I haven’t seen the new TLC show “Extreme Couponing” and I don’t plan on it. Still, I think, after reading an article about it and listening to general hearsay, I’m totally in a position to judge.
These people are worse—or at least just as bad—as hoarders!
I cannot relate to them AT ALL. Here are some examples I’ve read about:
One lady has a shower stall in her house filled with 450 rolls of toilet paper and 250 rolls of paper towels. Um, that’s great that you saved $22 on paper products but what happens when you need to take a shower?
Same lady bought 62 bottles of mustard. Her husband told her that he doesn’t even like mustard! So if you go through a bottle a month (which is unlikely), it would take more than FIVE years to ever eat all that mustard.
Another lady said she has so much stuff in her house that it’s like a storage shed. “I feel like the walls are closing in on me.” All for a bargain? Is it worth it?
And then there’s the TIME they spend preparing to go to the grocery store—FIVE hours, claims one lady. And in the meantime her kids are probably zombies playing video games, or better yet, tearing up all the toilet paper in that shower stall!
Then they’re excited because a $2,000 bill was only $100. Yes, that would be good news if you ACTUALLY NEEDED 90% OF THE STUFF IN YOUR CART. Oh, silly me. They don’t just use one cart. I’m sure they take up the aisles with at least two or three.
TLC execs say their stars have “figured out how to beat the system.”
That’s good news for the couponers. When they end up locked up in the insane asylum, they’re going to need skills to “beat the system.”
4 comments:
HAHA! I think you hit the nail on the head (as usual) with all these observations!
Tears rolling down my face...laughing so hard!
I earned coupons at Target today and I just threw them away, didn't even look at them. I am extreme non-couponing, just to spite them!
Kramer went to a big-box store and saved a lot of money buying huge quantities of Beefarino. He ended up feeding most of it to a horse (with bad results). Like you say, some bargains, with or without coupons, are not worth it.
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