Super bizarre question that we have that we're going to tackle today.
You've heard those extreme couponers, right?
Well today, we're going to be addressing a question that some of you have been asking
which is, can you actually create wealth by being an extreme couponer?
Coupons vs. coupons.
How do you actually say it?
I think my whole life I've said coupons and my wife always correct me, coupons.
Today, we're talking about will clipping coupons make you wealthy?
And I got to tell you right now, my wife went through this phase a couple years ago, she's
an extreme closet prepper and for those of you who don't know what that means, my wife
thinks that we should be completely self sustained which means, should anything ever happen environmentally
or to our country or should the politicians hit the nuc button or just some crazy stuff
happen, the question is, do we understand how to plant and grow things out of the ground?
Do we know how to be prepared?
Do we know how to prepare for whatever might come?
And this video here in this question that some of you have asked is, can you get wealthy
through clipping coupons?
We never figured out how to do that but my wife went through a phase and this is what
couponing can do, it means that no matter what, we never run out of toothbrushes or
floss because do you know what my wife probably paid for these?
She probably got paid to take these things from the store.
There's this, if you watch the videos online or some of the TV shows, my wife was super
fascinated, she got into this whole season of couponing and people fill up these shopping
carts filled with stuff and then when she got to the check out line, they would actually
get paid sometimes or sometimes pay like $2.48 or $12 for shopping carts full of stuff.
Not even stuff that you necessarily need and it's like this thing and so my wife actually
tried it and right now, in this bucket, all the deodorant I could use for the next several
years, Aim toothpaste, hair elastics, and not only that, it went so far as when my wife
would travel around the country, would save all of the leftover soap, shampoo, conditioner
that the hotel had offered.
Kind of a funny deal, right?
The woman has the ability to buy all of these things but for her, it was so fun for her
to get into this couponing mix and figure out, oh my gosh, is it really true?
And so by the way, yes, there's a course that she bought from this lady for like, almost
nothing and then she registered with all this different papers and magazines and started
receiving all of these things in one end and started cutting and collecting and gathering
them all together and managing their expiration dates and putting them on an excel file and
then she would go out shopping, she'd hit the stores and she'd bring out her massive
coupon book and then we'd just take as much as she could off of the shelf, getting all
of these amazing deals on things and can you be wealthy with it?
I don't know but I know that whenever I'm out of deodorant, instead of telling my wife
to get some at the store, it's just downstairs in the purple room basement, the Armageddon
room so that no matter what, if it's the end of the world, I'm going to smell, you can't
look like but you can smell like me, right?
That dude.
Actually, for Christmas I got a pair of socks of the black guy on the horse looking at,
you know, if you've watched that commercial.
Anyway, super funny.
So couponing, it was just a phase of hers, it's nothing that we do anymore these days.
I don't know if you could really get wealthy with it but you know what?
If you're frugal, it could absolutely help you store up a bunch of stuff.
Here's what we found out, the things that we really wanted, we couldn't get.
It only applied to certain things and certain products and it applied a lot to hygienic
items instead of food items so at the end of the day, Kalenn never really figured out
how to coupon is such a manner that she could take care of all of her family needs and give
us everything that we wanted through extreme couponing so that's why we ultimately ditched
it but I do want to throw a caution out.
There is a danger to the couponing mindset.
In fact, it's not a small danger, it's a massive danger.
You have to ask yourself why you're doing it.
If you're doing it because you like how you're allocating resource, that's very different
than doing it to save money.
You see, if you're trying to save 12¢ here and 58¢ here and a dollar here and 42¢ there,
you can allow your mind to get warped around this idea of saving and saving and saving
and reality is, no amount of couponing is going to make you wealthy.
If anything, it can just cut down on your bills, right?
And there's a danger to the thinking of allowing your mind to get warped with this notion that
everything has got to be a deal, I got to get everything half off, I got to get everything
for free, I got to get everything, you apply it to really small those simple things in
life and all of a sudden, how does that impact the big decisions of life?
Well, I know a lot of people that have done a good job at saving money that are miserable.
They are absolutely unhappy because they've got the couponing mindset.
Couponing mindset, couponing mindset.
So instead, my invitation is to develop a mindset of abundance that says, hey, we're
prosperous, there's always more than enough.
If you want to coupon for the fun of it, for the heck of it, because you want to store
up some great resources through couponing, go for it.
If it's because you have to save money, live or die and you're going to bring the fear
based scarcity energy in, I'd say it might be better not to do it at all because you're
just going to reinforce programming that is going to keep you from getting where you want
to go.
Mindset, what is your mindset?
That should determine whether you should actually want to go down the road of couponing.
Can you get wealthy?
I don't know really how but my basement is now full of all sorts of goodies when it comes
to our health care needs.
My friends, that is extreme couponing.
Can you create wealth with it?
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