Fall and Winter are typically the season for this, but I’ve noticed more people than usual have taken up interest in what amount to gyms. These very, very expensive gyms, which market themselves as almost exceptional in how they can help you regain yourself. All the while these “miracle body regimes” are advertised everywhere. Suspicious industry much?
Some neighbors of mine were headed there. I remember this because they were about to get into their vehicle, and I asked “the location is right around the corner, you don’t want to walk and maybe save transport money” and they responded “no, we’re old, we can’t do that” before they rode there and gained entry so they can run on the machine, and returned having used their whole wallet due to the journey/destination. Though not as memorable as the fact they came back with a brand of potato chips with the same name as the place they went to. Nothing like feeding into what you’re there to fix.
How about you though?
Any product which requires proprietary refills or filters.
My FIL once bought an expensive coffee machine that worked with beans. But you couldn’t just buy a bag of regular beans and refill the machine, no, you needed to buy a special kind of expensive cassette with their brand and their beans that fitted perfectly in the machine. My FIL just sowed off the top of the cassette that came with the purchase and refilled it with regular coffee beans for years.
Gah Brabantia can fuck right off with their designer bins that are only designer so they can specifically not use standard bin bags