Holy crap, it's been a LONG time since I've written something on here! That is SO odd considering something irritates me on a daily basis, guess I got a little too busy with other things to share my annoyances with the world! So what's on my mind today? Read and you shall find out!
Just about everyone has heard about the Extreme Couponing show that has taken over the world, literally! Pretty sure most people have heard about the Krazy Coupon Lady too...she's frickin nuts! Recently, I have taken up couponing....go ahead, laugh it up! My husband would say I've turned into one of the crazy bitches on tv but believe me, I'm far from it! I like to save money, who doesn't? Especially on things you regularly buy...why not save some money doing it? Excuse me for being happy that today I bought 648 baby wipes for $5.97, super deal! In case you can't do the math, that is $0.009 per wipe!! Me saving money on various things is not what has me annoyed though, for more than obvious reasons.
Have you ever gone to the store, whether it be the drug store, Walmart, Target, the grocery store, etc for something and they are all out only to find out they had some insane coupon deal and those wicked crazy bitches cleared the shelves? I will NEVER be one of those people, not even close! They piss me off so bad! Last week, I went into Walgreens for something, it was about 9:30am and the shelves were completely wiped out! I was like WTF?? Come to find out, there are some extreme coupon crazys in that neighborhood and they were there, bright and early cleaning house! Ok, well apparently you guys need that stuff way more than I do if you need to buy 100 tubes of toothpaste at once! (Before my husband says something, yes I do have 5 tubes unopened upstairs)
I can understand stocking up on food that won't go bad for a while, like canned goods and having a little stash of toiletries like toilet paper, body wash, razors, toothpaste, etc but seriously, draw the damn line somewhere! When people need a spare bedroom strictly for their "stash" it's time to bring on an intervention! Even still, cleared shelves and rude crazy bitches in the stores aren't even what I'm irritated about! I belong to an online baby board, I joined it when I was pregnant mainly to kill time and talk to hundreds of other pregnant ladies that were feeling just as miserable as I was. Turns out, I met a small group of fabulous ladies that I should be going to Vegas with in 6 days but nope...that's another vent! Anyway, complete sidebar there...oh well....on this baby board are other groups. Pretty much a group for everything from dealing with in laws to trying to conceive to military spouses to coupons! Out of curiosity and entertainment purposes I joined one of the coupon groups.
I read the posts pretty much everyday. Most of the time I just laugh about people doing stupid shit and being completely ridiculous...again, why do you need 100 tubes of toothpaste and then bitch that the store didn't have enough? Well today I read a post that pretty much inflamed my blogging blood...and here I am now! Apparently, some of these extremely crazy coupon bitches that are clearing shelves are having garage sales, selling the things that they have scored for free or next to nothing by couponing. Excuse me for saying this but instead of spending all of your time plotting your ambush on different stores, writing blogs and keeping up websites to gloat on your savings and stalking the stores to raid the newspapers for more coupons, couldn't you get off your ass, get a job and be a true asset to society??
I was completely shocked to find out that these couponing garage sales are quite common. They literally go from store to store, collecting shit and sell it to make a profit. Example: they go to Walgreens, have coupons to get say a $10 razor for $2, they then turn around and sell these at their garage sales for $4-7 per razor, making a profit of $2-5 per razor and these people are clearing the shelves scoring 30-50 items PER STORE! Is it just me that thinks this is completely wrong? Yes, it's smart money making but seriously, it seems like it should be illegal. Never in my wildest dreams (and I've been having some pretty whacked out ones lately) would I ever imagine doing this. It makes me sick actually. I definitely forsee the coupon world changing drastically in the near future because there is a difference between saving money, being thrifty and second hand stealing from manufactures and stores.
