Obsessive shoppers

Moping around on the net can lead to some weird places. I found myself on a particularly famous money saving website, by some famous expert person. Click on a link and you find yourself in one place, follow another and you're somewhere completely different. I found myself on a message board about glitches in the system at Tesco. People were going crazy, doing their shopping for random things they didn't seem to need, and almost obsessively noting down all prices and watching them as they go through the till, going "aha!" to the cashier when a price doesn't match. There was a whole board of people reporting these issues, because you get double the difference refunded to you if the price doesn't match the sticker on the shelf. Which is insane because people were buying items simply to get the difference back, regardless of whether or not they needed the item. It kind of makes me wonder if this is part of the reason why the "I'm in debt" board exists on this website. So you've got the people who are buying things because it makes them feel good, getting into debt. And you've got the people who are buying things to be able to save or get freebies, because that makes them feel good but then leads them to be in debt. I can just imagine that one poster, who saw a difference between the till price and shelf sticker of the Futurama DVDs of £3 and proceeded to "grab" several of them wading around in box sets. One post elsewhere on the site was about someone buying 6 large meals at McDonald's to get free glasses, and becoming angry when there were no glasses left for them. Just buy glasses if you need them. This is an important lesson to me. Quit buying things you don't need. Quit buying things to get free things. Quit trying to save money by buying things you wouldn't otherwise. Silly stuff.