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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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Zaphodsotherhead · 09/04/2020 13:13

It sounds as though the money might have been better spent on therapy for her anxiety.

Or getting rid of the mice.

Feetupteashot · 09/04/2020 13:13

Jaffa cakes don't go off surely? Is it a wig? Looks made up

huglessduglas · 09/04/2020 13:14

It said she was throwing away the pickled onions etc as she bought stuff they didn’t normally eat but thought she should buy them- she can’t give them away so binning them
Could donate to a food bank but sure sling them in the bin
#covidiot

Mummyoflittledragon · 09/04/2020 13:15

She sounds anxious. Perhaps mentally ill if she’s throwing away dried / cupboard food. And why would she buy more food than will fit in the fridge / freezer? Forward planning would have been better, eg buying a small chest freezer.

slipperywhensparticus · 09/04/2020 13:20

Considering she refused her 15 year old as a child who needs to go shopping with her I'm saying mental health issues and the sun should be ashamed of themselves

rjebgf · 09/04/2020 13:23

She's on her own, frightened of her kids going hungry. I don't think she needs haters.

FreakStar · 09/04/2020 13:25

The whole piece has the whiff of bollocks about it!

From the non-perishables that she claims to have gone off in 3 weeks, to the dodgy wig (I suspect it's someone else in disguise), to the bit about I though I saw a mouse take a bite out of a biscuit Grin

As for £250 being a whopping amount- ? Not really if you were doing a big shop and wanting to stock up!

I think the Sun need to try harder if they expect people to believe this story is genuine.

Teana89 · 09/04/2020 13:26

The S*n continues their high quality I see.

florisandyoris · 09/04/2020 13:26

It’s a distraction. Create a waynetta slob type protagonist so people will abuse her instead of ask wtf is going on with this govt response to the virus.

Also wouldn’t be the first time a Sun journalist made up a story or used a mentally ill person for page fodder.

MT2017 · 09/04/2020 13:27

She's been utterly shafted, and she and her kids - who are both named - are going to get shit loads of abuse. Her words have been taken out of context (ie in the title) and I bet she is absolutely horrified at how she has been portrayed.

I feel sorry for them.

morecoffeerequired · 09/04/2020 13:27

Just goes to show you can't argue with stupid.

MT2017 · 09/04/2020 13:28

And this is why, when a "researcher" says they've seen your post and want to talk to you, you tell them to fuck off.

suggestionsplease1 · 09/04/2020 13:29

I think the Sun should have had a duty of care to this person, who could be vulnerable, and I don't know that it is right they published this story. I think they're remiss in the same way that Jeremy Kyle show was remiss. She might face a substantial backlash because of this.

Umnoway · 09/04/2020 13:30

She’s clearly suffering from anxiety and possibly other MH issues. There’s no way any of this is normal. She threw perfectly good biscuits away because she ‘thought she saw a mouse bite’ in one. I bet a bit had crumbled off as they do in most biscuit packets. Throwing the bog roll away because it got a bit damp is ludicrous too.

Clearly has extensive issues and the shitrag sun took advantage, what’s new.

AnnUumellemahaye · 09/04/2020 13:31

Well she was a complete idiot to buy more fresh produce than she could use up in time, and more meat etc than she had freezer space for, but why on earth is she throwing away packets of biscuits and unopened jars of sauce? Hmm

I imagine she journo made up that little pile just for the photograph and the poor woman was too stupid to see she was being set up.

blacksax · 09/04/2020 13:32

She's not a stockpiler, she's a panic buyer.

How did the Sun get hold of the story, I wonder...?

AnnUumellemahaye · 09/04/2020 13:33

Unwanted jaffa cakes? How can they be unwanted? You either like them or you don't, in which case don't buy them.

And TWO jars of pickled onions even though she doesn't usually buy them? Confused

FreakStar · 09/04/2020 13:34

I've spent almost £200 a week at Ocado since the lockdown kicked off- partly because we are at home for every single meal, snack, drink, rather than being at school or work or eating out for some meals. Also buying a few toiletries, beer, wine, cleaning stuff and toilet rolls extra- (using more because we are in all day every day so more needed rather than stockpiling) Also, they have massively put prices up and removed all offers! I'm buying a little extra to keep make sure we have stocks of pasta, flour rice and basics so we don't get caught short if they run out, but nothing excessive. Haven't wasted anything in this house though!

Previous to Corona my weekly shopping was around £130

GreenTulips · 09/04/2020 13:35

She’s throwing out soy sauce, jars of pickles, packets of cheddar biscuits, unopened tins

They don’t normally eat them, so are of no use.

I think shes confused and got wrapped up in the panic buying frenzy.

Normal people buy standard cupboard items you use and know will keep. Or freezer food you have room for. She got carried away in a literal panic!

Sad but I bet she wasn’t the only one.

AnnUumellemahaye · 09/04/2020 13:35

And this is why, when a "researcher" says they've seen your post and want to talk to you, you tell them to fuck off.

Absolutely. The same as 'would you like to take part in our fly on the wall documentary/Come dine with me/anything else we will edit the fuck out of to make you look like a twat?'

Anoisagusaris · 09/04/2020 13:35

If you read the article properly she isn’t throwing everything out because it has gone off. Some of it is stuff she wouldn’t normally buy and the kids wouldn’t eat it.

She really sounds like she has mental health issues.

Dieu · 09/04/2020 13:37

I'm guessing she won't be the brightest.

MrMeSeeks · 09/04/2020 13:38

This is why shops have put limits On items Hmm

Mypathtriedtokillme · 09/04/2020 13:42

Really it looks like she emptied the contents of her fridge onto her lawn then look some happy snaps, put all the shit back after and sold a shit story for a bit if cash

Kraejka · 09/04/2020 13:44

Sounds to me like she does have genuine mental health issues and started panicking when this all kicked off with Corona. She will have seen things on the news about others panic buying and thought she had to as well. She then went to the shop and panic bought anything in sight - possibly things which others were making a beeline for.
Then when she got home she realized she had no space for most of it, didn't know what to do with all the fruit and veg, found out her kids wouldn't eat the stuff she had bought so she was a bit stuck really.

Her anxiety increased and she became concerned that mice had been attracted by all the excess food and she did try to get rid of it to other people first and then felt she had no choice but to bin it.

She wasn't stockpiling stuff to then flog it on ebay like may did.
The Sun have exploited her with this article but actually it's given me a different perspective on some of the people who have been panic buying. With the media whipping up hysteria and all kinds of doomsday stories going on (especially on social media), it's little wonder that some people ended up in a spiral of anxiety and have reacted like this.

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