Coupons Gone Wild

Well this is not a news article, this is more like a phenomena that has become a way of life for some. My wonderful boyfriend turned me to this phenomena, so I thank him again. I'll give you a brief history of when the first coupon made its appearance, but I'm not going to give you any boring history lesson. In 1887 Coca-Cola company was created in Atlanta with one of the partners being Asa Candler, he was the man who was behind the first coupon. He had a new and ingenious way of marketing their product, so he created coupons for one free drink of their product Coca-Cola.

By 1913 Coca-Cola had redeemed 8.5 million tickets, but widespread use of coupons in US didn't start until 1909. During the depression in 1930, coupon use shot up dramatically. In 1940 big chain grocery stores began to use coupons to attract more customers away from the local markets.

Well there you have a brief history of coupons, but I should get back to the point of this blog. Now there is in a way this way of life or culture called "Extreme Couponing", they have even made a reality show called Extreme Couponing. Basically this is a show about people who collect coupons to purchase massive amounts of food, hygiene, beauty and other products. Those purchases might go over 1000$, yet with the help of coupons and sometimes some store card they only pay like 10$ of the 1000$.

Even to me this was quite a shock, how can these people do this. Well they just found a loophole in the system, which isn't bad. You might think, why am I doing a Idiocracy News blog about this. Well let me explain, because I do have a good reason.
Some of these extreme couponers are insane, they buy all the stuff and hoard it. You find they have shelves full of useless products, well useless for them. Like some own over 4000 diapers and doesn't have children, they just say they might get children. Also couples that don't have children buy massive amounts of anything they can get their hands on just cause its cheap or free. This is where my mind just goes to mush, why the fuck do these people buy so much. I know some of them might be those 2012 Mayan doomsday dickheads, they must get enough stock to survive. That is just insane I think, nobody has ever proven that this Mayan doomsday shit is even true. Others then again just hoard for no reason, just gather up and wank off while watching their stock.
Now on a more sane and smart light, some who have large families buy them to save up for their children's future. Others use this loophole to buy large amounts of stuff and then donate like 80% to 90% to charities, only keeping enough for themselves to survive.
I suppose there are so many reasons why some do this, but there are those who use this for their own idiotic selfish gains. If you'd ask me would I do this, I would say yes I would. Still I wouldn't buy in the amounts they do, I would only buy what I need and that's it. Also this extreme couponing phenomena mostly seems to be a American thing, maybe in Canada as well.

What do you think of this, comments are very welcome.