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Went to dinner with my immediate family last night for my mum's birthday, and I got given some DKNY perfumes. This is not (just?) because I'm awesome, but rather because it's always been a tradition in our family that anyone going overseas is required to bring back tribute in return for not being thrown out of the cave for abandonment. Since I rarely see my parents these days, despite living in the same city, this gift was unexpected and largely without context.
So. Four DKNY perfumes. I'm not really a brand-name perfume wearer unless that brand is L'Occitane or BPAL. This gift came packaged in a clear plastic box, as I assume is standard. Each small vial of perfume was in a clear plastic display stand within that box. The stand was balanced on four small cardboard boxes large enough to hold the small glass bottles.
The hell? I thought. Well, I hope I like these perfumes, because it seems there's two of each.
No. There wasn't. There was four small empty decorated boxes for each perfume, and four bottles sitting ON TOP of those boxes. This seems both pointless and wasteful to me, but since I shop at small indie shops online and in vintage (=expensive, slightly less shitty op shops for the middle classes) shops, I think I'm sufficiently far removed from being their ideal customer that their ideal customer may as well have had an AVO out against me demanding I stay one continent away at all times.
On a related point, Jess told me that the defence "I don't have a TV" doesn't wash anymore, since my housemate does. Well, yes. She does. But 1) it's roughly the size of two shoeboxes glued together, 2) I keep forgetting the thing exists and 3) even if I remember, I'd rather watch TV shows via DVD where there aren't commercials that alternately enrage and befuddle me.
I'd rather play inappropriate music on my cello, anyway.
ETA: Oh, I was going to add that I assume the tiny boxes are for gifting friends and relations the individual perfumes, but this is either an extremely crap and scroogy present (they're only 7ml for Christ's sake) or I have completely underestimated how much this stuff costs.
So. Four DKNY perfumes. I'm not really a brand-name perfume wearer unless that brand is L'Occitane or BPAL. This gift came packaged in a clear plastic box, as I assume is standard. Each small vial of perfume was in a clear plastic display stand within that box. The stand was balanced on four small cardboard boxes large enough to hold the small glass bottles.
The hell? I thought. Well, I hope I like these perfumes, because it seems there's two of each.
No. There wasn't. There was four small empty decorated boxes for each perfume, and four bottles sitting ON TOP of those boxes. This seems both pointless and wasteful to me, but since I shop at small indie shops online and in vintage (=expensive, slightly less shitty op shops for the middle classes) shops, I think I'm sufficiently far removed from being their ideal customer that their ideal customer may as well have had an AVO out against me demanding I stay one continent away at all times.
On a related point, Jess told me that the defence "I don't have a TV" doesn't wash anymore, since my housemate does. Well, yes. She does. But 1) it's roughly the size of two shoeboxes glued together, 2) I keep forgetting the thing exists and 3) even if I remember, I'd rather watch TV shows via DVD where there aren't commercials that alternately enrage and befuddle me.
I'd rather play inappropriate music on my cello, anyway.
ETA: Oh, I was going to add that I assume the tiny boxes are for gifting friends and relations the individual perfumes, but this is either an extremely crap and scroogy present (they're only 7ml for Christ's sake) or I have completely underestimated how much this stuff costs.
