While I was washing dishes this morning, I caught a show on the Discovery Channel........."Extreme Couponing".......which should have its name changed to "Insane Couponing".
In one segment, a woman spends over 10 hours a day rounding up coupons............even at minimum wage, that's $100+ a day she has to save to just break even. Her house is filled with bottles of dish soap..........how much dish soap does one use in a year?
Another segment showed this teenage girl who cut a deal with her parents, where every penny she saves by couponing is put towards a down-payment on a car. Sounds like a plan, until she drags her dad into the Piggly Wiggly, and fills a shopping cart with bottles of barbecue sauce.......then doesn't buy anything to put the BBQ sauce on. She spends over $650 on **bleep**, and saves $610 for her car.........but her folks will be eating Rice Krispies or macaroni and cheese meals, slathered with Kraft BBQ sauce for years.
If she'd had any sense at all, she would have found a car she liked, and arranged a deal with the salesman........TV ads constantly claim "cash back" or "rebates" on cars.........she would only have to find a $5000 rebate to fulfill her end of the bargain.
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