Thursday, 27 August 2009

• Useless Products I Won't Spend One Cent On!

  
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  On my flight home from Los Angeles to New York, I was bored enough to go through the free magazines made by American Airlines. The Sky Mall magazine caught my eye as I began to browse through pages of products available for purchase through the company. I could even get an American Airlines credit card and buy lots of useless crap I would probably not spend a single penny on! Not only were there lots of things I would find no use for, but it was EXTREMELY overpriced. I took note of my Top 3 things that were useless and expensive!
  
  
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  Make soda. Save money. Clean planet. Repeat daily. Introducing the SodaStream home soda maker. Turn water into fresh, fizzy sparkling water or soda at the touch of a button. In less than 30 seconds, your water becomes great-tasting soda, customized to your preferred fizz and flavor level, with no clean-up, for about 20 cents per can. Regular flavors are made without high-fructose corn syrups, and diet flavors are sweetener without aspartame. No more lugging bottles and cans of soda back from the store, or stockpiling cases in your garage or pantry. Best of all, no more empty bottles to recycle or discard, so you'll be doing your self - and the planet - a giant favor. Lets see. In my personal opinion, first of all, I hardly drink soda. Obviously this is no use for me. Second of all, although it is interesting to make my own flavors, how many times could you possibly make soda? Lastly, I don't think soda bottles or cans are THAT heavy that I'd need my own soda machine that would take up a huge chunk of my already cluttered kitchen. Price: $129.99. Or 129 bottles of water at my local subway station. Swim Current Generator: The ExerSwim Portable Swim Current Generator is a portable swim current generator, designed for meaningful exercise. You get a powerful aquatic workout when you swim against the current. And you can swim against a smooth, strong, wide current in the privacy of your own pool! Purchase your ExerSwim Portable Swim Current Generator today and turn your standard pool into an endless pool! Besides the fact that I can't swim, nor do I own a pool, I find the Swim Current Generator a bad bang for your buck. I guess its kind of nifty to swim against the current, but I can find lots of more streneous and cheaper alternatives for meaningful excercise. Couldn't you just go to your local pool or YMCA or swim in the beautiful Ocean for free? Well, maybe not New York's ocean, I'd opt for the aquatic beauty of Hawaii's Pacfic Ocean. Actually, save your money on the Swim Current Generator, and you can book multiple round trip flights to Hawaii and swim there! Price: $3,695-$3,995, Or what is left of one of my many student loans. Chilled Shot Machine: Nothing goes down smoother than an ice-cold shot of your favorite liquor. Treat yourself with this hassle-free fill-and-pour system that virtually eliminates spills and features LED illumination for an eye-catching bottle display. Simply attach your bottle of choice and let the liquor drop to a temperature colder than ice for a chilly -5 degree F taste sensation. Okay, I can actually make good use of this if it wasn't so expensive. I enjoy cold shots. But you know what else I can do? Just stick a bottle of Malibu Rum in the freezer. I just save a whole bunch of money by just using my freezer. I don't know if it is exactly -5 degrees in my freezer, but I'm sure it will go down easy anyway. Price: $149.99 or The price of my Japanese hair straightening (Which will last 6 months!) If you're ever on a plane, check out the in flight mall magazines. There are even more ridiculously expensive products! Do yourself a favor and save almost $5000 by not getting these crazy items! Have you bought anything from the in flight magazines? What are some crazy expensive items you've come across?

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