What I think we sometimes forget is that kids aren't the only ones having to deal with pressures from society. Sure, for years I've known from magazines and TV that I'm not thin enough, tall enough, blonde enough or buffed enough.
But just a couple of years ago I learned that another part of me wasn't up to snuff. Turns out I had sucky eyelashes. Luckily Brooke Shields let me know I could paint a product on my eyelids and after a few months, no longer embarrass myself. How could I be living my life all these years with inadequate lashes?
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And more recently, I was lucky enough to learn despite doing it my entire adult life, I actually have no idea how to buy toothpaste, pasta, soda or anything else sold in a grocery store.
According the extreme couponers of the world I'm a complete flunkee. I do not spend each week collecting dozens of newspapers and searching online sites for coupons. I do not clip, organize or arrange them by the hundreds in plastic divider-lined binders. I do not shop with several family members and use multiple carts. It does not take me many hours to check out and I do not have a separate room in my house for my stockpile. Yes, they all call it a stockpile.
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I'm the fool who thinks buying my toilet paper at Costco is being thrifty. But from the looks of it, I now know I have no business setting foot inside a supermarket, big box store or the like without further training.
All joking aside, I cannot believe that I actually feel a little badly about this one. Unlike other pressures, this actually seems like something I could do. I don't want to, but I should be capable, right?
So now, each and every time when I mumble to the cashier that I don't have any coupons, I hang my head in shame. A shame that is only trumped by the fact that I forgot my own reusable grocery bags. Again.
