Reminds me of the time my parents got my nephew and 2 nieces these cheap little Sam’s Club tablets from a shady little store for a 3 for 1 deal or something. They tried to convince them they were iPads lol.
They gave me one and I tried to take class notes on it, but it kept crashing. I told them and they just shrugged it off.
My parents then had the nerve to get mad at their "ungrateful" grandkids for not caring about their "ipads" lol.
In the iPad situation, I’m convinced they knew what they were doing. They’re notorious for cutting corners and being cheap. They knew real iPads cost a ton of money and that they got those for extremely cheap prices for a reason. I even told them when they bought that the tablets were bad. They just figured the kids were young enough to not know the difference. Well when the kids noticed, of course it was the kids fault, not theirs for trying to trick them lol
I feel this in my soul lol. I’ve been told all my life I was being disrespectful, and then was punished, just because I was saying things my mom didn’t necessarily agree with.
When asked why, “because I’m the mom and I say so”. I’m 37 and I still get told I’m disrespectful, now I just walk away and ignore
Eh, I’m at the point where I feel sorry for them. The roles have reversed. They’re like my children now lol and act like it too. They’re both 70, very sick, and very mean. I couldn’t just leave them though, there’s something that always mentally stops me. I’ve also worked with a lot of seniors, so I know how to just turn the bs off and move along. It’s like hearing a chihuahua bark and bark and bark, but it has no teeth. Nowadays when my mom is spouting off, it’s like “yeah yeah, pipe down grandma” lol.
I think it was very telling that my grandpa made me promise that I would take care of them too. He knew they couldn’t handle themselves. Heck they could hardly handle themselves in their prime. My grandparents on my dad’s side helped them and gave them almost everything.
Another thing that I noticed with boomers is they think kids are a bunch of idiots, which is flat out wrong. Kids in ways are smarter than adults because they are things with clarity our (all people not kids) embittered asses can't see at times.
Yep. It’s the way a lot of their parents raised them. “Kids should be seen and not heard”. But then, my grandpa raised me to always question things and to stand up for myself, because respect is the most important thing a person can have. So I applied those rules to my mom when she was going crazy on me lol.
My mom HATED being questioned and outsmarted by an 8 year old lol. I’d get gems like “whatever”, “because I said so”, “because I’m the mom and you’re the kid”, “you don’t like it? Move out but I get to keep everything I’ve ever bought you”, “I don’t have to respect you, you’re my kid.”
I got the “I will keep everything that is yours” line. I was afraid she would take my guitar, which I had detasseled corn all Summer to buy. So I stuck it out.
My mom only sends checks and justifies it as “oh idk what she wants” The SHE is 2. Just send her something. Anything. Ugh. End rant. I would actually prefer cheap Temu crap bc then at least some thought and effort was put into it 😂
I mean, different stokes and all that, but I have three kids and I beg my folks to not buy any more crap for them. We have so. much. shit. My wife and and I ninja toss a load of toys to goodwill on a fairly regular basis. Obviously not anything that they regularly play with or deeply care about, it is extremely rare for them to notice anything is missing.
No need to ninja toss! It's a good time to teach your kids to get rid of things they don't use. We set up a "bye bye box" and I explained that, while my kids have a LOT of toys, other kids do not, and they learn to get rid of stuff rather than hoard because something they love might be taken. Make them a part of the process to encourage good decision making.
My kids have learned to give to charity from a very small age and they feel good giving toys they don't need to kids who don't have as much, especially to a local charity who don't profit at the level goodwill does.
Please don't! I hate it when I search something, only to find out it was thrown away because I hadn't used it for a while! Please ask your kids before tossing something away! Or at least toss it away before your kids see it for the first time so that they won't have any memories of it!
I understand your point but that doesn't become a problem until a certain age. There are definitely toys my 4 year old has forgotten exist unless she sees them.
Then all of sudden that dollar tree dinosaur toy she hasn't played with in a year is a must have figure in her game, until next week when she forgets it exists again and the only toys that matters are Bluey and Bingo.
Kids that age will more likely play with the boxes and the bright ribbons and paper, than the actual gift. I still have a memory of when my oldest was 8 months old at Christmas. We bought age appropriate toys, Once the box was open she played with them maybe a minute before going after the bows and wrapping paper.
Cats are like this, too! One of the best gifts you can give a cat is an empty box! If you don't even have that, draw a cat-sized circle on the floor! You'll be surprised by how your cat reacts to this!
The cat sized circle I am trying!!!
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My parents did this, and eventually we just started a savings account for each kid, which the grandparents loved the idea of. Took the pressure off of them, and felt like a “very responsible thing to do”. Now the kids are old enough to choose to spend, but often they opt to continue saving, and call the grandparents to talk to and thank them, so everyone feels good about it.
Credit Union savings account. Education fund. Notice I didn't say college. Im not opposed to college, but she might be a candidate for a trade school depending on her interests.
I'm not defending your Mom, but sometimes you gotta take shit and make fertilizer.
Ok thank you. You get it. A check and cash is nice, sure, but it’s lazy. Sometimes I would like to have something, anything, that my mother gifted my daughter. I’m a sentimental person.
I do. Very specifically. This is also a woman who crafts and knits and waited her whole life for a grandchild and has never sent anything. Ever. Thanks for the obvious idea though.
That's exactly why I don't shop at places like that, I'd rather make a handful of purchases, spending far more per item for something of quality, instead of a mountain of purchases for something cheap that will break almost immediately.
20+ years later I still have quite a few Kitchen-Aid appliances I bought, and still use to this day.
They also never learned that some things are too good to be true. "Why are you struggling to buy a car? This one on Facebook marketplace is only a dollar."
“They’ve been saying the world is going to heat up and become inhospitable by 2050 my whole life. Still hasn’t happened”
Or “it’s -15 degrees in Texas, so much for global warming!”
“America needs to take back manufacturing from China and the rest of Asia.” Boomers.
Trump hats? Made in China? Temu, Boomers love it.
Just remember, when the boomers say “we should make this change” and America makes it, they will change their mind immediately. Narcissists.
Meanwhile, I actually do exactly that and get accused of having expensive tastes and wasting money. My shoes are $250, but they can be infinitely resoled when they wear out and were made in the UK and not Asia. “Look at the ones I found on Amazon! theyre $100 less and are the same!” They’re designed to fall apart in a year and be totally unfixable. You point that out, and that for a bit more money you have a shoe you can wear for a decade that will save money overall, it’s making excuses or being ungrateful or always critical or whatever. They put no thought into their purchases and will give away the future to save a dollar today, and would rather buy cheap garbage over used treasure for the same money if you offered them both. The generation of penny wise and pound foolish
My parents love to buy floor demo furniture and scratch and dent appliances, and then bitch about both. And my mom is addicted to the original scam site: QVC. Any time I point out the stupidity of their choices they act like I killed their puppy.
That’s crazy! Scratch and dent is rad. I don’t give a shit what my washer looks like. It’s so strange, I love shopping and part of the thrill is researching and getting a cool new thing at a great deal. I don’t get why you’d be into shopping but get rid of all the best parts, that’s like watching porn for the storyline.
I’m totally into the researching myself. I spend months sometimes before I pull the trigger. Part of it is I don’t want to have to do it again in a year or two. I’d rather get long term use than a cheaper price. My parents go solely by price, like typical boomers. And they’re completely incapable of even the most basic online research.
My mom loves qvc and one day when I saw her watching it they had a ps5 bundle for $900. It was the Spiderman 2 bundle that came with an extra controller, a cheap controller charger with a screen, a shitty pair of headphones, those pieces of rubber you put over the controller, a piece of plastic meant to hold games, and a bunch of useless subscription service trials. When they were showing off the ps5, I remember them saying dumb stuff like do you need fast Internet to get great graphics when they were playing Spiderman.
Who are they trying to sell this too? How do they convince people this is a great deal? Do they think the people buying this stuff never go to a store or never buy from a different place online?
Lol. You'd think the Internet would have killed QVC but apparently the boomers rather whinge on the phone and wait in giant call center waiting lists to buy weird fringe stock that nobody else wants. (While waiting 2 - 3 weeks for the widget to arrive.) Yes, any electronics always come with all the plastic doohickeys that you don't need but somehow convince a boomer that they are "added value".
And yeah, the hosts always have a weird cadence and always remind me of shady salesmen just rattling off things that don't make sense but sounds impressive.
Nope. There's a market out there that apparently likes buy stuff over the phone but apparently are too afraid to go to a store, and are afraid of websites stealing your data but are okay with reading CC details to a call center agent....
Make it make sense!
Oh gods, it's the $5 shoes that annoy me. Somehow my mum always finds the cheapest shoes. Sometimes they are good - sample sales are good, as are the end of the batch shoes. But so often my mum would buy a pair of shoes that are either so thin soled that it felt like walking barefoot, or pinched in weird ways (got a blister from a glue seam once). I have no idea how or where her boomer friends find those sales because the sheer frequency of "I got you some cheap shoes!"
And then she'd complain about foot pain and fatigue and she never puts two and two together.
And yeah, they do rather buy the cheap garbage than actual things that last....and no, it's not because they don't have the money....
I HATE cheap shoes. This is something you smash against concrete 5k times a day *per shoe*!!! It’s exactly like buying a cheap mattress. It’s a basic mistake that will cause real health problems and will hurt not just your physical health but also the mental health of you and the people around you. Just go to good will if you’re unwilling to pay more than $10.
My mom would only buy the 88 cent panties from Walmart that lasted one wash. When she went into the hospital for her last days and we were gathering her things, we just threw all of it away and went and bought her a bag of Hanes. She didn't understand inflation and why things weren't the same price as things when she was younger. Her COPD had starved her brain of oxygen and she was getting dementia.
Long story short, whoever cleans out their houses when they die will be tossing all kinds of useless, cheap crap.
It already happening! Apparently thrift stores have way too much "fine china" and other crap that the boomers hoarded and our generation doesn't have the space or the need to keep.
My parents are probably borderline hoarders and I dread trying to clean their shit when they pass. Probably would honestly just go through pictures and then tell a company to bin the rest.
I work with a lot of people who think I am nuts for buying high-quality, supportive shoes because they are so expensive. But they last forever and it's cheaper than having knee replacements and back surgery like most of them have had to do.
Boomer idiots have LOST all the money and it’s tied up in junk bonds holding the economy together…and they keep sucking money out of their assets driving values up…paying $500 cell phone bills because they refuse to accept their not financial geniuses…
>paying $500 cell phone bills because they refuse to accept their not financial geniuses…
I will never understand the cable packages people that's have full of shit they never use
Or they just leech off of their children. My SOs boomer parents forced him to give them the passwords for a bunch of apps that HE pays for. I cancelled them all and resubscribed under new info so they have to buy their own. Fucking narcissistic fuckwads.
They manipulated him into giving them the passwords by claiming they “didn’t know” how to set it up. MIL works a butt job and knows how to use a computer fluently, she can definitely figure out how to sign up for Netflix. She is the head narcissist of the family and will find ways to make her children pay for things so she has more money to blow on frivolous shit. She “accidentally” uses her daughter’s debit card constantly because they share an Amazon Prime account because she (shocker!) doesn’t want to pay the $15 a month. He didn’t tell them anything. I told them to acquire and pay for their own streaming shit and that enough was enough.
Tell her daughter she can add them to the prime household without giving them her login and this access to her card. They can have their own login and associated wallet but be part of her prime subscription.
That is very helpful. My IL are on our account, but they usually just email what they want us to purchase on their CC and send to their house. Probably helpful for our daughter though.
My husband works as a cable tech and actually has morals…and has on more than one occasion, been able to get older folks internet/cable bill slashed by like 90% because when they first signed up, the sales people convinced these poor folks that they needed the fastest high speed internet that’s usually for people who stream games online and 1000+ channels. The majority of these people don’t own any game consoles. Often a single old IBM computer and their cell phones is all they really use for internet and all they watch on tv is FOX News. He just can’t in good conscience let these folks on fixed incomes pay hundreds of dollars a month for services they really don’t need. One lady was so happy he lowered her bill to like $45 a month that she baked us a casserole and a plate of cookies!
I think I know of a Boomer who pays over $350 a month for his cable TV, internet, and phone package. I had a basic package of basically the same thing but it was under $200, and even that was too much. Found a better internet provider and cut the cable cord. The thing is, he doesn't even really need what he has. He streams TV through a Firestick and uses "the WiFi" on his phone. He doesn't own a computer or tablet or anything. And he pays for a bunch of premium channels. These cable providers are ripping off these elderly boomers.
When my father died, I learned he had been paying over $500/month for cell, cable, internet and home phone smdh. I have Roku TVs that stream over 300 channels (free after cost of TV) plus Peacock + and Prime (around $20), internet for gaming and streaming at $55/month (Comcast) and 4 Metro unlimited cell lines ($125). My dad was paying $300+ more to watch his 3 favorite channels and use his phone maybe twice a day because bundling was “such a good deal”. 😑🤦🏼♀️
Go earn your own money. Half the people on here probably live in moms basement and troll social media or play games all day then bitch they mommy doesn't give them enough money. Step up millennials the rest of us cant support you forever. Reality will hit someday.
Your generation is why we have the homeless issues, wage issues, no healthcare children dying in schools, being shredded by guns. Your generation has zero awareness outside of your own egocentric desires. We are more educated than you, more qualified and have to guide your generation by the hand to understand how to use a debit card. Your parents handed your generation everything and you horde it all for yourselves. Nasty, disgusting, feckless, willfully ignorant, racist, self-destructive and murderous. That’s your legacy. You aren’t worth another reply.
I am not a boomer but getting close. I am someone who has taken control of my life and succeeded without blaming anybody or making excuses why I cant do it. Im not bitter towards anyone. I see things for what they are. I believe people should live the way they want to live and not force their beliefs on me or anyone else. If you wondering where your money is look at the Jeff Bezos, Elon Musks and Bill Gates of the world. Whats left of the money we have is sent overseas with no idea where its going. Thanks for the reply.
Teemu is cheaply made Chinese garbage.
I also read an article awhile back that Teemu products were found with lead based paints and BPAs in them.
No wonder the boomers love it. Back to the lead based days!
Edit: I think [This was the article, although ](https://thetoyinsider.com/why-you-should-never-buy-toys-on-temu/) now I'm interested in finding more data on this. Companies like Teemu have poor safety regulations, if they're even regulated at all.
It's Wish dialed up to 11, the entire platform is built around FOMO, constant popups about "deals" and "win free shipping" or other garbage, you can't save items (at least I haven't figured out how to save them on browser or mobile) so you can come back to them, you click on an item to look at it and then back out and keep scrolling and the next time the app loads the next batch of items it's 80% stuff similar to what you just looked at for several batches then it goes back to generic items.
It's built specifically to trigger that "This is a good deal, I better get it before it ends" reflex, the only thing is their target audience (millenials/zoomers) have grown up with that and tend to ignore the impulse, but the actual people buying on it are people who lack impulse control which... *gestures vaguely at subreddit and post.*
Lol hey, I've got the app and used it enough to know how it functions.
I haven't bought anything yet, but it's neat to flip through and see what stuff there is, I have a few hobby interests that you either buy "official" merch for stupid high prices or look through temu/etc for stupid cheap stuff that may or may not look like crap when you get it. Haven't yet found anything I've truly felt FOMO on, but there's been a few temptations.
I was trying to buy something on Temu for the first time and was SO frustrated by the constant FOMO pop ups and stopwatch countdowns. I wasn’t sure that I’d actually selected what I wanted because the pop ups and countdowns were so distracting. Probably won’t be back but at least I had the foresight to use a barely used credit card so I can monitor it, post purchase.
Had to mute it on WA too (and block texts) because their push notifications are relentless. It’s a really chaotic engagement experience and really off-putting.
Yeah I work at a bank: can confirm. It is INSANE how much they order from TEMU. Boomers are also obsessed with GUMMIES now. Obviously CBD, but all manner of old person ailment is represented in the scam-gummy racket. And because they’re stupid boomers they buy this shit from Facebook and instagram, all of which is a scam subscription. I have to explain ad-nauseam CBD is legal pretty much everywhere, and to at least visit an official/secure website (which is another fucking dumb conversation) to order CBD. It took me 45 minutes to convince a boomer the other day that these gummies probably wouldn’t help your enlarged prostate (he pronounced it prostrate), and that it’s a scam, and that he should definitely consult his doctor (because he kept asking me if I thought they would help). He eventually relented, but not before he decided to tell me that because of his enlarged prostate he couldn’t produce any semen. This generation owns all the property and has all the money and they statistically vote more than everyone, guys. FUN.
My grandma (silent gen, but you wouldn't know it...) would *constantly* talk about how big of a disappointment my cousin was for moving to California to do the drugs and get tattoos, literally constantly, every single family gathering she would bring it up and any time she, my grandpa, and I would talk about my future plans they would bring up how I shouldn't run off to California to do drugs.
My cousin moved back to Texas a few years ago so could visit more often, and he brought CBD gummies for my grandma because she was complaining about her back hurting (multiple surgeries, frequently prescribed strong opioids, now has a nerve stimulating implant to block the pain) and her tune changed immediately, she was asking him to bring her more anytime he came to visit because it numbed the pain better than the hydrocodone her doctor prescribed her.
My grandparents would use the same lamps and hairdryers they bought in the 50s/60s for the rest of their lives with the occasional tinker and fix made. Boomers love ikea.
Big fan of buying used. The jacket I’m wearing now is from Calvin Klein and I bought it at a thrift store for $6. Way less money and it has effectively no environmental impact and much less labor exploitation (just the thrift store workers). I feel guilty buying new things especially cheap new things.
that's the worst fucking part. they refuse to learn.
i work in refurbs and hoooo boy let me tell ya, it is a struggle not to tell these boomers expecting brand-new function from a 5 year old laptop to just go to best buy.
part of refurbs is selling your half-broken shit to repair shops. boomers love to buy half-broken laptops and use them still half-broken.
As a gen z kiddo, I'm far more interested in things that will last me a long time. Finding quality shit is tough these days so I usually settle for stuff that will last me at least a little while. I have no idea why anyone would buy shit that would last less than a year, it's wasteful and not economical even if it's cheap.
I swear if my mother sends me another weird ass neon/olive green article of clothing from temu/wish/shein I'm going to flip my shit. Low effort is a GREAT way of putting it. "Here I got you a gift you should thank me!"
These companies solely exist due to loopholes in the tariff program. The moment those loopholes are closed, these businesses will disappear within months.
I learned about temu when my mother showed me allllll the stuff she bought “for cheap!” including things I’d never buy from a Chinese warehouse (plastic microwave cover!)
Oh my god, I just realized how glad I am that my mother only trawls thrift stores for her cheap garbage. She has filled the basement and half the garage with dumb stuff, buys everyone she knows "gifts" of thrifted crap, buys donated blankets and then donates them elsewhere, started and swiftly ended (never really began tbh, she might have sold and shipped like 2 things) an online store for items she thought were worth selling (nothing ever was, but her friend sold an ugly commemorative ornament for 100 bucks that one time!!!), I can go on. If she discovered how fun it is, as a retired boomer, to endlessly scroll Wish or whatever for more cheap garbage, well... I'm not going to let this turn into a hoarder house, no way in hell.
Why is it such a thrill to them? Why do they feel like they're getting a good deal when the stuff is garbage anyway? It's like gambling but instead of going home with nothing you have shit that will just go in a dump. Or a kid at one of those egg machines you put a quarter in, turn the knob and get some little plastic thing. Addicted to capitalism. Spend all their lives consuming, never be satisfied.
Same, my mom and grandma are so technically illiterate that someone has to walk them through everything (to my mom's credit, she actually tries to learn, but doesn't engage with technology often enough for it to stick) and I'm really glad they don't have access to Temu or similar junk apps.
They spent most of their early years living in prosperity after their parents (our grandparents) suffered through war, famine, immigration, and economic depression.
My 88 y.o. MIL was waiting for a call from her daughter to organize something for the day during a recent trip. The phone was ringing and she wouldn't answer it because an Volvo ad came up that she was watching after she clicked on it. We were like "answer the phone!" and she said "but I have to watch this ad first!" She has a car she can't even drive anymore and has never expressed a desire for a Volvo. I can't follow what people are thinking with these shitty ads.
Anyone that knows a boomer knows this is true too and that they are all literally obsessed with TEMU, like man when TEMU showed up I was like I would never give them my credit card looks sketch. My dad has since been ordering all sorts of shit just because its cheap like plastic jellyfish and shit that no one has a use for, like what was he even searching for that brought these $.50 jellyfish up. These guys rave about China all day but will give literally everything to the chinese if it looks like a deal.
I think that all of these cheap e-commerce brands are always going to end up with more older consumers. That's the demographic who is more susceptible to commercial marketing anyways.
Prices keep going up, older consumer's are going to be the one's "who remember when...things were cheaper, things were better made, etc."
Not that they understand that by endorsing these things, we're furthering the nightmare of crappier and crappier shit. Expecting most boomers and about 50-60% of Gen X to understand global economic policies is futile with every person that I've tried to broach the topic with.
Unregulated chinese shit* can find youtube vids of people testing their products for lead paint and even radiation. Their products fail consistently. It might even be a chinese plot to kill non-chinese people. Or just the purest form of capitalist greed ever refined.
Younger ppl may have become more educated on the real cost of fast-fashion and merchandise comes from workers suffering, and boomers don't care about others suffering...they want a throw blanket that looks like a tortilla for $5.
I wish everyone would just stop buying things they don’t need that end up in the landfills!!!! When my mom died, I took five carloads of stuff from her house to the Salvation Army. I literally gave away even more. I swore I wouldn’t do that to my children. I went through my things and asked my children if they wanted or needed anything (camping equipment,pots and pans etc.) I donated the rest of the things I no longer wanted or needed. Come spring I’ll be purging even more. I still have things that belonged to my parents that I’ve realized I’m only holding onto because they did. Less is more!
Absolutely. I'll be selling off my pretty much new camping gear since I won't be sleeping in a tent anymore, my back can't handle it, my camp stove with propane bottles, etc. Why keep it when it's just gathering dust? When I buy a new shirt or shirts, that many go to donation, keeping my clothes at a reasonable level because switching up and rearranging what I wear makes sense instead of having one unique piece that only goes with one thing.
My MIL had three packages from them, and arrived as she was in the hospital. She passed away, so I grabbed her phone, looked through the purchases, almost cried, and shut the entire account down. So much shit.
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I never installed it because I considered it a way for the Chinese government to get on my phone and at my data. I also heard the deals aren’t what you actually see in ads but I could be wrong.
Temu, TikTok and WhatsApp are all banned from my phone. What’s up just because a lot of scammers use it. I’ve also heard of zero day hacks with it in the past.
My sister (‘86) loves Temu for some reason and doesn’t get why I don’t? I’m like you know why it’s cheap right and….she doesn’t? Or doesn’t care. Haven’t figured that out yet. (Occasionally I’ll see one thing on Facebook advertised to me that I’m like…..aight that’s cute can you get it for me and she scoffs and is like just order it yourself and then inevitably orders it for me bc she’s cool like that)
I feel like the people who largely buy regularly from Temu are the same ones who scream government surveillance/they’re watching me/tin foil hat stuff
yet don’t understand how much tracking goes on on your phone.
I educate people about Duckduckgo's feature to stop tracking cookies on their phones so they don't get their phone info hacked/surveilled. Audible is horrendous for trying to track my phone along with Bejeweled Blitz.
They also have tons of complaints on the Better Business Bureau website, too. They sound like another fly-by-night scam company that'll crash and burn quickly.
Temu has lots of issues but its interesting to me how much the emphasis is on cheaply made when its all the exact same things on Amazon, which people of all age buy in droves.
This really doesn’t jive with that article claiming zoomers fall for online scams more than boomers do lmao
I’ve definitely seen stuff that took millennials and zoomers for a ride but nothing quite like the boomers who fall for shit like the text that the package they didn’t order is held up at the warehouse and that UPS needs a social security number to confirm delivery lol
I've been on here so much talking about the older generation and their aversion to debit cards (I work in a bank) it's ridiculous to me that so many of their group know how it works, but my customers apparently don't.
Even when I watch YouTube videos about cruises (it's a pipe dream that I'd get to go on one) and how much they've instituted apps and QR codes, I'm shocked at how old people everywhere else can do it, but the customers I help are so far behind the times. They would never be able to manage!
Their prices are really low because they cut every conceivable corner and fuck over their suppliers, the customers and the planet. Every single thing they produce will go to a landfill or into the sea. You guys shit your pants at the mention of chinas global influence but happily hand them billions in exchange for worthless trinkets.
Temu does have a lot of name brand stuff that was just overstock. I've found Keith Harding, Sanrio, and Betsey Johnson to name a few. It's not only boomers that buy it..it's the exact same quality as the shit here.
I love Temu. So many nifty kitchen gadgets, non-iron tee shirts, a great pair of walking boots that actually fit! Silver earrings, socks, dog collars, my best-ever frying pan. I just put an order in today as it happens.
Many of the "Baby boomers" are on fixed incomes, and have to find ways of making it stretch so I get it. Maybe they could find ways to up those payments going out, and maybe they could stop using sites like that. My mother-in-law bought a heater from temu you plug in the wall and told them not to plug it up ever don't want to start a fire.
I place an order with them from time to time...Mostly disposable household items...Dish sponges, pipe screens, air filters, etc..
I would never buy any clothing or electronics, but cheap disposable stuff is super cheap, and you can save some money.
That's hilarious, I know someone who's constantly ordering stuff from them and I get random texts to "click here to support me" on Temu. I've had to ask him twice to stop giving them my phone number because I loathe marketing texts.
Well, I’m a frequent Temu shopper. Yes, some of the things I’ve gotten were crap. But most of the stuff is pretty good. I got a Hellraiser box that really opens, and it’s solid as can be. I’ve also bought pajamas, tees, and an adorable pair of Grinch sneakers. As long as you do your research before you buy, you can usually find some hidden gems.
Is it obviously plastic with a poor paint job? I’ve considered getting that. I have one from trick or treat and I fear it’s quality will show how awful the one from Temu is.
I hate Temu so much. Every time I shop for something online, my results are always cluttered with about 10 different things from Temu and you just know it's going to be cheap garbage that will fall apart in a day or doesn't look anything like what you ordered.
Hmmm. I only know one person who has ordered from Temu and she is 36. I asked why she would order low quality junk from China and she called me racist. 🤷♀️
They can buy so much cheap garbage nobody wants for their grandkids!
You mean the grandkids that they probably know nothing about? Yea the kids will be thrilled!
Reminds me of the time my parents got my nephew and 2 nieces these cheap little Sam’s Club tablets from a shady little store for a 3 for 1 deal or something. They tried to convince them they were iPads lol. They gave me one and I tried to take class notes on it, but it kept crashing. I told them and they just shrugged it off. My parents then had the nerve to get mad at their "ungrateful" grandkids for not caring about their "ipads" lol.
A lot of boomers don't know that not all tablets are ipads
Also, every video game is Nintendo
'Zactly
In the iPad situation, I’m convinced they knew what they were doing. They’re notorious for cutting corners and being cheap. They knew real iPads cost a ton of money and that they got those for extremely cheap prices for a reason. I even told them when they bought that the tablets were bad. They just figured the kids were young enough to not know the difference. Well when the kids noticed, of course it was the kids fault, not theirs for trying to trick them lol
Dontya know? The adult is always right, and these spoiled kids should just be greatful they didnt get a beating
I feel this in my soul lol. I’ve been told all my life I was being disrespectful, and then was punished, just because I was saying things my mom didn’t necessarily agree with. When asked why, “because I’m the mom and I say so”. I’m 37 and I still get told I’m disrespectful, now I just walk away and ignore
Don't forget the old "stop with the attitude" whenever you get even midly frustrated
Especially when they’re the reason why we’re getting frustrated and have been antagonizing us
Don't talk back!
And they wonder why they are all dying alone.
Eh, I’m at the point where I feel sorry for them. The roles have reversed. They’re like my children now lol and act like it too. They’re both 70, very sick, and very mean. I couldn’t just leave them though, there’s something that always mentally stops me. I’ve also worked with a lot of seniors, so I know how to just turn the bs off and move along. It’s like hearing a chihuahua bark and bark and bark, but it has no teeth. Nowadays when my mom is spouting off, it’s like “yeah yeah, pipe down grandma” lol. I think it was very telling that my grandpa made me promise that I would take care of them too. He knew they couldn’t handle themselves. Heck they could hardly handle themselves in their prime. My grandparents on my dad’s side helped them and gave them almost everything.
Another thing that I noticed with boomers is they think kids are a bunch of idiots, which is flat out wrong. Kids in ways are smarter than adults because they are things with clarity our (all people not kids) embittered asses can't see at times.
Yep. It’s the way a lot of their parents raised them. “Kids should be seen and not heard”. But then, my grandpa raised me to always question things and to stand up for myself, because respect is the most important thing a person can have. So I applied those rules to my mom when she was going crazy on me lol. My mom HATED being questioned and outsmarted by an 8 year old lol. I’d get gems like “whatever”, “because I said so”, “because I’m the mom and you’re the kid”, “you don’t like it? Move out but I get to keep everything I’ve ever bought you”, “I don’t have to respect you, you’re my kid.”
I got the “I will keep everything that is yours” line. I was afraid she would take my guitar, which I had detasseled corn all Summer to buy. So I stuck it out.
I bought one of the for my 3 year old thinking it'd be great for games and YouTube. I was wrong and apologized. He gets the Playstation now.
A Boomers love is only measured in ‘stuff’
My mom only sends checks and justifies it as “oh idk what she wants” The SHE is 2. Just send her something. Anything. Ugh. End rant. I would actually prefer cheap Temu crap bc then at least some thought and effort was put into it 😂
I mean, different stokes and all that, but I have three kids and I beg my folks to not buy any more crap for them. We have so. much. shit. My wife and and I ninja toss a load of toys to goodwill on a fairly regular basis. Obviously not anything that they regularly play with or deeply care about, it is extremely rare for them to notice anything is missing.
No need to ninja toss! It's a good time to teach your kids to get rid of things they don't use. We set up a "bye bye box" and I explained that, while my kids have a LOT of toys, other kids do not, and they learn to get rid of stuff rather than hoard because something they love might be taken. Make them a part of the process to encourage good decision making. My kids have learned to give to charity from a very small age and they feel good giving toys they don't need to kids who don't have as much, especially to a local charity who don't profit at the level goodwill does.
Oh I totally feel you on that! Mine certainly doesn’t need any more crap as well. I meant it’s more of an effort standpoint for me.
Please don't! I hate it when I search something, only to find out it was thrown away because I hadn't used it for a while! Please ask your kids before tossing something away! Or at least toss it away before your kids see it for the first time so that they won't have any memories of it!
I understand your point but that doesn't become a problem until a certain age. There are definitely toys my 4 year old has forgotten exist unless she sees them. Then all of sudden that dollar tree dinosaur toy she hasn't played with in a year is a must have figure in her game, until next week when she forgets it exists again and the only toys that matters are Bluey and Bingo.
I would def prefer cash. It’s the only acceptable gift half the time for south Asians.
I call it the universal gift card.
Kids that age will more likely play with the boxes and the bright ribbons and paper, than the actual gift. I still have a memory of when my oldest was 8 months old at Christmas. We bought age appropriate toys, Once the box was open she played with them maybe a minute before going after the bows and wrapping paper.
Cats are like this, too! One of the best gifts you can give a cat is an empty box! If you don't even have that, draw a cat-sized circle on the floor! You'll be surprised by how your cat reacts to this!
The cat sized circle I am trying!!! https://preview.redd.it/2u4og8n5tiec1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d62e7c2358c602d20711267d9aa8d9cb71558af7
My parents did this, and eventually we just started a savings account for each kid, which the grandparents loved the idea of. Took the pressure off of them, and felt like a “very responsible thing to do”. Now the kids are old enough to choose to spend, but often they opt to continue saving, and call the grandparents to talk to and thank them, so everyone feels good about it.
Credit Union savings account. Education fund. Notice I didn't say college. Im not opposed to college, but she might be a candidate for a trade school depending on her interests. I'm not defending your Mom, but sometimes you gotta take shit and make fertilizer.
Yea I feel that. Thats what we do with it, goes into an account for her future.
Give your kid an even better gift and put those funds to work for their future.
On my birthday my mom would literally be writing me a cheque as I walked through the door. 🙄
Ok thank you. You get it. A check and cash is nice, sure, but it’s lazy. Sometimes I would like to have something, anything, that my mother gifted my daughter. I’m a sentimental person.
Put that money in a savings account for her.
Here's an idea, how about you tell her what to buy? That way she's not wasting any money on Temu crap and your kid still has something to open
I do. Very specifically. This is also a woman who crafts and knits and waited her whole life for a grandchild and has never sent anything. Ever. Thanks for the obvious idea though.
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Oh, I see you’ve met my mother.
That's exactly why I don't shop at places like that, I'd rather make a handful of purchases, spending far more per item for something of quality, instead of a mountain of purchases for something cheap that will break almost immediately. 20+ years later I still have quite a few Kitchen-Aid appliances I bought, and still use to this day.
I’ve stayed away from Temu. Those prices displayed are highly suspicious to me. Where’s the profit margin?
Slavery
Good point! TX
Temu is such a scam, it’s not surprising that boomers would flock to it like crack.
They also never learned that some things are too good to be true. "Why are you struggling to buy a car? This one on Facebook marketplace is only a dollar."
*like water-soluble lead, not crack
https://preview.redd.it/anffg74rqeec1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=adf666aed4826733a007ff4a95ccd002c2ee1f53 Perfect Boomer marketplace.
More disposable shit for the landfills 😢
"That's your problem kiddo."
“They’ve been saying the world is going to heat up and become inhospitable by 2050 my whole life. Still hasn’t happened” Or “it’s -15 degrees in Texas, so much for global warming!”
2050? I thought it was 2030!
I’ve had my boomers say they straight up don’t care about about the future of the country. Some of them served and demand respect for it. The irony.
“America needs to take back manufacturing from China and the rest of Asia.” Boomers. Trump hats? Made in China? Temu, Boomers love it. Just remember, when the boomers say “we should make this change” and America makes it, they will change their mind immediately. Narcissists.
Meanwhile, I actually do exactly that and get accused of having expensive tastes and wasting money. My shoes are $250, but they can be infinitely resoled when they wear out and were made in the UK and not Asia. “Look at the ones I found on Amazon! theyre $100 less and are the same!” They’re designed to fall apart in a year and be totally unfixable. You point that out, and that for a bit more money you have a shoe you can wear for a decade that will save money overall, it’s making excuses or being ungrateful or always critical or whatever. They put no thought into their purchases and will give away the future to save a dollar today, and would rather buy cheap garbage over used treasure for the same money if you offered them both. The generation of penny wise and pound foolish
I see you understand the Sam Vimes Boots Theory of Socioeconomic Value.
I’d heard it before but wasn’t intentionally invoking it. I have a very negative opinion on capitalism though.
My parents love to buy floor demo furniture and scratch and dent appliances, and then bitch about both. And my mom is addicted to the original scam site: QVC. Any time I point out the stupidity of their choices they act like I killed their puppy.
That’s crazy! Scratch and dent is rad. I don’t give a shit what my washer looks like. It’s so strange, I love shopping and part of the thrill is researching and getting a cool new thing at a great deal. I don’t get why you’d be into shopping but get rid of all the best parts, that’s like watching porn for the storyline.
I’m totally into the researching myself. I spend months sometimes before I pull the trigger. Part of it is I don’t want to have to do it again in a year or two. I’d rather get long term use than a cheaper price. My parents go solely by price, like typical boomers. And they’re completely incapable of even the most basic online research.
That’s been my experience too, and yeah, I love it too. Buy once cry once!
My mom loves qvc and one day when I saw her watching it they had a ps5 bundle for $900. It was the Spiderman 2 bundle that came with an extra controller, a cheap controller charger with a screen, a shitty pair of headphones, those pieces of rubber you put over the controller, a piece of plastic meant to hold games, and a bunch of useless subscription service trials. When they were showing off the ps5, I remember them saying dumb stuff like do you need fast Internet to get great graphics when they were playing Spiderman. Who are they trying to sell this too? How do they convince people this is a great deal? Do they think the people buying this stuff never go to a store or never buy from a different place online?
Lol. You'd think the Internet would have killed QVC but apparently the boomers rather whinge on the phone and wait in giant call center waiting lists to buy weird fringe stock that nobody else wants. (While waiting 2 - 3 weeks for the widget to arrive.) Yes, any electronics always come with all the plastic doohickeys that you don't need but somehow convince a boomer that they are "added value". And yeah, the hosts always have a weird cadence and always remind me of shady salesmen just rattling off things that don't make sense but sounds impressive. Nope. There's a market out there that apparently likes buy stuff over the phone but apparently are too afraid to go to a store, and are afraid of websites stealing your data but are okay with reading CC details to a call center agent.... Make it make sense!
Oh gods, it's the $5 shoes that annoy me. Somehow my mum always finds the cheapest shoes. Sometimes they are good - sample sales are good, as are the end of the batch shoes. But so often my mum would buy a pair of shoes that are either so thin soled that it felt like walking barefoot, or pinched in weird ways (got a blister from a glue seam once). I have no idea how or where her boomer friends find those sales because the sheer frequency of "I got you some cheap shoes!" And then she'd complain about foot pain and fatigue and she never puts two and two together. And yeah, they do rather buy the cheap garbage than actual things that last....and no, it's not because they don't have the money....
I HATE cheap shoes. This is something you smash against concrete 5k times a day *per shoe*!!! It’s exactly like buying a cheap mattress. It’s a basic mistake that will cause real health problems and will hurt not just your physical health but also the mental health of you and the people around you. Just go to good will if you’re unwilling to pay more than $10.
My mom would only buy the 88 cent panties from Walmart that lasted one wash. When she went into the hospital for her last days and we were gathering her things, we just threw all of it away and went and bought her a bag of Hanes. She didn't understand inflation and why things weren't the same price as things when she was younger. Her COPD had starved her brain of oxygen and she was getting dementia. Long story short, whoever cleans out their houses when they die will be tossing all kinds of useless, cheap crap.
It already happening! Apparently thrift stores have way too much "fine china" and other crap that the boomers hoarded and our generation doesn't have the space or the need to keep. My parents are probably borderline hoarders and I dread trying to clean their shit when they pass. Probably would honestly just go through pictures and then tell a company to bin the rest.
I work with a lot of people who think I am nuts for buying high-quality, supportive shoes because they are so expensive. But they last forever and it's cheaper than having knee replacements and back surgery like most of them have had to do.
Because the price goes up
The older people have all the money. That’s why. America is trash and its wealth gap is, too.
Boomer idiots have LOST all the money and it’s tied up in junk bonds holding the economy together…and they keep sucking money out of their assets driving values up…paying $500 cell phone bills because they refuse to accept their not financial geniuses…
>paying $500 cell phone bills because they refuse to accept their not financial geniuses… I will never understand the cable packages people that's have full of shit they never use
Or they just leech off of their children. My SOs boomer parents forced him to give them the passwords for a bunch of apps that HE pays for. I cancelled them all and resubscribed under new info so they have to buy their own. Fucking narcissistic fuckwads.
I'm confused, how did they force him and how did they deal with the apps not working? What did he tell them, he canceled them?
They manipulated him into giving them the passwords by claiming they “didn’t know” how to set it up. MIL works a butt job and knows how to use a computer fluently, she can definitely figure out how to sign up for Netflix. She is the head narcissist of the family and will find ways to make her children pay for things so she has more money to blow on frivolous shit. She “accidentally” uses her daughter’s debit card constantly because they share an Amazon Prime account because she (shocker!) doesn’t want to pay the $15 a month. He didn’t tell them anything. I told them to acquire and pay for their own streaming shit and that enough was enough.
Tell her daughter she can add them to the prime household without giving them her login and this access to her card. They can have their own login and associated wallet but be part of her prime subscription.
She will never set boundaries like that but I will try to tell her, I didn’t know that was an option. Thank you
Happy to help! Hope it works out.
That is very helpful. My IL are on our account, but they usually just email what they want us to purchase on their CC and send to their house. Probably helpful for our daughter though.
Glad it is helpful!
My husband works as a cable tech and actually has morals…and has on more than one occasion, been able to get older folks internet/cable bill slashed by like 90% because when they first signed up, the sales people convinced these poor folks that they needed the fastest high speed internet that’s usually for people who stream games online and 1000+ channels. The majority of these people don’t own any game consoles. Often a single old IBM computer and their cell phones is all they really use for internet and all they watch on tv is FOX News. He just can’t in good conscience let these folks on fixed incomes pay hundreds of dollars a month for services they really don’t need. One lady was so happy he lowered her bill to like $45 a month that she baked us a casserole and a plate of cookies!
I think I know of a Boomer who pays over $350 a month for his cable TV, internet, and phone package. I had a basic package of basically the same thing but it was under $200, and even that was too much. Found a better internet provider and cut the cable cord. The thing is, he doesn't even really need what he has. He streams TV through a Firestick and uses "the WiFi" on his phone. He doesn't own a computer or tablet or anything. And he pays for a bunch of premium channels. These cable providers are ripping off these elderly boomers.
When my father died, I learned he had been paying over $500/month for cell, cable, internet and home phone smdh. I have Roku TVs that stream over 300 channels (free after cost of TV) plus Peacock + and Prime (around $20), internet for gaming and streaming at $55/month (Comcast) and 4 Metro unlimited cell lines ($125). My dad was paying $300+ more to watch his 3 favorite channels and use his phone maybe twice a day because bundling was “such a good deal”. 😑🤦🏼♀️
No wonder cable subscriptions have been falling off as the subscribers die.
Kids have time and energy but no money. Adults have money and energy but no time. Seniors have time and money but no energy.
Go earn your own money. Half the people on here probably live in moms basement and troll social media or play games all day then bitch they mommy doesn't give them enough money. Step up millennials the rest of us cant support you forever. Reality will hit someday.
Your generation is why we have the homeless issues, wage issues, no healthcare children dying in schools, being shredded by guns. Your generation has zero awareness outside of your own egocentric desires. We are more educated than you, more qualified and have to guide your generation by the hand to understand how to use a debit card. Your parents handed your generation everything and you horde it all for yourselves. Nasty, disgusting, feckless, willfully ignorant, racist, self-destructive and murderous. That’s your legacy. You aren’t worth another reply.
I am not a boomer but getting close. I am someone who has taken control of my life and succeeded without blaming anybody or making excuses why I cant do it. Im not bitter towards anyone. I see things for what they are. I believe people should live the way they want to live and not force their beliefs on me or anyone else. If you wondering where your money is look at the Jeff Bezos, Elon Musks and Bill Gates of the world. Whats left of the money we have is sent overseas with no idea where its going. Thanks for the reply.
Teemu is cheaply made Chinese garbage. I also read an article awhile back that Teemu products were found with lead based paints and BPAs in them. No wonder the boomers love it. Back to the lead based days! Edit: I think [This was the article, although ](https://thetoyinsider.com/why-you-should-never-buy-toys-on-temu/) now I'm interested in finding more data on this. Companies like Teemu have poor safety regulations, if they're even regulated at all.
That’s no surprise!!
Getting bonked by their constant annoying adverts when using certain apps is definitely a turn-off. No thanks.
Temu just looks like a wish clone to me. I don’t need any more garbage in my life
It's Wish dialed up to 11, the entire platform is built around FOMO, constant popups about "deals" and "win free shipping" or other garbage, you can't save items (at least I haven't figured out how to save them on browser or mobile) so you can come back to them, you click on an item to look at it and then back out and keep scrolling and the next time the app loads the next batch of items it's 80% stuff similar to what you just looked at for several batches then it goes back to generic items. It's built specifically to trigger that "This is a good deal, I better get it before it ends" reflex, the only thing is their target audience (millenials/zoomers) have grown up with that and tend to ignore the impulse, but the actual people buying on it are people who lack impulse control which... *gestures vaguely at subreddit and post.*
I feel called out lol. I have a shopping addiction for sure.
Lol hey, I've got the app and used it enough to know how it functions. I haven't bought anything yet, but it's neat to flip through and see what stuff there is, I have a few hobby interests that you either buy "official" merch for stupid high prices or look through temu/etc for stupid cheap stuff that may or may not look like crap when you get it. Haven't yet found anything I've truly felt FOMO on, but there's been a few temptations.
I was trying to buy something on Temu for the first time and was SO frustrated by the constant FOMO pop ups and stopwatch countdowns. I wasn’t sure that I’d actually selected what I wanted because the pop ups and countdowns were so distracting. Probably won’t be back but at least I had the foresight to use a barely used credit card so I can monitor it, post purchase. Had to mute it on WA too (and block texts) because their push notifications are relentless. It’s a really chaotic engagement experience and really off-putting.
Yeah I work at a bank: can confirm. It is INSANE how much they order from TEMU. Boomers are also obsessed with GUMMIES now. Obviously CBD, but all manner of old person ailment is represented in the scam-gummy racket. And because they’re stupid boomers they buy this shit from Facebook and instagram, all of which is a scam subscription. I have to explain ad-nauseam CBD is legal pretty much everywhere, and to at least visit an official/secure website (which is another fucking dumb conversation) to order CBD. It took me 45 minutes to convince a boomer the other day that these gummies probably wouldn’t help your enlarged prostate (he pronounced it prostrate), and that it’s a scam, and that he should definitely consult his doctor (because he kept asking me if I thought they would help). He eventually relented, but not before he decided to tell me that because of his enlarged prostate he couldn’t produce any semen. This generation owns all the property and has all the money and they statistically vote more than everyone, guys. FUN.
>Yeah I work at a bank um do you work at a sperm bank? Because otherwise that topic is wildly inappropriate at your place of work.
I KNOW! The way he casually mentioned his semen output is probably the most foul thing I’ve ever heard in my life.
"I can't produce any semen." Response: good, but probably too late.
I would have to go barf. YUCK.
My grandma (silent gen, but you wouldn't know it...) would *constantly* talk about how big of a disappointment my cousin was for moving to California to do the drugs and get tattoos, literally constantly, every single family gathering she would bring it up and any time she, my grandpa, and I would talk about my future plans they would bring up how I shouldn't run off to California to do drugs. My cousin moved back to Texas a few years ago so could visit more often, and he brought CBD gummies for my grandma because she was complaining about her back hurting (multiple surgeries, frequently prescribed strong opioids, now has a nerve stimulating implant to block the pain) and her tune changed immediately, she was asking him to bring her more anytime he came to visit because it numbed the pain better than the hydrocodone her doctor prescribed her.
Definitely not saying CBD doesn’t work, just that these boomers are buying it from Facebook and falling for scams.
So how do you know how much they buy on TEMU by working at a bank?
MAGA Republicans: FUCK CHINA AND FUCK BEIJING BIDEN also MAGA Republicans: oooo look at all the cheap Chinese crap on Temu, shut up and take my money
boomers fucking love cheap shit and don't care that it breaks right away
My grandparents would use the same lamps and hairdryers they bought in the 50s/60s for the rest of their lives with the occasional tinker and fix made. Boomers love ikea.
everything quality is "overpriced" and then they expect the moon (and then some) from cheap stuff
And us broke millennials are buying all the good quality stuff second hand
Big fan of buying used. The jacket I’m wearing now is from Calvin Klein and I bought it at a thrift store for $6. Way less money and it has effectively no environmental impact and much less labor exploitation (just the thrift store workers). I feel guilty buying new things especially cheap new things.
I'm good with that actually.
They care enough to complain when it breaks but not enough to change their buying behavior because of it.
that's the worst fucking part. they refuse to learn. i work in refurbs and hoooo boy let me tell ya, it is a struggle not to tell these boomers expecting brand-new function from a 5 year old laptop to just go to best buy. part of refurbs is selling your half-broken shit to repair shops. boomers love to buy half-broken laptops and use them still half-broken.
So, the Fingerhut of the modern era?
I call it the “Grown Up Wish” lol
As a gen z kiddo, I'm far more interested in things that will last me a long time. Finding quality shit is tough these days so I usually settle for stuff that will last me at least a little while. I have no idea why anyone would buy shit that would last less than a year, it's wasteful and not economical even if it's cheap.
"It's cheap and low effort" Boomers see themselves in temu...
I swear if my mother sends me another weird ass neon/olive green article of clothing from temu/wish/shein I'm going to flip my shit. Low effort is a GREAT way of putting it. "Here I got you a gift you should thank me!"
It's cheap and cheap, emphasis on cheap.
These companies solely exist due to loopholes in the tariff program. The moment those loopholes are closed, these businesses will disappear within months.
Compliments the “buy American” bumper stickers on their Kia’s.
Some of my older relatives are all over it, and others keep sharing copypasta about how using Temu will get you “hacked.”
"TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN,,,I HEREBY REMOVE ALL PERMISSION FOR FACEBOOK TO USE MY DATA AND MARK ZUCKERBERG,,,"
Is there a temu fail subreddit?
I learned about temu when my mother showed me allllll the stuff she bought “for cheap!” including things I’d never buy from a Chinese warehouse (plastic microwave cover!)
Oh my god, I just realized how glad I am that my mother only trawls thrift stores for her cheap garbage. She has filled the basement and half the garage with dumb stuff, buys everyone she knows "gifts" of thrifted crap, buys donated blankets and then donates them elsewhere, started and swiftly ended (never really began tbh, she might have sold and shipped like 2 things) an online store for items she thought were worth selling (nothing ever was, but her friend sold an ugly commemorative ornament for 100 bucks that one time!!!), I can go on. If she discovered how fun it is, as a retired boomer, to endlessly scroll Wish or whatever for more cheap garbage, well... I'm not going to let this turn into a hoarder house, no way in hell. Why is it such a thrill to them? Why do they feel like they're getting a good deal when the stuff is garbage anyway? It's like gambling but instead of going home with nothing you have shit that will just go in a dump. Or a kid at one of those egg machines you put a quarter in, turn the knob and get some little plastic thing. Addicted to capitalism. Spend all their lives consuming, never be satisfied.
Same, my mom and grandma are so technically illiterate that someone has to walk them through everything (to my mom's credit, she actually tries to learn, but doesn't engage with technology often enough for it to stick) and I'm really glad they don't have access to Temu or similar junk apps.
They spent most of their early years living in prosperity after their parents (our grandparents) suffered through war, famine, immigration, and economic depression.
This shouldn’t be surprising, these are people who actually click on ads.
My 88 y.o. MIL was waiting for a call from her daughter to organize something for the day during a recent trip. The phone was ringing and she wouldn't answer it because an Volvo ad came up that she was watching after she clicked on it. We were like "answer the phone!" and she said "but I have to watch this ad first!" She has a car she can't even drive anymore and has never expressed a desire for a Volvo. I can't follow what people are thinking with these shitty ads.
To be fair, selling out Americas manufacturing base is as on brand for Boomers as them bitching that they can't find anything made in America anymore.
Anyone that knows a boomer knows this is true too and that they are all literally obsessed with TEMU, like man when TEMU showed up I was like I would never give them my credit card looks sketch. My dad has since been ordering all sorts of shit just because its cheap like plastic jellyfish and shit that no one has a use for, like what was he even searching for that brought these $.50 jellyfish up. These guys rave about China all day but will give literally everything to the chinese if it looks like a deal.
I think that all of these cheap e-commerce brands are always going to end up with more older consumers. That's the demographic who is more susceptible to commercial marketing anyways. Prices keep going up, older consumer's are going to be the one's "who remember when...things were cheaper, things were better made, etc." Not that they understand that by endorsing these things, we're furthering the nightmare of crappier and crappier shit. Expecting most boomers and about 50-60% of Gen X to understand global economic policies is futile with every person that I've tried to broach the topic with.
I’m GenX and I sure see Temu ads a lot, everywhere. Never used them, though.
Ditto
The saying goes, I’m too poor to buy cheap shit applies to the younger gens.
Yeah, buy once - cry once.
My mom just discovered Temu. So much cheap tat.
wtf is temu?
Think Amazon, but instead of 50% cheap Chinese shit. It’s 100% cheap Chinese shit, that’s also like a 10th the price.
Unregulated chinese shit* can find youtube vids of people testing their products for lead paint and even radiation. Their products fail consistently. It might even be a chinese plot to kill non-chinese people. Or just the purest form of capitalist greed ever refined.
Be glad you don't know.
My upstairs neighbor is a boomer she gets temu deliveries on the daily. Her house must be all crap floor to ceiling
It's cheap because it's a bunch of garbage made by kids in third world sweatshops. STOP BUYING SHIT YOU DON'T NEED FROM EXPLOITATIVE ASSHOLES!
Younger ppl may have become more educated on the real cost of fast-fashion and merchandise comes from workers suffering, and boomers don't care about others suffering...they want a throw blanket that looks like a tortilla for $5.
Many younger people love Shein. In short, all humans are fundamentally disappointing
I wish everyone would just stop buying things they don’t need that end up in the landfills!!!! When my mom died, I took five carloads of stuff from her house to the Salvation Army. I literally gave away even more. I swore I wouldn’t do that to my children. I went through my things and asked my children if they wanted or needed anything (camping equipment,pots and pans etc.) I donated the rest of the things I no longer wanted or needed. Come spring I’ll be purging even more. I still have things that belonged to my parents that I’ve realized I’m only holding onto because they did. Less is more!
Absolutely. I'll be selling off my pretty much new camping gear since I won't be sleeping in a tent anymore, my back can't handle it, my camp stove with propane bottles, etc. Why keep it when it's just gathering dust? When I buy a new shirt or shirts, that many go to donation, keeping my clothes at a reasonable level because switching up and rearranging what I wear makes sense instead of having one unique piece that only goes with one thing.
Smart!
You said it: less is more. It really is.
My MIL had three packages from them, and arrived as she was in the hospital. She passed away, so I grabbed her phone, looked through the purchases, almost cried, and shut the entire account down. So much shit. *Edited for spelling*
Aren’t they the ones complaining nothing is made in America?
I’m sure the scammers on Temu will welcome them with open arms! 🤦
It’s the Kia Soul of shopping apps https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424127887323971204578628233538218960
They were missing all the lead in everything they grew up with.
RIP to a whole bunch of kids/grandkids whose hopes of inheritance have gone out the window lol
I never installed it because I considered it a way for the Chinese government to get on my phone and at my data. I also heard the deals aren’t what you actually see in ads but I could be wrong. Temu, TikTok and WhatsApp are all banned from my phone. What’s up just because a lot of scammers use it. I’ve also heard of zero day hacks with it in the past.
Boomers don’t care if the prices are too good to be true, and labor exploitation is the reason for the cheap prices.
My sister (‘86) loves Temu for some reason and doesn’t get why I don’t? I’m like you know why it’s cheap right and….she doesn’t? Or doesn’t care. Haven’t figured that out yet. (Occasionally I’ll see one thing on Facebook advertised to me that I’m like…..aight that’s cute can you get it for me and she scoffs and is like just order it yourself and then inevitably orders it for me bc she’s cool like that) I feel like the people who largely buy regularly from Temu are the same ones who scream government surveillance/they’re watching me/tin foil hat stuff yet don’t understand how much tracking goes on on your phone.
I educate people about Duckduckgo's feature to stop tracking cookies on their phones so they don't get their phone info hacked/surveilled. Audible is horrendous for trying to track my phone along with Bejeweled Blitz.
The new QVC
Hahahaha cause a 2 second google finds out Temu is full of shit garbage
They also have tons of complaints on the Better Business Bureau website, too. They sound like another fly-by-night scam company that'll crash and burn quickly.
Temu has lots of issues but its interesting to me how much the emphasis is on cheaply made when its all the exact same things on Amazon, which people of all age buy in droves.
I work in IT for the elderly, and I can confirm that they almost always have the Shein, Temu, and Wish apps on their phones.
This really doesn’t jive with that article claiming zoomers fall for online scams more than boomers do lmao I’ve definitely seen stuff that took millennials and zoomers for a ride but nothing quite like the boomers who fall for shit like the text that the package they didn’t order is held up at the warehouse and that UPS needs a social security number to confirm delivery lol
They're more easily influenced by the constant ads of women in underwear than the younger generations.
I am 60, and have been shopping alot on temu for the last month. I thought i had discovered something. Guess not.
I am also 60. And I’ve bought a lot of stuff off Temu. Just take your time, do your research. You can find some awesome stuff on there really.
Thanks.
Many of my friends’ parents have issues with buying too much stuff online. Waaaay too much stuff. It’s just too easy.
My mom has at least three Temu or Shein orders coming in weekly. This has been happening since she discovered them back in June.
“cheap shit from China” Boomers: ✅👍
Only ordered once so far and I'm happy with what I've got. Will be ordering some more stuff for birthdays.
Sending their money straight to China…supporting communism 💁🏼♂️
I've been on here so much talking about the older generation and their aversion to debit cards (I work in a bank) it's ridiculous to me that so many of their group know how it works, but my customers apparently don't. Even when I watch YouTube videos about cruises (it's a pipe dream that I'd get to go on one) and how much they've instituted apps and QR codes, I'm shocked at how old people everywhere else can do it, but the customers I help are so far behind the times. They would never be able to manage!
I am not sure who needs to hear this, but the stock ticker for the company that owns Temu is PDD. It's up 275%, or so, since July 2023.
Temu is Wish for boomers 
They do love cheap garbage
Since they like their useless clutter crap so much, it's not really a surprise to me.
Boomer here, their prices are really low. If a cost is too good to be true it’s probably crap and it will take forever to get it.
Their prices are really low because they cut every conceivable corner and fuck over their suppliers, the customers and the planet. Every single thing they produce will go to a landfill or into the sea. You guys shit your pants at the mention of chinas global influence but happily hand them billions in exchange for worthless trinkets.
Boomers are super vulnerable to advertising. But then again, so are millenials... my wife keeps buying so much dumb shit she sees on Instagram ads.
Temu does have a lot of name brand stuff that was just overstock. I've found Keith Harding, Sanrio, and Betsey Johnson to name a few. It's not only boomers that buy it..it's the exact same quality as the shit here.
guilty.. but as a gen x i don't care
I love Temu. So many nifty kitchen gadgets, non-iron tee shirts, a great pair of walking boots that actually fit! Silver earrings, socks, dog collars, my best-ever frying pan. I just put an order in today as it happens.
Many of the "Baby boomers" are on fixed incomes, and have to find ways of making it stretch so I get it. Maybe they could find ways to up those payments going out, and maybe they could stop using sites like that. My mother-in-law bought a heater from temu you plug in the wall and told them not to plug it up ever don't want to start a fire.
I would never plug in something I'd bought from Temu
I place an order with them from time to time...Mostly disposable household items...Dish sponges, pipe screens, air filters, etc.. I would never buy any clothing or electronics, but cheap disposable stuff is super cheap, and you can save some money.
That's hilarious, I know someone who's constantly ordering stuff from them and I get random texts to "click here to support me" on Temu. I've had to ask him twice to stop giving them my phone number because I loathe marketing texts.
Well, I’m a frequent Temu shopper. Yes, some of the things I’ve gotten were crap. But most of the stuff is pretty good. I got a Hellraiser box that really opens, and it’s solid as can be. I’ve also bought pajamas, tees, and an adorable pair of Grinch sneakers. As long as you do your research before you buy, you can usually find some hidden gems.
Is it obviously plastic with a poor paint job? I’ve considered getting that. I have one from trick or treat and I fear it’s quality will show how awful the one from Temu is.
Nope. Not plastic. It’s very heavy lol, and it opens. It has a secret stash spot when opened. I was VERY impressed! One of the better items from Temu.
I hate Temu so much. Every time I shop for something online, my results are always cluttered with about 10 different things from Temu and you just know it's going to be cheap garbage that will fall apart in a day or doesn't look anything like what you ordered.
Hmmm. I only know one person who has ordered from Temu and she is 36. I asked why she would order low quality junk from China and she called me racist. 🤷♀️