They spent a few minutes choosing a discounted dvd after she was not allowed by him to have the kind of bread she would have preferred to eat. ( Healthy bread too mind you... not junk like candy or whatever.)  So I don't think it was a financial issue... and not a waste issue.  It was a controlling issue.

 

The topic of waste is almost as hot and dangerous a topic to discuss as religion and politics.   I grew up with my daddy giving me the strong impression that I was only allowed to have 'what I needed'.   Anytime I asked him about shoes or clothes or anything else ... it was always the same reply.. 'if you need it'.  The idea of getting something for the fun of it, or just because I liked or wanted it was foreign to my brain until I was well into my adult years.  I literally did not know how to think along those terms.   I learned it from watching my kids.   It was from them I learned the simple joy of wanting something just because you like, and getting it.