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Stockpiler comes forward and admits food waste

89 replies

ChocolateDove · 09/04/2020 12:25

And yet she won't stop buying food.. Doesn't have much income coming in and is wasting savings on tons of food.

www.thesun.co.uk/fabulous/11347343/stockpiler-mum-bins-food-no-regret/

Why would you admit to that? Shock

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TimeAintNothing · 09/04/2020 12:31

For all The Sun are trying to paint her as some sort of malicious monster because they're a clickbait shit rag she doesn't come across that way. She comes across as someone anxious about her children, feeling overwhelmed by the current situation, and who has channeled those feelings into an unhealthy obsession (panic buying). She needs support, not a baying mob chanting "burn the witch".

PineappleDanish · 09/04/2020 12:31

Because she's terminally dim.

And the Sun have probably thrown £100 her way for the "exclusive".

whitedogpoo · 09/04/2020 12:32

I won’t read the s*n and I wouldn’t trust anything they print either. It’s likely to have been blown out of proportion

Nottherealslimshady · 09/04/2020 12:36

Those pictures are a bit dodgy. How have pickled onions gone bad in three weeks? I'm sure I've got a jar that's been going at least a year!

ChocolateDove · 09/04/2020 12:37

She's got pictures of the food she is throwing away. Cant deny that.

There has been bags of food found around here being thrown away, people just fly tipping. She isn't the only one, but why admit it? Now her neighbours know what she is doing. It's just stupid.

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TheReluctantCountess · 09/04/2020 12:37

Considering that much of the items pictured don’t need to be thrown away (such as pickled onions, and a jar of pesto), I’d take this article with a big pinch of salt.

ChocolateDove · 09/04/2020 12:39

@Nottherealslimshady

She said she threw away jaffa cakes too because it looked like a mouse had chewed the box. Guess she saw something in the jar she didn't like, or maybe they realised they didn't like them?

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swishthecat · 09/04/2020 12:39

Agree with PPs that this is probably a made up story. Why are things like bottles of soy sauce pictured as being thrown out?

emmathedilemma · 09/04/2020 12:43

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ParsnipToast · 09/04/2020 12:43

She sounds like she is struggling with anxiety over everything, the mouse nibbling stuff? That doesn’t sound like a regular response. I think The Sun are massively unreasonable to publish things like this.

Wavey123 · 09/04/2020 12:45

The S*n is full of shit

NoMorePoliticsPlease · 09/04/2020 12:46

Anxiety. and journalist abuse from the SUN

CeriseClementine · 09/04/2020 12:52

Totally irresponsible ‘reporting’ from the Sun. She ‘saw a mouse bite one’? She’s throwing out soy sauce, jars of pickles, packets of cheddar biscuits, unopened tins.

Mmm, if you say so.

If this is actually true she sounds like she needs some mental health support imo. Somethings not right and it’s either the reporting or her.

MongerTruffle · 09/04/2020 12:58

Don't stare into the Sun for too long or you'll go blind.

TeaSoakedDisasterMagnet · 09/04/2020 13:02

She sounds incredibly anxious.

Pelleas · 09/04/2020 13:02

Shame on the Sun for exploiting someone who is probably vulnerable. Not at all surprised, though, from a paper like that. The only good thing about the Sun is that it could come in handy during the present loo roll shortages.

MamaBearLockdown · 09/04/2020 13:02

People who are currently throwing away tins etc are not stockpiler, they are people on a spring clean role!

nothingcanhurtmewithmyeyesshut · 09/04/2020 13:05

She needs support, not a baying mob chanting "burn the witch".

Can't anyway. We're not allowed bonfires atm.

EmeraldShamrock · 09/04/2020 13:08

I hope they aren't the same gloves she is stocking the fridge with, she used for shopping too. Ambrosia rice, pesto, pickled onions last forever.
Really pathetic storyline.

HoffiCoffi13 · 09/04/2020 13:08

What a strange article. Weirdly written (or is that the Sun’s usual writing style?).
It sounds like she needs some help with her anxiety.

StealthPolarBear · 09/04/2020 13:10

Her toilet rolls got a bit damp, they would have dried.
Her children wouldn't eat tinned chick peas- there's a surprise

SharonasCorona · 09/04/2020 13:11

I feel really sorry for her Sad

We did no stockpiling, we were both too sick (suspected CV) and when DH did shop, shops had returned to sort of normal.

Trimalata · 09/04/2020 13:12

Yeah, that's their house style, very similar to Take a Break and other similar mag. They'll have taken about two sentences and twisted it into that article.

A friend of mine used to have a steady side hustle of such stories. In exchange for having a mildly embarrassing story about yourself in the mags, youd get about 250 quid. No one remembers after a week or so.

mochojoes · 09/04/2020 13:12

Is she wearing a wig?

Imstillskanking · 09/04/2020 13:12

They will have offered her some money for an interview and then manipulated what she has said.

It's the Sun. Please don't take it too seriously.

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