Extreme Cheapskates - new TV show

[Stacy]

Looks good. I'll have to catch it tonight.

[flowerseverywhere]

I never got the creepy sexual vibe from anything I have read of his. I am looking forward to the show and have told several others about it.

[JaneV2.0]

I'd love a series about thrift shopping (especially for fashion) and upcycling. This doesn't sound like what I'm looking for.

[Tiam]

Are they just doing like extreme frugal? I always thought cheapskate had more of a negative edge to it.

I think that's the only way to get ratings. It's like 'Hoarders' only vaguely positive, but still shows an OCD element to it.

[Mrs-M]

Weighing in with my verdict related to my first watching of the show as of this evening.

I was taken by the first couple who took in dogs and cats and cared for them, that was heartwarming, so I was able to look past the idiocracy of the husband asking restaurant goers for their leftovers and dumpster diving for special things for his wife.

Second couple/family did nothing for me. They have six kids, and paid off $89000 credit card debt in one year? And the Mrs, is complaining about the cost of toilet paper, picking/snipping weeds from the lawn of a public park to make salad, and buying up outdated food goods/products to feed her family?

Third couple, I was about done with watching the whole one hour performance by this time, and really wasn't absorbing much anymore, especially when the Mr, arrived home with two goats heads and made a meal out of the brains and eye balls.

[ljevtich]

Well, after reading Mrs-M's comments about the show, I will not be watching this. Shows like this are kind of useless. I believe Amy D had said something to a news reporter after the Parade article came out about her - something to the effect "so you want to watch me fold cloth diapers, or wash the dishes, or any one of the other tiny little chores that saves us money?" And their answer was no. They wanted BIG things, outrageous acts of saving money. That is what the TV show is - outrageous acts of people getting their 15 minutes of fame.

No thanks, I do not plan to watch.

Just wondering, do any of those folks make money from being on the show?

[Mrs-M]

To add, IMO, it's programs and shows like this that give simple/frugal living a bad name and remove the overall context of what SL'ing is all about.

[Mrs-M]

Ljevtich. I myself would gain far more enjoyment out of a reality series that actually profiled real SL families and people, the ones who really do actually practice true honest-to-goodness, simple/frugal living ways.

I actually gave thought to the second family (mother), and what she uses in the way of diapers for her children, because seeing that the show conveniently left that part out, I can only assume that the mother uses disposables, and boy would I ever love to hear her case in argument as to why she doesn't use cloth.

Pretty hard to build a case for water woes, when cloth wipes equate to much the same as washing diapers, and the cost of buying toilet paper pales in comparison to buying throwaway diapers every week/month.

But the show will be a hit IMO, strictly on the merits of the absurdity of the people they've chosen to be on the show, and the asinine things they'll do to garner attention.

[Mrs-M]

It's sad to think that this is the extent of what public programming has become.

[crunchycon]

I watched most of it, and I agree with Mrs-M - the nice story about the animal rescue really counterbalanced the guy dumpster diving for anniversary gifts and begging for food from other diners. The second couple - eh. And, of course, the TV editors emphasized the "ew-ness" of eating goats heads, because that's what all of us frugal folks do, y'know. The barterer could have been more interesting - I suspect there was more creativity involved than simply reciting "Jabberwocky" for a doughnut, but, again - - that's not "good television".