Plagued Consoomers / Consoomer Culture - Because if it has a recogniseable brand on it, I’d buy it!

[Vingle]

You don't go to Walmart for luxury, you go there to get household items and food not to get Versace.

The quality has drastically gone downhill in recent years. It was bought up by Michael Kors in 2018. As everybody know, everything MK touches becomes horribly cheap, tacky and gaudy. Versace was always on the point to gaudy, but even people that doesn't like the style. Could say it didn't look cheap.

In 2019, they released 6 perfumes under the name from their most exclusive line Atelier Versace. A dress from it is always tailor-made and starting price is about 100k usd. So it's more of a line reserved for celebrities. Even though their dresses look bland and when they try something unique, it's horribly ugly.
Anyway. the perfumes were nothing unique and costs 300 usd for each 100ml.
Worth mentioning, is that they had debt and sold their perfume department or something to someone (haven't bothered to look into it that much). Which is intriguing, because Versace doesn't have many fragrances. They have 3 fragrances that are mainstream, so yea. Anyway, they are milking the fuck out of Eros. Because last year, it was released an Eau de Parfum for it. The parfum was released about 2 months ago. Of course did they water down the Eau de Toilette-version of it, gotta force people to buy the more expensive bottle.

I'm pretty sure they sell underwear at places like Walmart. The only things normies tend to have from Versace, is the darn underwear, bathrobe, or a perfume. I cringe hard when I see people flex that they have 50 usd underwear, made of cotton. Try their silk boxers of real silk to 400 usd, and silk dressing gown to 1300 usd. Since the fucking bathrobes to 300 usd are being used to flex too.

Even Jeffree Star and Trisha Paytas have the fucking bathrobes, which was shown in one the clips shown in this thread.




Consooming of soaps, and there is a soap called Baked Alaska in there. The guy in the IP2-universe that got arrested for livestreaming the riot on Capitol Hill. Just found it funny they haven't removed it from stock.

 

[Pina Colada]

You can't even trust reviews from people like this because they can't possibly use the things enough to have an opinion on them. The guy in that video could use a different perfume every day and go months without repeating any, maybe close to a year. There's no way he knows what he likes beyond a handful that he uses all the time and the rest sit on the shelf gathering dust.

His house definitely stinks too.

Not to mention that everyone's skin and pheromones are different, and a given fragrance isn't going to smell the same on a group of women. Testers are a thing for a reason!

 

[Vingle]

Not to mention that everyone's skin and pheromones are different, and a given fragrance isn't going to smell the same on a group of women. Testers are a thing for a reason!

I see a lot of people just buying old fragrances for the nostalgia, but not even use it. Or just to complete the collection from that one brand.

It's bizarre, because fragrances was reserved for the rich. Everything goes to shit, when it becomes available for the commoners.

 

[Accept Only Substitutes]

One of the best things to do if you don't want to deal with gross tasting water is to buy a Britta filter (or similar) and if you know you'll be needing water when going out, just fill up a reusable metal water bottle from home to take with you. People might complain that the initial up front cost is too much, but it'll save you a bunch in the long run, along with not making a bunch of waste with all the plastic bottles you'll be throwing out drinking only bottled water.

That's what I did for decades. I had a large filter I'd fill up, except for the times when the lake was turning over and the Brita didn't cut it (according to 23andMe I taste bitter things more than average, my husband couldn't taste a difference but I could!).

The refillable cups is another Avenue for coonsooming too. There's tons of insulated mugs, most of which are crap if you like your water to stay ice cold. But coonsoomers don't care about quality, so they'd collect them all.

I find there's a weird subset of consoomers that can't bother to spend a little more money up front for things that'll make up the cost through it's longer usage, yet spend a bunch on crap that while cheaper won't last. They talk about it being 'cheap hacks' or similar typically, while also promoting things for 'aesthetic' over substances. Like the whole gaming chair or 'gaming' anything really that is usually just a worse thing of something else. I see people scoff at spending a bunch on a nice office/task chair in favor of buying a slick looking gamer chair, when in the long run that 'expensive' office chair is probably going to last much longer and be far more comfortable to sit in (while being less likely to fuck up your back/posture)

Most people don't realize that chairs are rated for a certain number of hours of use per day and a certain number of pounds. Most affordable chairs at Staples are rated for 2 hours a day. And I think 200 pounds. Maybe 250. Which means using them for longer periods of time or as a heavier person the chair will break faster, the cushioning will wear out faster, etc.

Those same people would probably also save a bunch of money if they just bought their own beans to grind at home in the morning, yet they probably never will because of bullshit reasons like "don't have enough time!" or "costs too much!" when both aren't true. You don't have to be a coffee snob that spends thousands on the right equipment, just buying a cheap grind and picking up a French press will be good enough to make a decent cup of coffee as long as you pick up decent beans. Bag of whole beans might be expensive but a single normal sized one can last a while depending on how much you drink a day, the actual cup you can just make during your morning routine while doing other things. With the extra cash you save you can probably pick up one of those fancy coffee makers the automates it more

Hell you'd probably even save money using a Keurig and that's literally just 1) select coffee pod 2) fill with water 3) place cup 4) hit the button levels of easy.

You don't even need whole beans to make decent coffee. Since decent is at the mouth of the drinker and all. Granted I haven't tried the really expensive coffee at my grocery store ($15-20 a pound) but I was using one brand that I liked that was about $7 a pound. I go through two pounds a month, and I have a small budget, so it added up. I found that the ground coffee at Aldi was just as good as that more expensive brand for half the price. I have used beans but I didn’t see much difference, personally. Perhaps because I use creamer in my coffee, I know that covers up a lot.

You just have to play with brands until you find one you like.

 

[Yeeted Teet]

Consooming of soaps, and there is a soap called Baked Alaska in there. The guy in the IP2-universe that got arrested for livestreaming the riot on Capitol Hill. Just found it funny they haven't removed it from stock.

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.

 

[whitepumpkin]

I heard somewhere that Canada has some of the most clean tap water in the world yet Canucks buy the most bottled water (not per capita, flat amount despite population). I hope that’s not really true, but after browsing this thread… who knows…

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.

 

[Jonah Hill poster]

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.

https://www.youtube.com/c/ErixCollectables/videos

 

[NoReturn]

Consooming of soaps, and there is a soap called Baked Alaska in there. The guy in the IP2-universe that got arrested for livestreaming the riot on Capitol Hill. Just found it funny they haven't removed it from stock.

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.

No thank you, I don't want any. Looks overwhelming.

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).

You can definitely get dental florosis from well water, too.

 

[furbyknife]

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!

 

[proteus4994]

I only read books written in the second person perspective. Who wants to see my CYOA collection?

 

[whitepumpkin]

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!

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!

Spoiler: Consoom, pigs, consoom!

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.

 

[Kung Pow Cream]

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.

 

[Kuchipatchi]

see people scoff at spending a bunch on a nice office/task chair in favor of buying a slick looking gamer chair, when in the long run that 'expensive' office chair is probably going to last much longer and be far more comfortable to sit in (while being less likely

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.

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.

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.

 

[Sleazy Car Salesman]

I dilly dally in couponing and technically this is a hot topic that people get angry about.

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.

 

[Accept Only Substitutes]

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!

Spoiler: Consoom, pigs, consoom!

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Book plushies. Because ????

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I'm shocked they even set up shit around such a smashed box, but then you gotta flex ammirite?

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Don't forget the most important thing about a book... is its coloured pages and pretty covers.

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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.

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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.

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.

 

[Kung Pow Cream]

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.

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.

 

[Sleazy Car Salesman]

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.

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".

 

[Neet Tokusatsu]

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!

Spoiler: Consoom, pigs, consoom!

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Book plushies. Because ????

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I'm shocked they even set up shit around such a smashed box, but then you gotta flex ammirite?

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Don't forget the most important thing about a book... is its coloured pages and pretty covers.

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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.

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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.

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.

 

[UnsufficentBoobage]

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.

 

[Moguro Fukuzou]

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 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.)

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.

[...] buy books solely based on the cover with no idea of the content

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.

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.

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.