Unfortunately though at least some of the presents that we receive or that we buy for ourselves, both in the lead up to, and after the Christmas rush, will probably never get a single use, or only a few uses before being relegated to the shed or the back of some cupboard.
This is especially a problem when it is our own money we have wasted on purchasing some little or even major gadget or other item, that does not get the use expected of it, when you were in the shop looking at it. We as gardeners are very guilty of these sorts of purchases, buying both big and little gardening gadgets that get little use after their initial enthusiasm. Most would admit to having gadget items stored away somewhere in the house or shed, or have given things away to others, or to charity stores.
Among mine include a gardeners kit where you have a set of different implements (Hoes and rakes etc) that can be screwed into either a long handle or a short handle. Just didn’t find that all the effort of changing implements worth it nor did it seem as strong as a single old implement that it was supposed to replace. So it has been relegated to the shed, while I still use all the tools it was touted to replace.
And this is not even just dealing with just gadget items though, this includes such things as clothing, toiletries, toys, decorator items, etc.
On a recent survey of women, it was estimated that they buy around 71 items of clothing a year & around 8 are never worn.
Though I wonder how many of the unworn items were purchased for the men in their lives….
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1 comments:
There are always shopping regrets no matter the time of year, it may a jumper or skirt, it may be bigger such as Ikea furniture or an argos plasma tv, no matter what we spend or choose someone can be less impressed than we are.
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