r/mildlyinfuriating • u/marcus_dobre_lover • 19h ago

I just wanted a hot dog Mom bought 150 lemons.

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She randomly comes back with a butt load of food items once in a while

Any lemon recipe suggestions

\she’s 44, for people asking her age\.

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u/bodtabs 19h ago

is she an extreme couponer?

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u/yetinugz614 19h ago

Do coupons come in lemon?

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u/princessPeachyK33n 19h ago

It’s their summer flavor

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u/LogicFeels474 RED 19h ago

The zesty flavour

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u/lukef31 11h ago

"Do coupons come in lemon?" is the best comment I've read today

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u/cherrylpk 19h ago

Or someone who goes to a food pantry or food drop?

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u/Sarcastic_Mama33 19h ago

Yeah this is my guess. Especially if it happens with random different foods.

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u/SpinzArt 17h ago

This is how my mom came home with a dozen New York steaks once

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u/gloomspell 16h ago

That’s how I came home with two cases of oranges once.

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u/viz90210 5h ago

Had food insecurity gotten so bad that food pantries are just handing out mass quantities of lemons?

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u/PolicyWonka 19h ago

Pretty sure extreme couponing functionally doesn’t exist anymore. Lots of coupons are only 1 valid per transaction and not applicable with other deals, etc, etc. now.

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u/mishma2005 18h ago

Yup. I am glad for the limits on items, tho. Once Lucky’s had a deal on Dungeness crabs with no limit and some shoppers had filled their entire carts with them. I had to fight two ladies just to get two for my husband and I. I asked the cashier WTH and she said “greedy”.

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u/traFyssuP 18h ago

I think people do it at dollar general still

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u/Kristal3615 9h ago

It was definitely going strong when I worked there from 2015-2017(It can be hard to get out of retail). We had to make a rule that you couldn't have a negative total because people were using coupons on items from the dollar aisle. I think one of the big ones was $1 boxes of dog food with a $5 off coupon iirc... My manager actually hid some in the back for herself because these couponers would snatch up everything on the shelf and she wanted to take advantage of the coupons too.

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u/Hamartithia_ 13h ago

My wife coupons for fun; she uses multiple apps such as Fetch and Isle. She basically gets reimbursed in gift cards through the apps once she buys enough crap. 

She mainly profits from using new snack products. You rarely get something you’d really want, like produce or meat.

There’s like a whole community for it on Instagram.

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u/Doctursea [+4] 14h ago

For small chain stores they are, but not for like "whole food" or Walmart

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u/Doogiemon 11h ago

It doesn't anymore.

A coworker got me into it like 20 years ago and we would go to Mejier before work and get like $200 in groceries for $10. All the stuff was just super random and I donated most of what I ended up getting to the women's shelter in town.

I stopped because 90% of what I got, I didn't want but it was free or negative which paid for my 10% of things.

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u/Alm8360NoScoPro 18h ago

Buy 1 get 300 free ??

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u/fluchtpunkt 4h ago

Buy 5! get 30 free.

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u/CompanyToiletGooner 12h ago

Buy 300 get one free

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u/Joe_Kangg 16h ago

I think someone tracked her down on the highway