Just call it what it is.

On my trip to the grocery store this evening, my extreme dislike of "extreme couponing" and "stockpiling" was realized.  As most of you know, I'm an avid coupon clipper.  I love clipping, saving money and getting the most for my money.  If I can get something for free or a few cents, I will do it!  I have been known to buy 6 taco kits at one time when I have NONE on hand, but REALLY...come on...all most of these "extreme coupon" and "stockpiling" people are hoarding.  Yes, I said it.  HOARDING. 

I pulled this image off google images.  My question is are you REALLY going to use that many marinades and salad dressings? They do have expiration dates you know. 
What I saw this evening was a nice, well dressed lady walking through the store with her coupon binder (I have one myself, not judging...yet...) and her two shopping carts (still not judging...).  As I kept passing her in the store, I became aware of WHAT she was putting in those shopping carts.  She cleaned the shelves of the following products:

• Mashed potatoes
• Canned tomatoes
• cake mix
• taco dinner kits (and I would have liked to have purchase a few of these)
• Fiber One yogurt (again, I was going after a few of these)
• EVERY Zatarain's box which had to have been at least 50 boxes
• Spray and Wash
• Hershey chocolates

When I say she cleaned the shelves, she took EVERY ONE IN STOCK ON THE SHELF.  I noticed just these things because I happened to be on the same aisle as she at the time she was RAKING the shelves clean.  No joke.  For the Zatarain's she took her arm and in two swoops cleaned the shelf.  There were many other items in her cart that were in mass quantities.  She was behind me in the checkout line and started to get her things in order.  She had at least 6 different transactions that I saw her splitting up before leaving and one of the shopping carts was still full.
Now I will say she MIGHT have been shopping for a food closet, or she might have 19 kids (but I know what Michelle Duggar looks like and she was NO Michelle) or she might live an hour away from a Publix (but in this area it is VERY doubtful as there are 4 stores in a 10 mile radius of my home).  But with this new trend, I am 95% sure she was stockpiling hoarding.

To prove my point, I looked up "Stockpile" in Merriam-Webster.  It says:

a : a reserve supply of something essential accumulated within a country for use during a shortage  

b : a gradually accumulated reserve of something

Um...does our country have a shortage?  Are these people gradually accumulating these groceries?  No and no. 

Then I looked up the definition of "Hoard" in Merriam-Webster.  It says:

a supply or fund stored up and often hidden away.

My point exactly. 

I do not understand the purpose of what these people are doing: people who need to rent a storage unit just for their groceries; people who turn their bonus rooms/extra bedrooms/garages into stockpile hoarding rooms; people who clean off grocery shelves and take every coupon in the coupon boxes.  Please feel free to explain this to me if I am off in my thinking.  If you are a stockpiler, then I hope I didn't offend you too much and maybe opened your eyes to what you are doing. To those just jumping in the coupon community, I hope proved my point.  Take just what you need for 6 weeks.  It does go on sale again.  The same coupons will run again.  Don't be a hoarder. Leave some for the rest of us.

It's been a while....

...but I'm catching up on everything in the next few days.  31 Days To Clean will start back this evening.  Things have finally slowed down a bit and I am going to try and not dilly-dally this week! Until my next post, I leave you with the coolest groom's cake EVER!