To be sick of people on FB selling old shite in the name of handcrafted "gifts"

[MrsCantSayAnything]

Is it just me or is everyone trying to become the next Cath bloody Kidston or Martha Stewart?

MULTIPLE people on my FB seem to be flogging their old tat that they've knocked up whilst on maternity leave or during their lunch breaks!

One friend is selling "Fabulous teacup gift sets" which consist of a charity shop teacup and saucer, filled with Ferero Rocher and wrapped in clear plastic for a tenner!

Another does "Adorable Baby hair bands for your little princess" consisting of a fabric flower tacked onto a pound-shop hairband....6 quid thank you very much!

I've seen multiple badly painted wooden letters (un-sanded) with little bows and shit stuck on "£3 per letter" if you please.

Like people can't make this stuff themselves!?

Really? I'm ALL for selling crafts but have these people no shame? Or no judgement? Or am I a caaah?

Erm 'and' not abduction.

Totally agree! I've got several friends that have started selling stuff through FB - a couple do actually do some nice bits but the others? Well my DD could do better and she's only ten!

There's a woman on our local farcebook selling pages trying to flog personalised lunch boxes and such. Yes. Personalised by using a child's glitter glue pen and writing the name of a child in any available space on the lunchbox. Looks shocking. I wonder if she has ever sold any of them but am refusing to ask in case she thinks I want one!

Oh, and the crocheted granny squares, blinged up with cheap ribbon and nasty plastic 'crystal' dummy charms. They're really special.

This is all very titillating!
Tat!
I got off FB as its just a load of adverts and 'Bobs watching this' or 'Sally follows the other'. Spent my days trawling to find one thing interesting. Pointless. And this 'friend' started selling her baby clothes. We have eBay for that.
So now I spent my time trawling MUMSNET and twitter!
No tat!

There's loads of people on Moneysavingexpert doing stuff like this.

forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.php?t=2766466

They're also very fond of making hampers to give as gifts. Some are nice but many are just baskets full of pound shop tat and sample sachets out of magazines etc - seriously!

forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.php?t=1175727&highlight=finished+hamper+photos

The shite they sell in Boots is bad enough (wrapping a cheap deoderant and shower gel in an environment destroying amount of plastic does not a present make) but to go to the effort of doing this yourself!?

There are people who are just trying to find ways of making some extra money in any way they. Some people who do not make crafts might not realise just how expensive it is to buy materials to make just about anything but there are a lot of people who appreciate hand crafted stuff. Of course you do not have to like it or buy it but unless these FB friends are making you feel pressurised into buying their 'tat', YABU and quite nasty.

There is some great stuff & there is lots of shit pointless stuff
Those bead dummies, bag charms, keyrings.....definetly cannot see the point in them whatsoever tbh, if i wanted one it would cost me less to make myself one in a jiffy. Not to mention having your childs name dangling about for all strangers to see!-never a good idea

Those Oliphants are sweet - the plain-ish one with the matching blanket would make a lovely present for a new baby, and considering the tat other people (and places) see £29 seems reasonable.

The story behind it is heartbreaking.

Oh dear regretsy is going to be a real time sink. Love the 'bed of light' :o

I like the oliphants, the inspiration behind it is heartbreaking.

Arachnophobe Are you in Berkshire? We have those blinged up Converse that look like you'd go out in the rain once and they'd fall off.

I have to own up here- my sister who I have not spoken to in 10 years has a craft selling company doing those napy cakes and naff cards. She paints tea cups too. Bleugh. No wonder we hate the bones of each other don't have much in common. My Mum is a crafter too, making me wear shitty jumpers for school instead of the proper school bought ones, and making those Jane Greenhalgh or whatever they were knitted people. She knitted a baby doll one and gave it a name when I left home, the weirdo.

Here's one of the frankly delightful items in my sister's shop- I'm not putting a link to the shop or you might out me to the old cow.

Its just twee, isn't it, and I have nowt against those who are good at it, but there are an awful lot of people who are genuinely shit at it.

I run an Online Carboot, and they aren't allowed on there- second hand and new goods only, anything which has been near a home owned glue gun can sod off.

I make and sell jewellery and advertise it on FB (separate page to my personal page though)

Arachnaphobe lol! Bless her though...one of my FB "friends" sells reindeer poop!

Gambas - yeah, I sometimes go on MSE and I've always been amazed by the hamper for gifts brigade as well!

OP - yabu, in these hard times people are trying to make an honest living, if the stuff is tat then it won't sell. And some of my friends doing this are v talented.

But fliss your jewellery is not tat!

There is a LOT of tat, but some things are worth looking at

So glad you said this can't agree more. There are some amazing people out there making fab things but some are worst than my 4 year old can do.

GhostShip but the aren't unique - don't know if you are the original or not but I have a seller on mine who does these.

not much IS unique really head it's the design that makes things so and most people are imitating others aren't they.

Was just referring to the name of the page, plus the designs are exactly the same

The jute bag thing isn't unique. They're everywhere and grim to me.

Want unique? Buy the plain bags, give them to kids with a pack of fabric pens.

Smooth I do know how much materials cost....as I make things too! But not to sell, I tend to give them away if someone admires them.

Loads of people do them, but no-one in our area was so we started. Unique is just a name...

The designs are the same because people want the exact same, thats what they ask for. I'm just happy that the kids are happy :) it's a fad anyway. they'll die out.

I make costume jewellery, but I don't sell it. I tend to make individual gifts for friends and family, a few careful pieces. For me it's more about a hobby giving me a welcome respite from everyday life than something to sell.