Dismayed by comsumerism

[goneveryquiet]

To think that this is mockery of the highest level.

In a country of food banks and poverty a well know department store has opened a shop selling fake food as toys. It's sold out and people are paying £50 for a chip with a cute smile.

AIBU that we have lost touch with reality l? Consumerism gone mad?!

Nothing wrong with a wealth divide. Or consumerism.

Time we stop blaming everyone else for our problems and situations in life and work on improving ourselves.

Op didn't come back then! 😂

As an ideaology, I hate consumerism and buying ‘stuff’ for stuff’s sake isn’t for me. I can’t understand ‘shopping’ as an activity, and agree that there is an irony in food banks existing alongside designer play food.

However, I also recognise my own hypocrisy in that my views don’t prevent me from buying second hand books, paying over the odds for a local veg box or indeed £50 for cat tree for my (spoiled) cats whose food is pricier than mine.

I think very few people are genuinely free from consumerism.

Probably gone to Selfridge's....

Just Stop Jellycats coming to a store near you.

You beat me to it! This post is crackers......

I got the bowl of porridge with bluberries Jellycat for my niece....it's adorable!

I don’t like communism because it brings out the jealousy in people.

Fake food has been a play thing forever. Expensive toys have been a thing forever. Have you just realised?

We live in late-stage capitalism. That said, I'm a 70s baby and played with fake foods in play kitchens. It's not a new thing. I don't know why you're so outraged tbh.

I remember when jelly cat was reasonably priced, good value even. Their prices are eye watering now

Just googled them and most searched seems to be ‘why are they so expensive’, ‘why do people like them’ and ‘what is the deal with them’😅 Not for me, seems like a horrendous waste of money but then toy fads usually are but cherished when bought for the right person (I was a my little pony and Care Bear girl myself 😉)

We are currently in Jellycat fever, this too shall pass like Ty Beenie Babies.

🤣 I have a very expensive jellycat plant for my office, saved me thousands on replacing a real one everytime I forget to water it!

@Teamlilac meet Sid and Vera.

Incredible 😆 X

I think the jellycat chips are distracting people but the general complete brainwashing of the entire population into buying stuff that they don’t really need and that quite quickly ultimately ends in landfill leading to complete climate meltdown is absolutely dismaying yes. And I’m just as guilty as everyone else, the problem is too huge

Goodness. We don't live in a communist dictatorship.

Fake food toys have been an absolute godsend to me. All three of my ASD children have a love to food stuff but I hate wastage. My house looks like a Squishmallow outlet shop but the kids are happy. They had the best Christmas morning coming down to a huge £50 one each!

This is cute.

Look on the pet aisle of a supermarket or a pet store and you’ll find loads of fake food. Fake burgers, fake fruit and veg, fake portions of McDonald’s chips, fake chicken drumsticks, fake strings of sausages, even fake Starbucks coffee cups…and they all squeak.

Are you talking about Jellycats?

One, it isn't fake foood, it's a cute teddy bear barely resembling an article of food.

Two, consumerism hasn't got much to do with poverty. I thought this would be about the environment. Poor people can be consumerist

And what does the price have to do with it? Why does this specific toy annoy you? Have you donated anything recently, or have you selfishly been on holiday, eaten nice food and done other things?

How can one even over-consume jellycats a given the price of them? They are the opposite of overconsumption: well made collectibles that people actually value and keep forever.

OP is ridiculously wrong and can't seem to get their point straight.

I think I’m going to have to investigate them further, for my office!

@MooseBeTimeForSnow they are bloody gorgeous! I want some too now.

my dd will be so proud of me 🤣