Rant number 3
It is impossible to turn on the television, open a newspaper/magazine, listen to the radio or walk down the street at the moment without some chuffer trying to sell you something, and I've had just about enough of it!
With Christmas just weeks ago. I - like so many persons all around the country, the globe & no doubt the whole frickin' galaxy - am feeling spent out, both mentally, figuratively and physically.
On Christmas eve when the whole thing is done, I would love it to all be over. For the bedlam of consumerism to evaporate - making way for Christmas spirit, family unity and all the other crap that the Christmas movies would have us believe.
Does that happen though?
Does it bollocks
After panic buying household goods, presents, food & drink - just because the shops will be shut for a single day (shock horror!)
Families venture out on Boxing day, not to wish well to the world like some kind of modern Ebenezer Scrooge or promenading Dickensian urchins - but to spend more money, in the promise of discounted goods.
That these are not things we needed or wanted until the discount appeared is of course never obvious until its to late. Cupboards full of unused and forlorn sandwich toasters and foot spas are testament to the power of the percentage!
Because that's what its all about isn't it?
50% off sets our pulses racing because none of us can resist a bargain.
That half of the goods are put on sale for gratuitously inflated prices and stocked up on - specifically to be sold at sale prices later is the trick of it all - you'd be surprised just how short an amount of time most products are sold at that oh so expensive 'was' price.
The whole thing gets on my wick, use holiday time with your love ones and remember - some poor sap has to be working for you to enjoy those magic prices.
Rant over.
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