I can't believe the government is saying that it may try and scrap the amazing, life-saving, ingenious buy one get one free offers or BOGOF's to you and me.
Apparently it's to stop people from buying items they don't actually need. What? Do they think we're stupid? Haven't they heard of a freezer? If I buy anything that can be frozen on a BOGOF, like bead or meat for example, then I simply freeze the one I don't need to use until the next week. And more recently my sister and I have started to regularly shop in cut price supermarkwts like Netto, and split the price of the BOGOF items so we get one each for half the price. I've even been known to be in Asda or Tesco and phone my sister to ask if she wants any fruit or curry sause before I even contemplate the purchase. So tell me where's the waste there?
It's not as if we buy items we do not need just because we think we're getting something for free, people aren't stupid and more often than not common sense does prevail.
Why don't MPs realise that most of us take advantage of these cut-price deals as we're actually saving money. Like nearly everyone else in the country I am always on the look out for such offers especially with the escalating prices that we are all experiencing in our weekly shop- these deals are becoming increasingly important in our shopping budgets.
Government big-wigs have obviously forgotten what life is like in the real world, perhaps they just dish themselves out more expense claims for their second homes or a pay rise. Unfortunately we cannot do such a thing and if we get an extra portion of raspberries or 400 tea-bags for the price of 200, then it just helps ease the growing pain of living in this ridiculously high-taxing nation.

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