socalmom61's Journal

OK, I realize I watch far too much television especially between the hours of 1 and 4 in the morning when I'm pretending to be sleeping.

But I really think I've had it with cable television commercials.

People who can't sleep, who are overweight, who have wrinkles, unwanted body hair, or acne, debt troubles, or Heaven help us (male challenges) may find themselves particularly vulnerable to these commercials.

There's products that tell us we can eat what we want and still lost body fat.

There's actually an entity called "The Obesity Institute" Really? (There's not, I checked.)

Hydroxatone, Hydroxycut, Lipozene...It goes on.

There's one for Adrenal Fatigue.

There's one where you can take a little piece of sand paper and rub off your body hair.

They tell us that in order to raise customer awareness these products are FREE!!

What they don't tell us is that they take your credit card and bill you every month.

That's the really, really, little, fine print. 

There's commercials that tell us that gardening is too difficult and a waste of time, so we should order a strip of pre seeded stuff to just roll out and we'll soon have beautiful flowers without the agony of dealing with miserable little seeds and dirt.

(of course, in little tiny writing, we're told not to expect these blooms.) 

Chopping vegetables, making pasta, boiling eggs, grating cheese...

These are tasks that are simply too difficult for us, so we must call and order these amazing kitchen products designed to make our lives easier.

Have you seen these women struggling in the kitchen?  It's heartbreaking.

So many wonderful products made available to us just by merely picking up the phone and ordering.

 Being the skeptic that I am, I visited customer review pages and without fail, every single one of these companies had a whole bunch of unhappy people who posted saying they had tried to cancel and were not given refunds and were still being charged.

Not only were the products ineffective, but in some cases they had made them sick or hurt them.

So, when I hear some sincere looking pitch person smile and say, "Pick up the phone and call with in the next 5 minutes and we'll double the offer..." I finally hit the remote and roll over. 

All we really want is to know what we're buying and exactly how much it costs.

That's all.

OK, This has been bugging me for awhile now.

I knew I could count on you guys to hear me out.

I really need to get out of the house.

:)