THE KINGS OF MAKE-DO, 3 YEARS ON | France 2 | la suite

Gaelle, Thibault and Moune revealed their schemes for smart consumption. With the beginning of the crisis, the French found more and more ideas for spending less: hunt for special offers, increase in testing products, practice the “home-made”. Three years later, have these adepts in make-do any new tricks? Gaelle, the  “Queen of free” is now initiating her children into her bright schemes. When they shop, the family targets only products that carry reductions. Thibault took us to the auction rooms during our last report. Since then, this young man has been rooting out more and more new tricks: consumer meetings, investigations as the “mystery customer”, etc. Thibault earns a proper wage, but for him why pay more when you can find schemes to make more. In this make-do “generation” some have pushed the idea of savings a very long way. Patrick is one of them: he feeds and clothes himself uniquely from “scavenging”, by rummaging in trashcans.  Between miserliness, life-style and the hunt for waste, this is the sequel to our kings of make-do.