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todayiamadaisy) wrote2017-11-11 11:11 pm
todayiamadaisy) wrote2017-11-11 11:11 pm
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Something I enjoy about this time of year: not the Innovations Christmas catalogue (well, I mean, yes, I do enjoy it, although this year's was just average, with no outstandingly nonsensical items), but The Store's Christmas advertisements. Not because they're particularly good, mind. They're just regular ads.
(You should be able to click to embiggen it.)
These have been running for several years now, and they're always the same: someone involved with The Store picks a variety of goods that they will be giving as gifts. Fairly innocuous, and I must admit I paid them no attention at first. But my mother? She hates them. They make her splutter with incoherent rage. Misplaced rage, I feel, but, eh, we all have our little foibles.
What incenses her about these ads is:
1. The person's family and friends will read the ad and know what they're getting, thus ruining the surprise and letting them know how much it cost.
2. Unless this is all just for show, in which case the person's family and friends will read the ad and think they know what they're getting, only to get a nasty shock when they get a pair of socks, particularly if they've used the price of the gift as a guide for what to buy the person in return.
3. The cost of the gifts is out of whack. In this one, the woman's gift to herself is a $365 bag, which is more expensive than anything she's buying for anyone else. In the one that really infuriates my mother, a man is buying his wife a $49 trinket, while giving his sister a really nice $200 pair of earrings. There will be trouble in that house this festive season.
I do like that 1000 colour jigsaw puzzle though.
(You should be able to click to embiggen it.)
These have been running for several years now, and they're always the same: someone involved with The Store picks a variety of goods that they will be giving as gifts. Fairly innocuous, and I must admit I paid them no attention at first. But my mother? She hates them. They make her splutter with incoherent rage. Misplaced rage, I feel, but, eh, we all have our little foibles.
What incenses her about these ads is:
1. The person's family and friends will read the ad and know what they're getting, thus ruining the surprise and letting them know how much it cost.
2. Unless this is all just for show, in which case the person's family and friends will read the ad and think they know what they're getting, only to get a nasty shock when they get a pair of socks, particularly if they've used the price of the gift as a guide for what to buy the person in return.
3. The cost of the gifts is out of whack. In this one, the woman's gift to herself is a $365 bag, which is more expensive than anything she's buying for anyone else. In the one that really infuriates my mother, a man is buying his wife a $49 trinket, while giving his sister a really nice $200 pair of earrings. There will be trouble in that house this festive season.
I do like that 1000 colour jigsaw puzzle though.