Biggest scam you didn’t know was a scam

[Sillysausage2]

Lighthearted 😂
I saw an Instagram post earlier about the biggest thing you don’t realise is a scam and we all accept as normal.
We all have stories about how our parents raised 7 kids etc in a 3 bed if they were lucky, my grandparents had 9 in a 2 bed 😂
the aim for everyone now is buying or building massive houses, 3 en suites at least, we spend the weekends in Ikea, home bargain etc buying shit we don’t need and cleaning the houses with the 4 bathrooms!
I swear I’ve spent more Time cleaning the legs of chairs than is reasonable and I seem to wash the walls of my bathroom far more than people ever mentioned.
I don’t remember my mother ever cleaning the panelling on the walls.
is it all a scam? Are we busy fools?
sometimes I got to centre Parcs like places and think how simple my life would be if we al only had one suitcase each

You’re lucky! It’s my grandmother’s face I see now!!

I can’t use most products on my washing due to allergies. The unscented works just as well for us. If someone has it on their clothes it sets me off sneezing etc . Seems a lot of these extra washing products are just there to get more money out of people especially the crystal booster ones I’ve seen advertised.

I think this is something the Americans are trying to pass on, being permanently "active" or "productive" as a desirable thing.

Since my OH died I have changed my eating habits, I rarely have a 'proper' meal, being old I often have breakfast at about 11, a sandwich or something similar late pm and then, if I fancy it, a snacky thing mid evening, duck spring rolls in the air fryer are popular!

I tend to think of the Betterware catalogue as a forerunner of Lakeland, full of things you don't really need, another one which was often inside the Sunday newspaper is Scotts of Stowe, I even went out of my way to go to the shop!

I’m might get blasted here but I e always thought that the food bank basket in a supermarket is a scam.

I don’t mean donating to a food bank but the supermarket make profit off the products we buy and then they donate it under their name all the while we as consumers pay for it.

If they donated the profit off those donations that would be different.

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'nativity' 😆

Totally agree. Really get annoyed at the wages of the vice president of these universities.

I voted YABU because I'm still living like the old days by all accounts. I've never kept up with the Joneses. I have two handbags. No ensuites. A modest house - yes cleaning was part of that decision. As was the modest sized garden. One car for the whole family- we share.

The only problem on that list I share is clutter. That's because I hang onto stuff too long and can't bear to throw anything away that might be useful in future 🤣.

Biggest scam that people still amazingly pay for when buying goods: Do you need some extra insurance for that?

The idea that we can have it all. Don’t get me wrong, we can, but generally just not all at the same time (unless we can afford to pay for full time childcare/nanny and a cleaner).
And ironing.. .in fact most cleaning that isn’t absolutely necessary. A colleague recently spent a day off doing a “sparkle clean”. She lives alone.
And car leasing.

This would only be true if you’re borrowing more each time you remortgage 🙂

otherwise your capital reduces, and when you remortgage the capital owed is the same and decreases as you pay.

it’s entirely possible to search mortgages available yourself, I’ve never used a broker, and had a 10 year fixed in place since 2018.

We must all have everything shaved or plumbed up lips and slug eyebrows and have a tan the colour of on umpa lumpa. 🙄🤐

WhatsApp. It seemed so much more convenient than SMS because you could see if the recipient had read your message.

In reality, it means that your boss (and clients if you deal with them directly) will contact you outside of working hours which means that eventually everyone will turn off the blue ticks for plausible deniability.

So you won't be able to see if the message has been read, and that was the main new feature, remember?

This! Now I look at older people - celebs in their fifties and realise they are just kids like me in older looking bodies and they aren't grown ups at all 🤣

Eat less yourself and do more exercise.

I agree that the business model behind WW, SW etc that people fail. If they didnt then they wouldnt keep paying.

The "eat less, do more" idea though doesnt actually work for most people. Exercise makes you fitter but doesnt do a lot for weight loss. Eating less, if you are eating the wrong things in the first place, wont do much either. Sugar addiction is the biggest issue in obesity for a lot of people. All sugars not just the sweet sort. This is another reason why the slimming clubs dont work long term. SW is the worst for this as it says you can eat as much pasta as you like as long as you dont eat XYZ with it and their "syn" free treats are high in sugar too. Oh yes you will lose weight but until you kick the sugar habit, it wont stay off.

Corporation pop with a dab of ribena for me.

I kept noticing a lovely fresh smell on my clothes yesterday and I don't use fabric conditioner or perfume. Then I realized it was because the weather had been good enough for me to hang my washing out to dry last week.

Dental charges, there's a lot of very rich dentists out there.

I was 30 when I realised house decor was gashionable/seasonal. I just assumed you did what was to your taste and style, didn't know certain tiles, colours, effects were trendy and then old fashioned....SCAM!

The biggest scam is being told what you like by someone else and believing it.

Yes! I never understood this! You obviously put on clothes every day so although you don't need to follow fashion, I can see how that's a thing. But why would you go through painting or wallpapering a room/your home and then change it because of what's in fashion? Anyone who does that must have amounts of money and time I can't even fathom.

I also feel like that about Christmas decorations - I haul the same ones out every year and have a christmas tree ornament collection that I occasionally add to, and treasure. When I realised a friend was chucking them out and buying new ones in the "in" colours every year I was horrified!