This is the sad evidence!As a rule I never buy anything branded, especially not for the kids, the only exception is Peppa Pig which my older son adores, so how come I found myself at home after a shopping excursion with all this stuff? Plastic as well...
It all sort of escalates... I was shopping for cutlery for the kids to go in the caravan, my son spotted a dinosaur (his other obsession) so we had to get toy story cutlery, of course the stepchildren will want the same but one is a girl so what would she like? Oh she likes hello kitty so there goes cutlery for her as well. Now let me think... the older kids have their own plates and cups but my little one doesn't so it makes sense to get him matching toy story ones... but then I know what's going to happen: the others will see the new plates and get upset that they don't have new ones... and so on...
It seems like a silly thing but it bothers me, how did someone like me who believes in all things natural end up with a load of branded plastic, I can't really blame it on the kids, they looked at them and promptly complained that they wanted the sippy cup as well, so making them happy by buying stuff is clearly impossible. Why did I even try? If I'd bought a set of bamboo plates it wouldn't have made any difference to them. I guess that being born and living in a consumer-driven society is more entrapping than I thought. Am I exaggerating?
millions of ponds are invested by companies each year to try and get as much cash out of us as possible; how to avoid this, go shopping without money, that way they cant get it, if you cant do that, use cash only, your be surprised how little money you spend. I think the problem comes from debit/credit cards, you feel like its not money your spending!
ReplyDeleteThat's true! It's also the price of these things that fools you: I thought to myself: well it's only ten pounds, the kids will be happy! But ten pounds is a lot of money to someone else, I was bought down a peg or two today when the lady who helps me clean the house asked if she could take home an open packet of nappies that I was throwing away as they are too small.
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