What is the deal with...
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Grumpy
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Yes, almost as big as Pet Rocks
SamSpade
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Probably the best description of it I've ever heard. Or the Pampered Chef of baskets.
Seems to me their time has come and gone - if people are trying to SELL them, it's probably a sign they're no longer the IN thing.
I never understood the lure of them. I think they are ugly.
I never understood the attraction. How many baskets does a person need?
SamSpade
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Part of it is, you kind of get them as "freebies" if you're in the whole multi-level marketing pyramid - just like Tupperware and Pampered Chef.
SOME of the baskets have designs I thought were kind of useful. My wife has a few which we've kept for many years, because they have plastic inlays which are perfect around holiday times for serving food, appetizers and holding plasticware.
But women I knew that were into them were partly allured by the fact that they were EXPENSIVE. You know - like jewelry. Otherwise known as pretty rocks. I know at least one woman who has them hanging from the rafters of her kitchen. LOTS of them.
mitzi
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Way too expensive too.
Had to look this up. The stuff looks like the kind of stuff I've seen in WalMart. Is it pricey?
NOT worth the $$$ either!!
mitzi
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I think it's pricey for the quality. It's not made that well.
Multilevel marketing /Direct home sales.
Like Home Interiors & Gifts, Princess House Crystal, Pampered Chef, Tupperware...
Some products are more expensive than others. I never saw the attraction to the baskets.
I've seen a few Pampered Chef items that, to me, were worth the money, but I wouldn't try to outfit my whole kitchen with some of their useless utensils.
Me, neither.
In my past lives, I've been a direct home sales contractor for Home Interiors, Princess House and also Rainbow vacuum cleaning systems.
Men need/buy kitchen gadgets!
OR, lots of times people/groups have fundraiser parties, or maybe a guy will host a party for other men friends to buy gifts for the wives.
SamSpade
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FIRST Pampered Chef person I ever met was a man, passing out invitations for a party he was HOSTING.
Of course, he did it with his wife.
Not REAL men! I was married for 30 years you know. Wifey attended a few and would show me the brochures.
SamSpade
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A good friend of mine has the same attitude about nearly all jewelry, but especially diamonds.
His explanation - "Sam, this stuff is made from the most common stuff on earth - carbon. We can even MAKE these things. Unlike gold, there's not a finite supply - for our purposes, there's an INFINITE supply. It costs a lot, because the people who mine the stuff make SURE they don't mine too much of it. Otherwise, its value is completely made up. They're worth a lot because people THINK they are. Gold at least has some value as a metail all by itself. This stuff is made of rocks".
So - high price baskets.