"What do you want to be when you grow up?"

Why do adults constantly ask teenagers, “What do you want to be when you grow up” or “What are you going to school for?” How the heck am I suppose to know! Yeah, I’m sure there are a lot of high schoolers out there that probably know exactly what they want to be; I’m not one of them. My dream job changes every few months.

When I was in elementary school, I wanted to be a singer like Britney Spears. I also used to think I could make an amazing president. Some days I’d want to be a lawyer, other days I’d want to be the next Ghandi and spread peace around the world. What can I say? I dreamed pretty big as a kid.

In my middle school years, I wanted to be a pastry chef. Plain and simple. I wanted to own my own bakery and make fabulous cakes and cookies. To this day, I still dream about being a pastry chef, but I feel like I could do better than that. I’ve also told my parents that in my one lifetime I want to be a chef, an astronaut, a marine biologist, a geologist, an archaeologist, a historian, and a teacher. There’s just so many choices.

Now that I’m in high school, I really think a lot about what I want to go to college for, and I think more realistically these days. Obviously, I want a good-paying career, but I also want something that I would love to do every day of my life. I’m not going to be one of those people that decide exactly what they want to be while they’re still young. I think having my options open is the best way to go. I can get my high school education, go into college with an undecided major, and just go wherever my interests take me. I like a lot of things and I’m interested in a lot of things; I just need to figure out what I like the best.

Extreme Couponing

Well, it’s just one of those days when there isn’t much to blog about. So, I’m going to blog about this show I’m currently watching called Extreme Couponing. It’s this new show on TLC about people who spend hours finding and cutting out coupons and then hours shopping at the store. “Americans throw away 57 billion dollars worth of coupons every year.” This was just said on the show because one extreme couponer is actually dumpster diving for coupons. Her husband said it’s like a drug and his wife keeps wanting more and more. She even has an eight pound binder full of coupons.
One woman spent six hours at the store to buy food and hygiene products that will last her and her husband for months. The total retail value of her purchase was about $1,200. She paid $51. These extreme couponers buy everything in bulk and have rooms in their homes to stock all their products. One woman has a wall full of toilet paper next to a couch full of pasta boxes. It’s pretty crazy.
Wow. One woman just went shopping at the grocery store and bought $636 dollars worth of food. Of course she had plenty of coupons with her, and her total cost was $2. Yeah, I said 2 dollars! You can’t even buy a box of mini muffins for $2, and she bought groceries for like a month.
I use coupons every once in a while, especially on like fast food because I always want it, and I never have the money for it. So those buy one get one free coupons are great. I think it’s pretty crazy how some of these people spend so much time couponing, but almost all of them say it’s a hobby just like scrapbooking but your saving money. That actually makes a lot of sense. It is a lot like scrapbooking except your saving hundreds of dollars. Sounds good to me. Maybe when I grow up, I’ll be an extreme couponer.