This past weekend, TLC had a marathon of their newer show Extreme Couponing.
Basically, puffy-haired women and a few obviously-gay-but-married-anyway men spend up to "35 hours per week" (!) clipping, organizing, and obsessing over coupons. Then, they head to the grocery to buy truck loads of crap they don't need but "stockpile" anyway because they're getting a great deal. You do not need 100 bottles of hand lotion. Ever.
"I bought $1000 worth" of stuff I don't need "for $12".
I was buying into the concept until I saw three of my pet peeves in one episode:
1) The word is pronounced "coupon" not "Qpon".
2) Fifty cents is written 50¢. If you write .50¢, you are saying 1/2 of a penny.
3) Your coupon books did not come "from God just in time to save [your] home". They came in the mail. Your mailman is not God. God is busy smiting people. He has no time for your petty hobby.
I can no longer watch this show.
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