To hate Claire’s Accessories

[RumbleStrutt]

Special day for DD so she was allowed small amount of pocket money to spend in Claire’s. As soon as we get in there I immediately want to leave. Most of it is utter tat; ugly, overpriced environmental disaster that will end up in landfill. I can cope with some of the headbands and scrunchies but just hate the in-shop experience.

Manager gleefully reminds us it’s “buy 3 get 3 free” (what kind of economics is that?!). I’m thinking please don’t want 3 things as then I’ll have to stay here whilst you choose another 3 and have 6 items of crap in my house.

Luckily she only wanted 2 that were reasonable choices so we go to pay. Manager says I can do these 3 for 2 so choose something else if you like (very nice of her) so that takes another 5 mins.

Go to pay and asked for email address. I say just print the receipt it’s ok. Manager excitedly tells me all the coupons I’ll get and how her friend got £50 worth of stuff for £17. She meant well but I’m wanting to literally run out of the door at this point.

It’s nice seeing some of the groups of slightly older girls shopping together and having fun but I just can’t stand it and have boycotted Smiggle for a similar reason.

Anyone else?

Your poor daughter. Probably wearing a dead ladies old fashioned necklace.

I can't stand it - it's always so cramped. Things DD had bought from there falls apart very quickly. No to mention the fact that they multilateral babies 😡

mutilate!

Gross isn’t it.

It’s a child’s dream shop.

Ahh it’s a right of passage spending all your pocket money in Claire’s! My best friend abs I still have our matching charm bracelets (don’t wear them but just for sentimental value)

Judgy much? I used to love going round charity shops with my granny.

I collect novelty lipbalms i love it! I still go in for stuff when i can. Almost as nice as accessorize they used to wrap up your stuff in such nice paper back in the day

That really isn't the vibe I've got from anything that's been posted so far. Yours is the arsiest attitude by far. Some people seem hell-bent on seeing snobbery when it is just a difference in taste or opinion.

Similar produce for a fraction of the price from a certain online store Sh--in. I suppose it's the shop experience though for the young girls. Let them have a bit of fun. You don't have to go in until they are ready to pay surely. Sit outside or have a coffee while you wait. Maybe your daughter is too young to be alone in the shop though.

Vintage jewellery really isnt clean or safe for kids. Its barely safe for adults.

I'll add the size of the shops. Why not space it out? Why buy the tiniest premises you can possibly find so anyone going in there with a bag or more than a size ten is going to be knocking things off left and right?

And the price increases. I am trying to get off my expectation of things being prices from 20 years ago but my god a scrunchie for a tenner? a hair clip for a tenner! WTAF? I picked one up for my daughter going 'alright then go on' and then went 'ten pounds? nope' and put it back. Ridiculous, it's a bloody hair clip.

I love Claire's! I buy earrings and hair bands / bandanas and I love the 3 for 3!

Snobbery around Claire's makes me laugh so much, so many times someone has complimented my earrings and asked where I got them only to be revolted when I say Claire's 😁😂

Yes, but my issue with them is their use of piercing guns 😡

YABVU. This isn’t about you. So what if you don’t like it? She doesn’t like going wine shopping with you or browsing for stuff you’re interested in but she does it anyway.

I loved it when I was a teenager as it was really cheap to get accessories etc.

I went in for the first time in easily 15 years to see if I could get some hair clips for DD2 and saw they were twice as expensive as other shops now and not even good quality.

Why? We all had ours done there and were fine. Do they cause more infection? How?

Why are people offended at op saying she doesn't like a shop???

I find Claire's fun, but agree about most going yo landfill after a few years.

This. Don’t we just shut up and put up sometimes for the people we love.

This wasn’t for or about you.

Why?

It’s always been tat, and it isn’t aimed at you it’s aimed at kids. Environmentally not ideal but don’t spoil your daughters fun.

@Whatup

What crap is this?

I think its really overpriced. The offers are always on so don't feel like an actual special offer

I mean, I find Claire's Accessories awful, yes. But it's not meant for us, is it? It's for kids. It's not designed to appeal to adults any more than, say, Build-A-Bear or Korean boy bands or a soft play centre.

Pretty sure when I was 12 I would have absolutely loved going into a shop full of cheap trendy accessories and getting six things for my money to be the envy of my mates. Most 12-year-old girls are not going to want to spend their birthday money on a single handcrafted timeless statement piece made from recycled driftwood, are they?

Its horrendously expensive for plastic tat, it used to be quite cheap when I was growing up. We went to the Trafford centre one and we ended up going to Kenji next door, much cheaper and has unique items.

Aaawww, Bow Bangles, that's brought back some memories! Claire's (it's American I think, been around for about 60 years in one form or another) bought out Bow Bangles in the mid 90s so not a rebrand as such.