Brits waste billions on more tat

kabayiri

If us Brits buy tat, it's because the shops are chocca full of said 'tat'. How many radio control helicopters do we need for heaven's sake?

StevieJ

Apollo3 wrote: »

How so? Has the wife earmarked the rest!?

No I think I have a bit of Jock somewhere in my ancestry I did buy some half price kids clothes as well.

Davesnave

Going into a garden centre with DW yesterday and seeing the SALE! sign, I announced to her firmly, 'No tat!'

We left half an hour later with a 25kg sack of bird seed.

All very Bill Oddie, Kate Humble and all that, but the irony is that I will undoubtedly spend the second half of the year trying to keep the @~+&dy things off my vegetables and fruit.:o

That's where all those free CDs that fall out of newspapers and mags come in....:D

Pagg

Did you get any Os?

bo_drinker

Davesnave wrote: »

'No tat!'


All very Bill Oddie, Kate Humble and all that, but the irony is that I will undoubtedly spend the second half of the year trying to keep the @~+&dy things off my vegetables and fruit.:o

And the !!!!!! off the car

fc123

lemonjelly wrote: »

Running down all the stocks etc.:D

Though there are elements of, ahem, "reducing intake" so to speak;)

I thought that maybe you also had a pasta mountain.

Are you on a diet? Tomterm lost 6 stone this year.

Radiantsoul

bo_drinker wrote: »

An estimated £5bn will be spent in the new year sales, according to financial services provider Bright Grey – but a whopping £2m of this is likely to be spent on things we don’t really need.

Two million is a tiny proportion of five billion!

fc123

An estimated £5bn will be spent in the new year sales, according to financial services provider Bright Grey – but a whopping £2m of this is likely to be spent on things we don’t really need.

I design and manufacture (over here) products that are technically tat. Tat being defined as something that has no lifesaving need or use, is superfluous to neccessity and life? It's just a nice thing to own, pretty to look at?

The ££ I earn from selling my tat provide for my family and myself plus assist OH mother.
I get taxed fairly heavily on my tat too so I generate real ££££ for the Govt to spend on important things like hospitals and welfare for those who can't earn a living themselves. OK, so sometimes the Govt. doesn't spend my tat tax take as wisely as they should but I can't complain or they will punish me.

A small UK factory employs half a dozen people and they work hard creating my tat and the workers pay PAYE on the wages they earn and the factory owner provides for his family and so on. Likewise, the fabric suppliers, ticket maker, label maker (he based in Pembrokeshire).

Selling the tat also employs quite a few persons too so, all in all, it's quite important that I sell plenty of it...as much as I can to anyone who wants it.

A customer may purchase the tat and then, after one wearing, discard it and take it to the charity shop, who sell it alongside all the other graveyard tat and make a few ££££ for good causes .
The voluntary workers love to help part time in these places so they need as much discarded tat as possible.


So tat is not such a sin really. I do acknowledge the waste and environmental consequences but a tat fest is not always A Very Bad Thing.

SingleSue

I've bought in the sales....my wardrobe for the year.

Two pairs of trousers (one smart dress up in case I get lucky and invited out) and a pair of jeans from M&S.

£8 the lot!

trumpton

Our house is full of tat. All thanks to that flipping Grabbit board.