I admit it, I judge your purchases

[Kiwi]

I know I have no right to judge a person by what they purchase but I can't help myself it seems. I know its wrong shallow but whatever.
I would NEVER say anything out outloud, I always find something about a persons purchase to compliment it if they ask me but inside I am sometimes aghast at what customers purchase.

A guy today brought a pillow that was $150! It wasn't special just a regular down pillow with a designer name on it. I wanted to smack him, who spend over a hundred dollars on a SINGLE pillow!

Another woman spent $604 on stuff for her bed, all super high end but it was in this garish lime green, burnt orange and brown colour set. Hideous. She kept going on and on about it with whomever she was yaking with on the phone. Her carpet was grey/blue with cream wallpaper YUCK

It's the same with the mustard coloured curtains or the bathroom set (waste bin, soap dispenser, tooth brush holder) that is black with diamantes glued on to it. It costs $200 for a set that looks like it should be from the dollar store. Or the DKNY leapoard print pilolow shams or the fluffy old woman green bathrobe or ANY of those nasty pee catcher rugs people put around their toilets.

Yes I am a nasty person but at minimum wage I have to keep myself sane somehow!

[Slayer]

My mom spent $70 per pillow. She does have back issues and would wake up in pain. Now, no pain. $150 for nothing special except brand is pretty lame. I want his money to burn! Lol

Those colors and patterns sound realllly horrible. Sometimes I look at things and wonder how it even got made. So ugly.

[Tama]

If you have medical issues like Slayer's mom, then yes...go ahead and spend $150 on a fluffy pillow that helps alleviate your horrific back pain. No one is going to get upset at that.

But if you just have money to burn...

WHY?

[fireheart]

I'll echo pretty much what the others said: if it was a pillow for back/neck/snoring issues, then yes, I can understand forking out $150 for a pillow.

But seriously, did this pillow have the down from golden geese in them or something?

[tofu]

pee catchers? o.o! i thought those were so my feet don't get cold .. aw i do find myself side eyeing some of the stuff that ends up being sold in our store though, the colour combinations .. just no.

[Kiwi]

We have special pillows for people with back and neck problems they are all around $60 and I think that is totally resonable! This was just a regular pillow, we have so many better ones for half the price he paid.

oh well a fool and his money...

[Pixilated]

In some cases (e.g. the pillows) there might be mitigating circumstances but with truly horrible colours ... it's just somebody with truly lousy taste, LOL. I don't see anything wrong with your thinking "OMG!!!" because you are only thinking it. I think we've all bought things at one point or another that raised eyebrows -- or generated snarky comments. Once, at a thrift store, I scooped up a child's backpack shaped like Hedwig, the owl in the Harry Potter books. When I told my coworkers about it, the general reaction was, "So how many six-year-olds did you have to kick out of the way to get it?"

[Kittish]

Slightly off track here, but so far as judging others... well, we're human. Humans do that. It's built in, we really can't help it. The trick is to try not to judge other people too harshly, though granted harsh is sometimes entirely called for.

That said, I agree, paying $150 for a designer pillow is just stupid silly. And some people have no taste at all when it comes to color combinations.

[dalesys]

...some people have no taste at all when it comes to color combinations.

And I sincerely believe that most of them are "fashion" designers!

[MoonCat]

It might not look the same to them as it does to you. Color blindness and all that. I have trouble distinguishing between certain shades of blue and gray--they look the same to me. So maybe that lime green looked different to that lady.

Or she could just have really icky taste, yeah.

[Merriweather]

Hey, grab your amusement where you can. I've been known to glance in peoples baskets while standing in line and some of the combination of things are hilarious (not that I'd ever say anythng, of course).

Wal-mart started off with a promising line of commercials (which unfortunately, mostly failed ot live up to the potential of the actual idea) where they showed several items people were purchasing together (some weird combinations) then showed what they were being used for. Could have been a hilarious line of commercials with a better ad team.

[dalesys]

Hey, grab your amusement where you can.

Saw a very serious grey-haired lady in a sedate white sedan yesterday... with a porn star license plate. 048 LYX ... if she could only have managed 21 more...

[MiloMorai]

And I thought we were splurging when we spent $15 on our pillows. We were buying the $4 ones before that.

[Sleepwalker]

O, cmon, live a little. My bedding set(two changes of Queen sheets and reversible comforter) was ten dollars and came in a bag. Combined with mattress, box spring, and two pillows, it cost...12 dollars. It probably looks nicer than hers.

[Becks]

Just because you have money doesn't mean you have taste.