Items the advertisers try to convince us are essential

Nimeth

Bitsy_Beans wrote: »

Dear me I remember when it was just a school disco and you wore your best outfit......now it's hiring limo's and the like :eek: What's the big deal? You're finishing school.......then perhaps heading on to college......then to Uni. So why the need for a big party, it's not as if your education is coming to an end <rollseyes>

I feel I must apologise for this, it seems to have followed me across the pond when I moved!:eek: Frankly I have to say I'm a little annoyed by this American style invasion (I left for a reason! But that doesn't mean I don't like American people - I do). Whatever happened to doing it the British way? If I could I'd return it all for a refund.:rotfl:

Doooford

BitterAndTwisted wrote: »

You are a person after my own heart: I cannot conceive of why some folk pay upwards of fifty pence a roll for printed, scented and embossed three-ply paper just for the lav.

Not sure if it's an advertiser's con or just a personal preference but I buy the cheapest I can get my hands on. It's in use for, oh, about thirty seconds at most and then chucked away so I don't want to pay much for it at all and don't understand why other people do. Must be a blind-spot.

I find it amazing that my dearest comes back with 18 rolls of soft toilet rolls and thinks she's done well to get them on a "deal" for £6.

It haunts me if I pay more than 20p a roll!

Eyeore

Oh how this thread has made me laugh, am in the office on my own tho so it's ok! I do have to admit to trying the v expense loo paper........I know, just wanted to find out the difference..........absolutely none so that will teach me!

Would echo everyone else's comments, particularly liked FatVonD comments on loo brushes - so true!

GreyQueen

Softstuff wrote: »

I have a waistline. I'm just a little irritated that my boobs have seen fit to droop down and join it :rotfl:

I confess that I have a packet of those disposable household wipes. In my defence I have a real bug phobia, and the ones that I squish here really do squish, so the wipes mean I take care of it all in one fell swoop and manage to keep my lunch where it belongs.

Air fresheners are my big bugbear, thanks to my mother. She has an obsession with the things. On my last visit to England I used her downstairs loo, and as I leaned over to flush and was squirted in the face by one of the automatic air fresheners.

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:he he.

I suppose I could exercise but even when I was younger and thinner there's such a short space between my lower ribs and the top of my pelvis I couldn't really "do" belts. Fortunately, the hips are big enough to stop things falling down.......:rotfl:

Softstuff, if I lived in Oz with the kind of bugs you get over there, I'd be in perpetual state of terror and encased in whole-body Marigolds, never mind using wipes to sort the blimmin' things.

Butterfly_Brain

JJust thought of another one - toothpaste adverts and there stupid pro argin formulas and the like, honestly who thought some of these names up !

There is a programme on channel 4 tonight at 10pm with David Walliams of Little Britain fame trying to decipher adverts - which is more or less what we are talking about on here, sure to be a laugh so I have it on reminder.

vivw_2

What really annoys me are the sofa shops that always have sales on which 'you must not miss' - or the ones where you don't start paying for the sofa until the badly made item is almost falling apart.
No , don't listen to the ads - there is no need to buy new furniture every few years - buy second hand and recover if necessary and you are more likely to get something well made

ceridwen

vivw wrote: »

What really annoys me are the sofa shops that always have sales on which 'you must not miss' - or the ones where you don't start paying for the sofa until the badly made item is almost falling apart.
No , don't listen to the ads - there is no need to buy new furniture every few years - buy second hand and recover if necessary and you are more likely to get something well made

Must admit that I would be wary of secondhand furniture these days - having read that "bugs" are multiplying again (eg bedbugs - not sure that beds would be the only furniture they would "travel" with.....??).

Did get myself a sofa recently (new one) for only £250 - which seems okay to date. It was needs must in my case though, however, as my tiny sitting room is too small for the vast majority of sofas (even 2 seater ones!!!)- so was very restricted as to what ones I could choose from and wasnt willing to pay much for one for a house I would like to move from anyways....so I wasnt willing to pay much for a sofa that wasnt my exact choice (ones of my exact choice come in at about £1,500...). At £250 - I won't be too unhappy if I subsequently pass it on to a good home with someone else..

.. blushes though - as I DID buy an armchair (of the type that fold-out into a bed if wanted) and was able to get exactly the one I want (regardless of the house I have) - and...errr....<cough> that cost about £1,000 (it had darn well better "last a lifetime" at that price.....).

Sassers

Butterfly_Brain wrote: »

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Anything that has a designer label........
Most of it is ugly and quadruple the price of something on the high street.

I really laughed when I read this - it's so true. I have a £1000 Mulberry handbag that's a ugly as sin, is under the bed and I kick it everytime I go to bed. I hate it and was given it by an ex, who should have known better. All his male friends had brought their girlfriends purses so he thought he'd buy me this huge 'kin ugly, unwearable `thing' to show off and make his mates feel inferior and so their other-halves would give them an earole bashing.
.It's honestly 10 on the fuggly scale - oh, so is the bag.

BitterAndTwisted

Now that we're OT and chatting about sofas I have to admit that I'M NOT AFRAID OF BEDBUGS travelling home in furniture. I once bid for and successfully won an ebay auction for a Sofa Workshop three-seater. It's the most beautiful (Chesterfield-style) and high-quality item I have ever had the pleasure of owning. Proper feather filled seat-cushions, removable and washable cover and the deepest seat I have ever seen. Oh, the comfort! It was only about two years old when I got it three or four years ago and still looks brand-new. The professional couple I acquired it from were replacing it with some fancy designer leather one and all for the price of £50 and a tenner to a pal for helping me shift it. I never, ever in a million years would be able to afford something like this new.

I'm another one who cannot conceive of why people would buy those DF$ ones on a "don't pay anything for a year and pay in installments for another three" deals. I KNOW they'll only be fit for the landfill about 20 minutes after they start paying for it.

BitterAndTwisted

Sassers wrote: »

I really laughed when I read this - it's so true. I have a £1000 Mulberry handbag that's as ugly as sin, is under the bed and I kick it every time I go to bed. I hate it and was given it by an ex, who should have known better. It's honestly 10 on the fuggly scale

Stop giving that ugly piece of junk valuable floor-space! Give it a clean and list it on ebay. I'd pay someone to take it off my hands if it meant that I didn't have to think of that ex every time I gave it a kick back under the bed.....