Things that are crap - cunningly upsold

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Have just attempted to make a sandwich using “toasty bread”... bread fell apart - but tbh it’s also rubbish as toast. So am I right in thinking that along with “naked burgers” it’s all a big con, and aibu to ask - what crappy products you have been “upsold”?

Every time I buy Boden shoes I am sorry

Cheesenpickles - I feel the same, I rarely watch Corrie/Emmerdale, I don't like This Morning, Loose Women makes me want to throw something at the TV and don't even get me started on Britain's Got The Voice's X Factor.
The only things I tend to watch on it are The Chase and I'm A Celeb.
Same with ITV2 and ITVBe.

@ellesworth those channels are usually someone from TOWIE who has had a baby, Fearne Cotton meeting the Dalai Lama or the film Mannequin. Def agree with that. Any kind of singing/talent show (though I like GBBO AND GBSB ).

I cannot be doing with any of the reality crap. But the two shows that really irritate me the most apart from them are You've Been Framed (used to be alright, but now you have Harry Hill pretending that the people in the clips are celebs "It's Prince Charles on the Alps!" It doesn't look anything like Prince Charles. And it's a dry ski slope.) And Take Me Out - however many identikit women fighting over some guy who thinks he's God's gift when in fact he comes across as a bit of a twat.

@SerenDippitty I LOVE L'Oreal beauty tubes as recommended by someone on MN L'Oreal Paris Double Extension Mascara g.co/kgs/eMfsG6

And not expensive at all. It's the only mascara I've bought twice. I've now been using it for 2+ years so on my 4+ tube!

I have to agree with slimming clubs. I begrudge paying £5+ per week to see what my weight is and then be told that branded items are "free foods" yet shops own brands that are lower in calories, fat etc. you still have to count.
No thanks, I'll do it alone!

Champagne or indeed prosecco, it doesn't taste very nice not envy

Baby toys, because babies would honestly rather play with trash.

Yes! Literally, kitchen implements, your keys and a cardboard box or 2, that's all kids need toy-wise for the first 2 years!

any sort of diet food that is basically half the size and the same price, if not more expensive. Then when you compare nutritional value its almost same per 100g than the regular product.
Oh and I fell for buying a bugaboo pram for PFB and soon wished I hadn't. It was nowhere near as good as the 2nd hand tandem pushchair we got when DC2 was born.
I didn't actually buy it but someone bought a rain mac for DD when she was a baby. An actual rain mac age 0-3 months. It was very cute but the label never came off because it was so useless and impractical.

'Trends' for grown-ups. If you're over the age of 19 just be your own person ffs! It's sad that people feel the need to redecorate their house all grey, or tattoo their eyebrows on, or start 'gifting' each other things instead of giving presents, just because strangers on the internet do!!!!!

@Happyspud there was a post on here a while back where someone had been told by either a Lancôme or Christian Dior employee (can't recall which) that all their mascaras use exactly the same formula, but they just invented new packaging to create a newer/better product every six months or so!

Oh and food processors - my DH blew ours up recently trying to liquify a pumpkin. It turns out our little, cheap handheld one does everything it did, but cleaning and storing it is so much easier!

Pizza Express "Legere" dieters Pizza .....it's a pizza with a fucking massive hole punched out the middle ffs! Still costs £12.....what a bloody swizz! I wonder if they chuck the discarded hole piece in the bin (wasteful) or sell it to the teeny tots as mini pizzas?

That would make sense because safety testing new ingredients and formulas must be pretty expensive.
A lot of the stuff in the gluten free range is just cornflakes or sugar free sugar puffs, but at three times the price. Except for the 'pizza' which is cheese on a cauliflower base ie cauliflower cheese.
Broccoli 'rice' is just minced broccoli stalks.

Hugs lividlovelaughs.
So called cures for psoriasis. I hate to think what I have spent over the years.

Lastly from me, cocaine! I've had a number of close friends describe how much alcohol they need to consume while taking it, because it's cut with so much speed-inducing rubbish that you feel on edge the whole time.

Just why?

Luckily most have seen sense and stopped completely when they got older.

any sort of diet food that is basically half the size and the same price, if not more expensive. Then when you compare nutritional value its almost same per 100g than the regular product.

All the rest of us saw Marjorie Dawes and laughed at how ridiculously absurd she was. Certain food manufacturers, however, clearly viewed her as their leading wise guru!

I LOVE my compact pulley string chopper so no way does it have a place on this thread. 🔨

I don't know if its a spoof or real that a pub in london was selling cauliflower "steaks" on offer 2 for £28. If you thought that was a good offer then IMO you deserve to be ripped off!!

All the rest of us saw Marjorie Dawes and laughed at how ridiculously absurd she was. Certain food manufacturers, however, clearly viewed her as their leading wise guru!
😂😂 dust, anyone??

This is making me laugh so much!

Television. I just don't get it..I'm a book/radio person (and I'm in my 30s!)

Micellar water. It's just saline.

Bottle water like Evian. Filter your own at home and save the plastic waste!

I'm also deeply skeptical about the "next miracle cure", from Tumeric shots to seaweed capsules to charcoal tooth paste to CBD oil to bloody Apple Cider Vinegar which can apparently cure anything and everything. But hey, maybe my user name gave that opinion away 😉

Curved TV's. Friend's DH got one. Only 1 chair in the house was directly in front of it enough not to find it annoying.

Pilates. Sorry but lots of £ on fees, lots of £ on Lycra and one bust knee later it’s all over.

Massage. Feels great at the time. No lasting benefits whatsoever. Nothing that a bath and a glass of wine couldn’t do imho

I am glad that I read that, I like a pizza now and then but don’t like being conned.