I am replacing my blender and my juicer. The new ones look nice and make me feel good, and probably they will also work nicer than those I had.Since making it to "comfortable" in my middle age, I have made it a habit of going for quality items with whatever I buy. They last a lot longer and give much more pleasure.
When I bought my juicer and blender though, I was new in the UK, and I just went accross the road to the omnipresent Curry's store and bought the best I could find.
In Denmark when you buy stuff, you get pretty good stuff. I was not aware that in the UK if you just do that, you get... well, crap. It doesn't work well and falls apart. After buying three fax machines in Currys, I don't shop there anymore, and since I don't have a car (I work from home), I suddenly realized that there is very little I can't buy online. So, bimbo, I just go to Amazon UK and read a few reviews.
"make sure that the product does only what I want it to do, and doesn't have millions of bells and whistles which I don't want."
ReplyDeleteYes. I love quality products like that. Like the Nisus Writer Express app for Macintosh.
Love the blog,Which part of Lancashire do you live in? I am from Oldham
ReplyDeleteNear Bolton.
ReplyDeleteThanks.
One question though : if you are quite pleased with what you already have, why pay more for better?
ReplyDeleteI once tried an electrical toothbrush for some time (a good brand). I disliked the feeling, and the principle. Felt like I brushed more satisfyingly by hand.
Progress is fine, provided it remains a choice. The Amish, who live without technology, make a free lifestyle choice. But the Amish children don't...
I think that, once more, I'm starting a forest-fire debate that strays from the original post's idea. But in the end, it's often enriching. And the blogmeister has yet to complain! ;-)
I've now amended the sentence near the start, if it seemed like I was satisfied with the old ones.
ReplyDeleteThe pulsar is used like a regular toothbrush, but the handle and the head is much better, and the pulses add something.
I don't know about the ego (although mine feels rather content). But I believe we are talking about the human consumer here. Granted, it remains to be proven these are not one and the same
ReplyDeleteHuh???
ReplyDeleteHaven't you heard that old advertizing principle : "Aim for the ego"? ;-)
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