USA: too much

• too many things in the stores.  who knew there were a gazillion different yogurts and a dozen different ways and sizes to buy black olives?  but, cereal, i love you.
• too many coupons.  too many sales.  who has time to keep track of all that stuff?  yet they have to if they want to not pay really expensive prices.  and i guess it's not a bad marketing strategy for department stores like Kohl's to put out special coupons all the time because it keeps customers coming to the store to see if they can find anything they "need" to make use of the coupon.  sneaky.
  
• too much worry about politics?  i don't know about this one.  maybe i'm just not super interested in politics.  but people have such strong opinions about hot-topic issues and such strong opinions about their political party.  i don't think i agree that strongly about any particular view on an issue.  or maybe i just make my own view and it doesn't match any of the other ones that lots of people seem to cling to.  kind of like i didn't watch the harry potter movies because everyone else was.
  
• i spend too much money.  because i'm thinking, i won't be able to buy something like this again for at least one year, so i'd better buy it while i have the chance, and i won't spent *that* much money while i'm in china, so if it's a little more expensive, it's ok.  and then i proceed to buy 4 tubes of toothpaste, 6 bottles of mousse, 8 tank tops that actually fit me, etc.  ok, some of those are actually justified.  ish.  but i wonder if the cashier ever wonders why i'm buying 6 bottles of mousse. haha.