A mum-of-seven has revealed how she has a stockpile worth over £23,000 – and even has a padlocked room dedicated to sweet snacks.
Appearing on TLC's Extreme Couponing, April, who is 38 and from Pennsylvania, revealed how she leads a regiment of couponers.
"People call me the coupon General because I basically take care of a small troop of people," she says. "I tend to be a little militant."
The stay-at-home mum, who lives with husband Rick, is raising seven teenagers, meaning that couponing isn't just a hobby, it's a necessity.
And in less than a year-and-a-half, she's amassed an impressive stockpile worth more than £23,000 ($30,000).
"People who have not been in the basement before – usually their first words are 'oh my gosh,'" April says.
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Taking viewers on a tour, she begins: "Welcome to the bunker."
"I have everything set up like a grocery store so that I'm familiar because I'm there all the time."
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You have breakfast, condiments, canned goods, baked goods…and then my freezer. These are all pennies or dollars, or if not completely and totally free."
Over here I have bodywash and shampoos so everyone can always smell good."
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However, April is keen to make clear the difference between stockpilers and hoarders.
"Hoarders have dust on their stockpiles," she explains. "I do not have dust on my stockpile."
"I am a couponer, there is a fine line and dust is a dividing factor."
While April has 200 bottles of BBQ sauce, 500 bottles of pasta sauce and a two year supply of washing powder, the section she is most proud of is the one that she keeps under lock and key – which is known as they "cookie jar."
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"My cookie jar is too large to fit on a shelf, a counter…my cookie jar is an entire room," she says.
"Anything you could possibly want for that sweet, midnight snack – candies and chocolates, potato chips, lots of pop, is found in this room."
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