at a company party, but it was a cheapie laptop and I needed something a little bit better for schoolwork. So when I bought my better laptop, I gave the cheapie, free one to my son for his little computer games and stuff.

Now, when a hot IP coupon becomes available, I will sometimes interrupt his game so I can open the browser and print 2 coupons from his computer also! Once or twice I accidentally closed his game without saving... whoops.

[lovemygirls]

My dad and his girlfriend know I am a coupon user. They live about 5 hours away from us. They will go through the grocery store and collect coupons for me and mail them to me every now and then. My dad told me the last time he was here he could not believe he was taking coupons from the store to mail me. He thinks it is so funny. Of course my response is he is in coupon denial and does not think they save him that much money.

[chocat]

Reading this thread was great fun!

My confession? DH asked me to try and get rid of a stubborn bit of ad-ware on his computer...I secretly installed the coupon print plug-ins so I can print a second set of the really good IPs I come across...and I'm thinking about doing it on the other 2 computers too. 8 chances to print...*chills*

[maidenlady28]

I loved reading through this thread! My confessions:
I will take my dog for midnight walks to take our papers to the recycle bins and check for coupons within reach. My 13 yr old son and i have an agreement: by mid to late week, i will give him $0.10 for every free sunday paper with coupons he can find as long as they are the free ones and close to the street. I have taken peelies of products before.... maybe like 5 at the most. I took peelies off some salad bags that i was helping my mom get. I told her I would look for later exp date ones and instaed I was helping myself to what would have been her peelies... I know I'm bad but she never offers to help with gas and EXSPECTS me just to drive her around shopping even when she knows I have stuff to do. And it was only 4- 75/1 dole salad q's... so it came close to 1 gal of gas in prices. And I have given people q's while shopping before if i had my binder with me and i knew i didnt need or want that q... so all in all...i help and i save...win win right?

[Crzyqponldy]

My confession:

My DD has her first job, at Food Lion! They save all the Sunday inserts for her "coupon mom" in the back room. And she goes down the aisle when doing restock and grabs me 2 of each tearpad, blinkie they have.. Horrible, I have my daughter trained to sniff out coupons!

And if she doesn't work on Tuesday's we go to the recycling center and since she is 5 foot and 110 lbs, she climbs on top and pulls out the papers for me! If we score more then 25 papers with inserts, I take her to get something to eat at her choice!

[catnerd714]

We purchased the house we currently live in three years ago. A secrect factor in my selection of this house is it's close proximity to my favorite recycle bins (a two minute drive away). Those recycle bins have been very good to me over the years!!!

[cake4breakfast]

I was sorting out come peelies and tearpad coupons that I've collected over the last couple of weeks before bed. Apparently, I ended up accidentally passing out towards the tail end and when I woke up this morning I had a peelie stuck to my forehead/caught in my bangs. I didn't even notice until I was brushing my teeth...