Continuing on with my rant against out-of-control consumerism, I somehow found myself watching a television show on TLC by the name of Extreme Couponing. A woman from Iowa purchased 2300 items for about $57 total. (I, on the other hand, usually spend $57 on about 12 items). She spends much of her time clipping coupons and visiting coupon sites for strategies from other extreme couponers. Now this woman seems like she is salt of the Earth. She is going to donate a lot of her freebies to local charities. I hate to be a curmudgeon but do food insecure individuals really need barbecue sauce and kitty food? I am thinking not.
Extreme couponing appears to me to be a form of hording (call me Dr. Jane, Psychologist Extraordinaire). Hording is nothing more than the excessive acquisition of material possessions. And isn't the acquisition of stuff a significant source of the environmental degradation around us?
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