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Falling for stupid shite online when you know better

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KitchenDancefloor · 09/02/2026 20:02

I’m such a sucker for sales videos of handbags and my algorithm knows it.

oooh look at how much it fits! Look a special pocket for keys! And a secret slip pocket!
This one fits on Ryanair and gets a weekend’s clothes inside!

every time it’s as though the concept of bags being made to carry stuff is new to me. And yet I watch transfixed as an immaculately manicured model places colour coordinated objects in a handbag.

What pointless shite do you get drawn into every time?

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Namechangeyname · 09/02/2026 20:05

Haha! Yes me too re. bags. Also productivity systems that promise to turn me into a fully functioning human being. Bought loads. Still a loser!

KitchenDancefloor · 09/02/2026 20:38

Yes. This next journal / planner / app will definitely change my life. 🤦‍♀️

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DiscoDuck40 · 09/02/2026 20:42

Shoes and boots - I buy a few pairs every month and rarely wear the ones I have. I think I may have a problem.

Sameoldsameold78 · 09/02/2026 20:46

I have some beautiful notepads and planners that I never use yet I would still buy more

Sidebeforeself · 09/02/2026 20:50

Books…all those women with piles of pretty hardbacks telling me ‘this book will have you gripped”.They are always shite

KitchenDancefloor · 09/02/2026 22:37

This mascara will make your life infinitely better and if you are using a different one you are living in the past and may as well be rubbing coal cinders on your eyelashes.

oh no silly me. It’s just a tube of black gloop like every other one I have owned.

how many times have I been duped by someone brushing on a mascara and then staring in amazement that one eye looks like it has no make up and the other one does? Truly groundbreaking.

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smallglassbottle · 10/02/2026 00:30

I keep seeing dresses I like, but I am canny with money and too mean to order anything as I know it'll be a Chinese scam and I hate wasting money. Some of them are so nice though.

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