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Anonymous wrote:I totally agree with you, OP. Extreme couponing is just another case of hoarding and a shopping addiction rolled together. A few things bother me about extreme couponing. First, who needs a 30 year supply of deoderant? Second, coupons are for processed foods usually, which is totally unheathly for people. So not only are the ladies cheating the store and fellow shoppers BUT they also are likely to run up huge medical bills, due to the ramifications of their sh*tastic diet, that cost our society. They should focus on eating healthy not trying to get a can of discontinued salt..eer I mean soup (well really chicken flavored salt). There are much healthier ways to reduce your grocery bill AND still eat nutritious foods, but I guess it lacks the thrill of getting 250 bottles of shampoo for nothing.
I am the poster who purchased the soup. I bought the soup at the request of my husband because that's what he likes to eat for lunch and he brings it to work and leaves it in a cupboard there. I am not crazy about him eating it everyday but if I don't pack soup for his lunch he goes out to Mcdonald's. He focuses on things being cheap not how crappy it is for him. He gave me a hard time once because I picked up sushi for a quick lunch when the dollar menu at McDonald's would have been more economical. As far as his food choices, they are not what I feed myself or my children.
I get a box of organic produce every week delivered to my door by the Washington Green Grocer and base our weekly meals off of that box of produce. I use coupons for additional items I will use. Yes, some of them are for processed foods but not the majority of them. I have coupons for lactose free milk, organic coffee creamer, Tylenol, Motrin, vitamins, laundry detergent, diapers, roasted nuts, hair dye, body wash, make-up, razors and lots of other things I tend to use. Sure, I used over 50 coupons the other day, but it wasn't for things I was hoarding, wouldn't use, or to fuel my craptastic diet. It's not like I am out getting all the free ramen noodles I could get my hands on. Yes, I cleared that shelf of soup, that was incidentally low sodium, but that was the first shelf I had ever cleared and probably will ever clear. I won't have a room dedicated to "my stockpile" but I do have a pantry that is stocked with things like coffee, laundry detergent and zip-lock bags.