Extreme Couponing: international heat

I locked Jess in a closet and stole her blog week. That’s right, you’re stuck with me this week.

The day started out well enough, until I turned on the TV and saw a marathon of the US tv show “extreme couponing”. This sent me into a coupon-clipping frenzy. My livingroom looks like a hoarder’s house was attacked by a badger–there’s bits of newspaper everywhere!

I’m writing this from the car. I’m dragging FB to cvs to attempt a massive coupon shopping trip.

UPDATE

WE have returned from our trip to CVS. While I’m certainly not ready for the show I didn’t do too bad. Here’s my haul:

I saved over 50%, bringing home all that for around $90. You’ll notice there isn’t really any food in there. That’s because a) I was at CVS, and b) the food products I see them buy on the show are usually heavily processed boxed/canned things that we don’t eat anyway. We got milk and canned tuna because it was there and we needed it. Also, the people on the show seem to stock up on pasta. I can’t cook pasta. We still don’t have a stove. Whoops.

And yes, I had a coupon for the wine. When I go to the store the register usually spits out alcohol coupons. Ha!