[mcmama]

Did anyone see wife swap last night? Except for the stuff about the frugal family's boys being in sports, I wanted to "clip" the spendie a good one. Good grief, no college fund but a tanning bed in her bedroom?

I really liked how they showed how the whole family gets involved in couponing and how it is an accomplishment and it does take work. And I almost fainted when the spendie wanted to shred the coupons. GOOD FOR GEORGE, the husband, for saving that precious notebook. That's months of work and an expense to recap.

I didn't like how they showed stockpiling. They portrayed it as something weird. I wish they had shown more of what was in her stockpile

[mrmnmom82]

Oh, I'm sad that I missed it.

[mcmama]

They don't have any videos up yet, but there is a discussion on the site here. I cannot believe how these people are dissing the coupon family. They are criticizing them for everything, like they are introverted geeks who just don't care about their kids. A few have said they are bad parents I don't think so. Also, lots of people seem to think having a stockpile is weird. Has anyone run into that mentality?

Bad parenting? Lets see....a tanning bed in the bedroom, an expensive SUV in the garage, but no family time and no college fund vs a couple of homebody geeks who clip coupons and spend a lot of time together at home and probably don't push their kids hard enough.....hmmmm.....which family is likely to remain intact or at least on track for building on what they have into the future?

[FlamingPanties]

The scenarios on that show are often so bizarre, I figure they're a put-on for the cameras. I saw it, and they were both so extreme it didn't seem real. Most people are somewhere in the middle.

[mrmnmom82]

There was a discussion about living simply by the woman who writes the Frugal Blog. Women were sharing how living more simply brought their family closer. Stuff won't make a family grow closer together, and I think familyis more important than if the kids get into a superior college.

[mcmama]

These folks didn't have a plan for college period. They were telling their sons to play lots of sports to get a scholarship. Serious pressure, very uncertain outcome.

They didn't have money for any kind of future at all. But they had expensive cars, gave lavish parties, and had a tanning bed in their bedroom.