Who Is Truly the Coupon Queen?

Several women have been anointed with the title of Coupon Queen. But whose coupon-clipping, money-saving skills are so impressive that we should bow in awe of their majesty?

Something tells me that few actual queens clip coupons—but perhaps the Queen of England should, in light of her recent financial woes.

In these YouTube videos, various Coupon Queens reveal their overstocked pantries and walk viewers through the grocery aisles to show off how it’s done. Will the real Coupon Queen please stand up? Among the contenders for the throne are:

Coupon Queen Heather Tenney
She can talk serious coupon smack: “By the time it takes most people to cut one coupon,” she says, “I can cut 30.” Using her huge coupon binder, Tenney pays $13.69 for more than $135 worth of stuff, including 10 free packs of hot dogs and 10 free packages of toilet paper. People in her coupon seminars (yes, she gives seminars) say they’ve been able to come out of foreclosure because of what they’ve learned from her about coupons. This Coupon Queen also goes by the name Little Miss Know It All.

Chicago Coupon Queen Jill Cataldo
Clearly, this trip to the supermarket isn’t Cataldo’s first time using coupons: Her baby can identify the word “FREE.” Cataldo, who calls herself a Super-Couponer, also teaches classes on using coupons and sells a Super-Couponing DVD for $20.

The Original Coupon Queen Susan Samtur
Samtur is either a tiny woman or she’s gotten hold of an enormous shopping cart. No matter, because she’s powerful enough to bag over $100 worth of groceries for $7.35. A little tip that might be overlooked in this video: If you’re stockpiling tons of stuff, remember to push the older stuff up to the front of your shelves so that you’ll use it first. Otherwise, you’ll use the new stuff, and the old stuff will get really, really old. Yes, she too gives seminars. She also has a website and magazine called RefundleBundle, and has done lots of TV appearances, including Maury Povich, MSNBC, and more.

Stockpiling with the Coupon Queen
She piles up cereal boxes ten deep, and at certain points has had as many as 140 boxes in her pantry. She’s got enough tea, Hamburger Helper, hot sauce, aluminum foil, toothpaste, and shampoo to open her own mini-mart. No seminars or DVDs as far as I can tell, but she does mention that she has six children.

Coupon Queen Jolinda Eibert
Free bread and nearly free lunch meat are among Eibert’s finds in her grocery store venture, during which $939.06 worth of stuff winds up costing her $185.73. Ever the perfectionist, he’s not happy with her takeaway. She was hoping the trip to the store would have cost under three figures.

Q&A with Consumer Queen Melissa Garcia

Done Deal: CBS Gives Green Light to Sitcom Based on Groupon

Daily deal giant Groupon is known for its peculiar sense of humor. There was the time the site “bought” April Fool’s Day. The introduction of marketing gimmicks like the creepy virtual discount wheel called “Clicky” can only be attributed to some offbeat sense of what’s amusing. And of course, from the beginning, subscribers have been reading Groupon’s trademark absurdist, careful-not-to-offend descriptions for deals arriving in their in-boxes. The fact that there’s a network sitcom in the works featuring Groupon is apparently no joke, however.

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When it comes to fashion, a deal is not a deal unless you wear what you buy until it is no longer wearable. A group of former premium jeans buying women have decided to give up the habit of buying apparel for one year reagardless of the deals that retailers are offering. Yes you heard it right. 40 women, hailing from twelve different states, and one in the U.K. and one from Canada have bonded together on a blog with the single goal of giving up apparel purchases for one year. The blog is called The Great American Apparel Diet, http://www.thegreatamericanappareldiet.com. On the blog women share ideas, horror stories and tips on how to shop from your own closet without falling into frumpy land. The group is looking to grow the movement by allowing women to join up until Dec. 31st of 2009. The diet ends on August 31st, 2010 regardless of when you join. Most of the women started the “diet” on Sept. 1st 2009. All but a few are still on the wagon and enjoying the commarderie of like minded souls who want to be more mindful of their spending.
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This year I have saved $21,734.00 by using coupons. The great part is I only spent around $500.00 on all of that stuff. It wasn’t like I spent $40,000.00 and saved $21,000.00. The stores LITERALLY pay me to shop and take their products (not in cash, but in other products). July ALONE I got over $2000.00 worth of products for FREE and spent a measly $25.00 or so. Of that $2000.00 worth of free products, I got (and this is just a small portion), a $200.00 freezer, new weedeater, garden tools, $60.00 lantern, new tent, boots, food for the free freezer, garden hoses, plants, flowers, tons and tons of ammo for our guns, cat food, dog food, perfume, tons of HBA products and the list goes on and on. My husband says I am the REAL COUPON QUEEN. Last year I saved $13,000.00.

I have yet to read about ANYONE who shops and coupons like I do.
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Well in 2010 I saved around $40,000.00, while only spending at BEST $500.00 out of pocket. Most of the stuff I give away to local organizations and to people in general. I will even give stuff away at the check out line at Wal Mart or in their parking lot. People are DEFINITELY freaked out by that!