The missus came home after doing some shopping for face creams and stuff. And proud as punch she was showing off this Avene Thermal Spring Water spray she got for the bargain price of ~$20 for 300ml, down from ~$26.
http://www.avene.com.au/avene-thermal-spring-water/thermal-s…
That's right folks, $20 for a 300ml can of water.
So when has your SO come home with a bargain that has just made you shake your OzB head with despair?
just a monkey with a search engine
Trolling using your "elderly mum" was much more subtle and was a good one. But it seems mundane insults are all you got left now that your game is exposed.
sagiballs on 13/07/2016 - 10:05
Panadol rapid is legit. Take it from me I'm a doctor.
Still a good chuckle.
No. Of course not. EBM is the basis of most of what we do.
However, some things are stupid. Case in point - the evidence that Perkinma wants
That is why there is no trial of paracetamol v Panadol rapid
Which is what Berkina wants. But s/he is too thick to understand why it doesn't exist.
On the upside though, I am really enjoying watching them struggle to reason though.
paracetamol v Panadol rapid
Whoops, did it again Dr Sagiballs - Panadol Rapid is paracetamol you keep forgetting. It's written on the packet.
what Berkina wants. But s/he is too thick to understand
LOL more name calling. Such a clever play on my username too.
sagiballs on 13/07/2016 - 10:05
Panadol rapid is legit. Take it from me I'm a doctor.
[@perkinma](/comment/3856119/redir
You can't seem to get past the fact that there is more to a medication than just the active ingredient
I am also amused that you think Berkina is somehow an insult or a clever play on words. Cheers mate. But actually my autocorrect just doesn't care for you
I do look forward to any other amazing quips you might have
somehow an insult or a clever play on words
Woosh……
other amazing quips
sagiballs on 13/07/2016 - 10:05
Panadol rapid is legit. Take it from me I'm a doctor.
Try the Aldi water. Managed to get my SO to buy it instead the more expensive Mt Franklin.
Well tell your partner what would she prefer… You on the net downloading/viewing porn or on OzB? I am sure that will shut her up!
get her some reputable branded water
Oh dear, the bottled water industry has a lot to answer for…
My mother proudly bought a cheap DVD player on sale at JH Hifi….. with a $70 HDMI cable to go with it ("but the nice sales man said I had to use this cable if I wanted it to work well and get a good picture"
I hope you returned it for her. With a complaint to the manager accompanying it.
I work with tons of old people doing on site IT work and the amount of ninety-thousand dollar cables I come across is amazing. And $1800 laptops with a lovely old lady wondering why there is a funny hinge on the back.
I grab the receipt, call the store and spray the manager and staff member for being predators on seniors. And post it on their FB page if possible.
Selling old people monster cables should be a hanging offense. Harvey Norman are the TOP offenders here. Closely followed by JB (as of a couple years ago, they used to be quite good).
I think preying on the elderly is probably what kept HN afloat all these years.
@sparkles: Yeah, my dear old dad loves technology and a "bargain". He once went into HN for a computer because his current one was running slow (didn't try to do anything to fix that, just decided he needed a new computer) and the sales assistant very generously said "This one is $2000 and will do everything you need … and don't tell the boss but I'll knock $50 off the price for you. Would you like to buy this antivirus as well? How about the extended warranty?". Now dad won't shop anywhere else because it's such a great place and he got a discount without even asking.
@compacc: Ugh. I have elderly relos just like this. My mum in particular, who is very thrifty in many ways (mainly feeding the family) but ridiculously stubborn when it comes to things she doesn't understand. (Has to buy cars new, has to buy tech from the big retailers, has to buy her international airfares from the non-budget airlines).
Reflecting on stories like this makes me think if I ever have kids, I'd vow to not be a stubborn old "I'm wiser than you" fool and actually listen to my kids in old age.
My wife buys expensive dog food (for the dog, not herself) that costs around $90 for enough to last a couple of months. She asked me to re-order last time and I discovered that for less than $15 more you get double the amount of food.
Her explanation for not taking up this option? The bag is too heavy. It gets delivered.
Pour it into smaller bags for her. Like what is the going rate for garbage bags.
Gets delivered to the door. The only move it then has is to the garage, which I'm more than happy to do to save $75, where it stays until empty. We just scoop out the dog's meals with a cup.
Directions and Ingredients
Spray directly onto the skin to hydrate, soothe and calm.
Avoid spraying directly into the eyes.
Water, nitrogen.
…….
Wow OP…. Wow.
It's not like the nitrogen propellant is terribly rare and expensive lol..
When she doesn't use cashrewards for online shopping
$300 haircut which I couldn't tell that she had one!
I couldn't tell that she had one!
Forget the $300, were you in the doghouse for not being able to tell?
Using electric heaters all the time in rooms with giant windows and high ceilings. It never really warms the room enough to be comfortable but burns electricity like mental. My kitchen is a place of transience where I would never spend more than a few minutes pottering around before heading to hang in bedroom or loungeroom but she insists I have a heater in the kitchen. The kitchen with huge windows and high ceilings.
No. The ozbargainer in me will not budge on this. I may as well burn a pile of money to heat the room.
mate, I feel your pain. We have a similar situation. OZB is a safe place to vent.
My wife insists on walking around almost naked using crappy blow heaters in addition to the a/c on 32 in every room 5 months a year. On the one the hand the ozbargainer in me goes nuts on the other hand boobs.
boobs trumps everything.
Hmm. Is there gas heating available though?
And who's the one who actually spends the time in the kitchen though?
My SO Purchased those flight centre gift cards but forgot to swipe her Woolworths rewards card the first time…. She bought 5x150. Tears
Do they even give any points when swiping now? I thought it was just certain items?
It was when you got $25 rewards for each you purchased.
NICE!!!
My friends wife pays $350 for a haircut that she drives about 45 minutes to and fro every 2-3 months for …
Wife paid $150 for a pair of 2XU compression pants.
I hope you didnt ask her why she needed compression pants
I'm surprised you haven't learnt yet.
Its never a bargain to complain about what wives and girlfriends use for their cosmetics.
There is a reason for everything they do, us men don't always understand it. That's why either suck it up and let them spend your money, or you will be spending plenty of time in the kennel. haha
Instead if you were a true ozbargainer, you should have told her, she could have gotten it for even cheaper at $17.50 per bottle free delivery.
http://www.lookfantastic.com/avene-thermal-water-300ml/11117…
My kids wearing short sleeve PJs turning on the gas heater and lying in front of it instead of wearing some warmer clothes. Gah!!!
Bitcoin shares… Because they WILL be the new currency.
After I finished work one day, my fiance told me that he found our dog's favourite bones were on sale ($10 down to $8 per pack), so he bought 2 packs. The next day when I was clearing the grocery bags from the table, I found the receipt for the purchase. It turns out that while he had taken 2 packs home, he had actually paid for 3!
A few years back, my dad bought a CRT monitor for $200 when he could have bought an LCD monitor for cheaper
Dad must be a gamer. CRT monitors have no latency
s**t… i'm in trouble now.. my missus has read this post (generally she doesn't go in forum.. - yes we both are ozbraginers ! ) and text me to read this … actually i ordered a heavy duty box from masters, never used it and then after few days i put all items (useless at this stage) i purchased in past in the box… then i had to buy another box as it was not enough…
everything were purchased as a 'BARGAIN' from ozbargain by the way…
common line from the miss'
me - how much was is
wife - it was originally this much
me - i didnt ask how much it was originally
lol
"It's not you much you spend, it's how much you save!!"
My wife and I both play this game. :)
The most extreme case which made me lol so hard about saving $58,000 on a watch http://www.amazon.com/Zenith-96-0529-4035-Tourbillon-Titaniu…
Missus buys her shampoo off ebay for almost $100.
Kerastase? Coz my missus also spend about the same amount !!
Yes exactly…. Kerastase Bain Satin 1….. It's just beyond me that why so expensive!
This is why I tell the wife she is banned from buying me anything electrical as presents because I just know she'll get ripped off.
Like the time she bought a PS3 and then bought their $30 hdmi cable…
was that cable 20 meters long? last time i spent that much on a HDMI cable it was
I was just lucky she didn't buy a monster cable
I used to do the running and tapping Opal card with true Ozbargain spirit, but SO used Helicopter from Melbourne to Geelong.
Here SO = Some One
Funnily enough, my mrs came home with the exact same product, Avene Spring Water (mist?), but she got them @ 2 for the price of 1.
But now, months later, she thinks it's ok to pay full price since it's 'such a good product' :(
Lol this thread makes me laugh.
Guys, our faces are our capital. Cosmetics and skincare matters to us. Ageing sucks for women and gets exponentially harder to fix the more time goes on.
Nice skin makes us glow. I spend my earned cash cause I like seeing myself with glowy skin while I still have it.
I see the value there and it outweighs the opportunity cost.
It perplexes me when guys question how much women spend on cosmetics, yet most guys I know piss away a fair bit of $ drinking with their lads every Friday and Saturday night.
Lol, it's all a matter of perspective..
But at least for most of my wife's cosmetics, it can be traced back to a manufacturing process involving the efforts of many people, the knowledge of scientists, designs by engineers, tests on monkeys, etc.. But this product seems like a bloke just poured tap water into a tin, and pressurised it with nitrogen - the most abundant and cheaply harvested elemental gas on this planet, and marketing put a massive price on it.
But surely at some point in the past, present, or future you will experience this too… When someone buys something that makes you think "you're a sucker". ;)
Fair enough. I didn't realize the ingredients were pure water and nitrogen when I wrote the above…. I was kind of expecting things like rose water or camomile oil or tea treee oil added in, etc ….
Yes, that is pretty lame now that I look at it. But I guess the op's SO sees a $19 premium in the form factor of having a spray can, rather than carrying around a garden bottle of water during the day. Doesn't come off the best decision to make, but far from the worse.
Personally the water spray thing is not something I would buy… would rather make my own (there are plenty of homemade recipes on pinterest). But there are skincare products I'd pay a premium on even though I know the ingredients can be had for a fraction of the price. Mainly products from LUSH, actually.
You're preaching to the wrong person here (If I was one of your intended recipients that is? ^_^).
I don't spend $$$ drinking with the lads every weekend, in fact I barely drink at all, but if I do, it's with my wife.
If there is actual proven research that shows all of this stuff actually makes you age slower / remove wrinkles / increase beauty then fine, but I don't think we are at that point yet with most topical products, are we?
Also, we are a single income household and $26 for that can of water mist is seriously not an essential item, the problem is the marketing makes people think "oh it's expensive then it must be good and must work" but I'm sure creative people can achieve the same results with a cheaper product.
Sure if you can afford it and are paying for it yourself, then by all means buy whatever the heck you like ^_^
I am going to say this, so because someone spends money on alcohol, they don't deserve to criticise others' spending on cosmetics?
Here is my opinion on it. I spend fair bit of money on skin care products for a guy. I do own a toner, moisturising cream and an exfoliating cream in form of BHA cream. They cost me around $60~$90 per 3 months (roughly, that said, I share my toner with my gf). I am not a drinker, so I shouldn't perplex you with my question.
Many of the skin care products are based on marketing and hype in my opinion. A lot of them focus more on the design of the bottle than actual content, to extent where the packaging is done in such way that could degrade the product, i.e. jar packaging which exposes the content to air, clear bottle that allow UV rays to pass through etc.
I do agree with the skin care products being an investment. I personally do believe that skin condition shows how much effort you've put into it. Unless your skin is naturally perfect, in which case, I envy you to death. All that said, as I mentioned, there are expensive products out there that are more focussed on hype and marketing.
So my question is simply this, how many people do you think can argue that their "investment" is a reasonable one? How much the investment on those products are not simply on products with good marketing and placebo effects?
Detora essential oils. $300 for something worth $20. I died, really did.
@perkinma:
And if you want to blanket search paracetamol on pub Med as an example, next time you might want to remove comparison trials against other classes of analgesics and remove operative pain. There are filters buddy
You know. Just to hide the fact that you are not just a monkey with a search engine… Oh. Wait