i made the mistake of watching part of the crazy coupon show on TLC tonight. it really struck a nerve with me. on the surface, it is kind of cool. spending $6 on a $600 shopping spree takes obvious skill and is somewhat amazing. but what isn't amazing is when you get to see into these women's basements and there are 200 bags of assorted flavors of lays chips, 40 containers of deodorant, 50 packages of candy, etc.
the smiles and laughs and comments about how proud they were of their 'stockpiles' was disgusting. they aren't donating it to shelters, they aren't feeding hungry people. they're just showing that they can be super-consumers. it embarrasses me to think about how off track we are in this country sometimes.
i should note that i'm not claiming to be the model of anti-consumerism. i spent more than my fair share of hours this week shopping online for fabric for a new yoga mat bag. yoga mat bags are not high on the list of necessary objects.. but the point is that i don't have 40 yoga mat bags. teaching in taiwan and seeing kids come to school wearing the same outfit every single week because they had one set of play clothes really changed my mentality on buying millions of things i don't need. we can all do a lot more with less if we think about it.
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I agree completely. It's disgusting that these people have whole rooms stockpiled with stuff that they will never be able to use. Why don't they donate it? They're obviously ill--something akin to hoarders--and yet instead of getting them help people are using them for high ratings. Blech.
ReplyDeleteexactly. it'd be one thing if they were working for a food bank or nonprofit.. but just to hoard it is gross.
ReplyDeleteI wondered about that when I saw the previews. And here I'm trying to clear stuff out of my house. The sad thing is that most of the product they're hoarding will go bad before anyone can use it, but yeah for the company that produced it...not!
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