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I assume the soap is named after the ice cream cake, most people who don't live on the non-Facebook internet would think of that before the streamer.
Consoomers / Consoomer Culture - Because if it has a recogniseable brand on it, I’d buy it!
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It really depends on where you are. I personally can't drink my tap water because our well has so much mineral build-up (also I'm a rural poorfag so water quality varies). But if I go into the city, the tapwater is fine to drink. I think most people here don't like doing it because, like it's been said, if you flex drinking a brand like Fiji Water or VOSS or whatever, you assume people give a shit about what you consoom so you need to consoom the brand more.
You don't want to be that loser filling up a reusable waterbottle at the tap when you can hold a bottle of Fiji and show off that you spend your money buying the "cool" drink brand. It's like Starbucks/Apple Laptops and "broke" college girls. How is everyone supposed to know you're one of the cool kids if you can't flex a brand? I've legitimately seen people fill up those $45 Swell bottles WITH bottled water here. It's a very weird thing to witness.
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So, I said to myself that next year I needed to get a calculator for my computing studies since I’ll probably be needing it for my math work. I was looking at Texas Instruments calculators for them and I looked online to see which were the best ones.
Unsurprisingly, most of the good ones are very expensive to get. Some even range from $90 to $120+ dollars on places like Amazon, Best Buy, Wal-Mart, etc.
Then, I decided to mess around and half-jokingly ask if people are consooming calculators and low and behold…..
Only thing I can say is that this channel does somewhat have an interesting channel where he collects a lot of vintage material mainly to review, and sometimes show off.
Unsurprisingly, most of the good ones are very expensive to get. Some even range from $90 to $120+ dollars on places like Amazon, Best Buy, Wal-Mart, etc.
Then, I decided to mess around and half-jokingly ask if people are consooming calculators and low and behold…..
Only thing I can say is that this channel does somewhat have an interesting channel where he collects a lot of vintage material mainly to review, and sometimes show off.
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No thank you, I don't want any. Looks overwhelming.
You can definitely get dental florosis from well water, too.
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Not sure why I haven't read this thread before, it's great, but I have to backtrack a dozen pages or so to the YA book consoomers. I’m not involved in “booktok” or book social media aside from a couple Facebook groups, one of which is for YA fantasy. I’m not really into YA, but I poke around sometimes for more mature or “New Adult” recommendations. Can confirm the consoomerism is strong. Nobody uses libraries, they just joke/complain about spending too much or trying to pick and choose what to buy within their budget. They buy books they already have just for new cover art or to match the rest of the series, buy books solely based on the cover with no idea of the content, buy special fan-made dust jackets because they’re “prettier,” and show off their bookshelves overflowing with "pretty" YA books and Funko Pops (which I've always loathed, the hatred here for them fuels me.) Some recent gems I recall include someone who, if she wants to try a book series, buys every single book in it right off the bat, and a woman who apparently reads only bottom-barrel YA because she didn’t know what third person was. I’m not a book snob but I was stunned. Her edit came after a bunch of comments, which were mixed - some politely informing her what third person was, some mocking her, some agreeing with her. I screenshotted it, but had nowhere to post it until now!
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I only read books written in the second person perspective. Who wants to see my CYOA collection?
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Her IQ must be in the toilet for her to think Third Person is a "writing style". Part of the reason I despised reading the YA books I was recommended was because they were in First Person. Doesn't help that the writing is about as deep as My Immortal, but without any of the fun. But my hatred of the genre can be left for the YA thread, because more importantly, you gotta showcase that book consoomerism!
Book plushies. Because ????
I'm shocked they even set up shit around such a smashed box, but then you gotta flex ammirite?
Don't forget the most important thing about a book... is its coloured pages and pretty covers.
Every "bookstagram" post looks like this. A QOTD, a metric fuckton of hashtags, and an "aesthetic" picture of some crappy YA book. Every. Single. One.
It's actually quite sad to see bookshelf after bookshelf on instagram filled with nothing by Pretty YA cover books with the poster exclaiming they can't wait to read "so many books" and then they just post more pictures of them wasting money. These aren't investments. In fact, I'd say this is a complete money sink because there's no way all of those books are even worth the money they spent.
Unless they have absolute shite taste. Oh wait.
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I dilly dally in couponing and technically this is a hot topic that people get angry about. In very simple terms, couponing is trying to get the lowest price possible. The lowest price for an item happens every couple of months. So in theory, you want to buy as much as during that moment so you can last during those months you're waiting for the next time. This is called a "stockpile".
There are couponers that love to show off their stockpiles. They'll have dozens of detergent in every brand and every size. They'll have food that'll last them for years even though it'll expire in a few months.
And the crazy thing is that they'll keep buying more and more and adding to their stockpile. Even though they can't eat it all and even though it's just sitting there. No family can use that much detergent in a few months let alone a few years.
The money you have to put into this is also insane. To coupon you need to get coupons from your local newspaper inserts. If you want multiple items, you need to get multiple coupons. This either means two things: you buy multiple coupon inserts off a website or you buy specific coupons off a website.
There are some couponers that actually do stuff with their stockpiles such as donate items and food. Some of them sell their items at flea markets and such. But most of them just collect it. It's just consoomerism but with extra steps and a self asspat of "But it was so cheap, so I had to buy all of them". This is hoarding, plain and simple.
There are couponers that love to show off their stockpiles. They'll have dozens of detergent in every brand and every size. They'll have food that'll last them for years even though it'll expire in a few months.
And the crazy thing is that they'll keep buying more and more and adding to their stockpile. Even though they can't eat it all and even though it's just sitting there. No family can use that much detergent in a few months let alone a few years.
The money you have to put into this is also insane. To coupon you need to get coupons from your local newspaper inserts. If you want multiple items, you need to get multiple coupons. This either means two things: you buy multiple coupon inserts off a website or you buy specific coupons off a website.
There are some couponers that actually do stuff with their stockpiles such as donate items and food. Some of them sell their items at flea markets and such. But most of them just collect it. It's just consoomerism but with extra steps and a self asspat of "But it was so cheap, so I had to buy all of them". This is hoarding, plain and simple.
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As someone who bought a gaming chair, it doesn't feel any different from a regular office chair. I seriously regret purchasing it and it also takes up a lot of space in my room and I have to have it positioned in a way to not block the light out.
I only buy bottled water if I left my water bottle at home.
Why buy a bottle of water for £1+ when you ask for a refill for free.
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I can't begrudge couponers assuming they're actually going to use everything they buy. The only two times I get angry about couponing is when people either walk out of the store with a four digit sum worth of groceries and end up paying like five bucks for it, unless it's at Walmart or similar since those shitbags are federally backed so fuck 'em. Or when they're creating a line, if it's a busy day don't hold everyone else up. But ultimately building a well stocked and robust pantry is something that everyone should strive for and being a thrifty shopper isn't something I can hold against anyone in a general sense.
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They are not worth the money. Those are the type of books I read through Kindle Unlimited. I haven't read the books on that shelf, but I've read hundreds like them. They are good, as in enjoyable, and a fun way to spend a few hours (on average a book like those takes 4-6 hours for me, thus my KU sub), but ultimately forgettable and disposable. I have found a few worth reading again, but most of them are one and done. I would not spend money on them. The books I do spend money on are different.
I live to read, it's my favorite activity in the whole world. But collecting paper books for ~asthetic~ reasons is lame. Ebooks are better.
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But they ultimately can't. Look at all the food they have. Even if they stopped buying food and just ate all the food they had, it would still end up expiring. Look at all that cereal. Look at all that pasta. No one can eat all that food. This goes beyond a well stocked pantry. This is hoarding. They have rooms and multiple shelves dedicated to storing all the food and items they will never use.
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I agree with everything you have just said, and those people you posted are disgusting not just at being wasteful and foolish but also for the pride they show in being wasteful and foolish.
For me though I think that responsible couponing is possible and I encourage it with the caveat of "Only buy what you can use".
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Those shelves, those books, everything looks so... fake. Pictures like these bookshelves or the gaming setups from previous pages all give the same vibe, everything looks like it is arranged to look nice on a photo but never to be used, i mean look at all that shit, dozens of books that will likely never be read by their owner, you hardly get more wasteful than that.
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Me reading this thread has resulted in phantom of consoomerism caching up with me irl: a store I frequent is giving some kinda plastic doodad (like, a tiny lock?) with every...let's call it 15$ spent. They are few sets, randomised and sister asked me to get these if offered because there are Ice Age-themed ones.
I got mother. Fucking. WHISKAS* LOGO.
And cashier told me, as you can buy those separately, a woman grabbed entire box for about 80$ T_T
*cat food.
I got mother. Fucking. WHISKAS* LOGO.
And cashier told me, as you can buy those separately, a woman grabbed entire box for about 80$ T_T
*cat food.
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It's so weird to read about because I remember the library being the best place to pick up any YA novel since you wouldn't be out any money if it sucked and if you did end up liking it enough you could buy a copy for yourself without worrying you'd be wasting money. Most YA aren't worth reading a second time around besides those rare gems or specific authors, so I don't get how it's a flex to be blind buying a bunch of YA besides showing you hate money.
I'm guilty of this too but in my defence it's usually while browsing around used bookstores or thrift shops that I'll cave to an impulse buy based on a weird cover or back blurb. With book prices as they are right now it's hard to justify spending new cover price on a book just based on a neat cover. That said, have book covers for YA books gotten any better recently because I remember they were the absolute worst for the longest time.
The worst thing is being locked behind an avid couponer in line that is throwing a fit over a dollar or two difference because they can't read the fine print and will proceed to hold up the whole line as they wait for a manager to 'fix' the problem for them. Same level as the people that use those tiny coupons (take a roughly two dollar discount off an order) and spilt their single order into like 5 because they want to use all those stockpiled coupons or will purposefully split their order up to get those survey coupons that are randomized to happen every x number of receipts.
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When I worked at Dollar General, that was every Saturday. Dollar General offers a coupon on your receipt for 5 dollars off your purchase of $25.00 or more on Saturday of that week. Wasn't uncommon to be stuck behind the register my entire 5-6 hour shift those days. You'd get a lady, always a lady, and she'd spit her 200 dollar order through several transactions. Most Dollar Generals around here only have 2 registers, with only one of them being fully open at a time. You could just see the angry faces of the customers behind the couponer and just give them a shrugged look, as you had rung for the other cashier 5 minutes ago, but on their way up, they got stopped by 3 other customers and had to help them.
Most of the customers that did that were buying Amberlynn tier junk.
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The dollar stores are favorites of Amberlynn-style coonsoomers. Most of the stuff they sell is cheap crap. I can't imagine spending $200 there.
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The coupon situation is baffling but makes sense through the lense of hoarding for hoarding sake, they just want to have lots of something piled up and may be mentally not making the connection that buying something cheap on discount is still a waste of money if you don't need it or you are buying too much of it. Funkos are like that too, individually they are cheap as shit but funkocels will drop copious amount of money for the satisfaction of simply having a lot of them. One 100$ nice statue that actually looks good on a shelve or 10 funkos? Funkos because they are more things and more is better
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Decided to browse r/Collections for low hanging fruit
https://www.reddit.com/r/Collections/comments/qz965u/i_collect_vhs_and_dvd_copies_of_pearl_harbor/ - Several copies of the same DVD
https://www.reddit.com/r/Collection...nster_energy_collection_47_different_cans_in/ - Monster cans?
https://www.reddit.com/r/Collections/comments/qledjo/my_energy_drink_collection/ - Seriously what is it with the fucking energy drink cans
https://www.reddit.com/r/Collections/comments/qz965u/i_collect_vhs_and_dvd_copies_of_pearl_harbor/ - Several copies of the same DVD
https://www.reddit.com/r/Collection...nster_energy_collection_47_different_cans_in/ - Monster cans?
https://www.reddit.com/r/Collections/comments/qledjo/my_energy_drink_collection/ - Seriously what is it with the fucking energy drink cans