Why do we buy things such as...............?

Question

Foot spas, juicers, excercise machines, blenders and so on then put them in storage almost as soon as we bought them never to be seen again until the next junk sale?

Answer 1

Subliminal messages in the advertising....

Answer 2

Well, it looks good to the eye. We think we could use it or the info-mercial did a great job of deceiving us of its good quality and how it will make you look better.
We take it home with excitement and use it once or twice and then of course go back to our normal routine life and totally forget about the item.
Even adults are children when they get a new toy. They get it play with it a few times and in the toy box it goes.
Really good advertising is what it is.

Answer 3

I would call that impulse buying. It happens most with women and clothes. How many times have we cleaned out our closets and pulled things out that still had the tags on them?

Answer 4

We think ohhh i need that i will definatly use that. Then it goes unused for ages. Then we see something else and think nope i will definatly use this. We cant help it were wemon.

Answer 5

yes, its called impulsive and senseless buying probably secondary to some subconscious needs that are more psychological than real.

Answer 6

blame it on the advertising industry because, we as a society, want to be hip and trendy

Answer 7

because we live in a consumers society and feel the need to spend money.

Answer 8

because we have more money than sense

Answer 9

* we just had to had it*