Going To Extremes

I just saw a preview for the upcoming series Extreme Couponing. The show aired last season and got fairly high reviews. People all over the country started to save coupons in the hopes of going to the supermarket, filling a cart with $700 worth of goods and only paying $1.28. There is only one thing wrong with this show. If you look closely into it, it is a show about hoarding and OCD. It is not a show about common sense and good shopping skills. One woman bought out all of the diapers a store had. The only problem was that she had no children. One woman's shopping cart was filled with 100 chocolate bars and 72 deodorants. Try to make a family dinner with those ingredients. If you look carefully into most of the extreme coupon shopping carts, they are buying products without any sense of their use. From a psychological point of view, these people are not just extreme couponers, they are just extreme people.