# My wife has no sales resistance(mild) **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [February 16, 2008, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-wife-has-no-sales-resistance-mild/437884 "2008-02-16T15:21:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![SomeUserName](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e480ec/32.png) [@SomeUserName](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SomeUserName)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2008, 9:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-wife-has-no-sales-resistance-mild/437884/21 "2008-02-17T09:21:37Z")
I got the PedEgg For Valentines Day and I love it. ---
**Author:** ![T\_SQUARE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/9de053/32.png) [@T\_SQUARE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/T_SQUARE)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2008, 12:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-wife-has-no-sales-resistance-mild/437884/22 "2008-02-17T12:11:47Z")
[QUOTE=Pullet] $8000 mattress [/QUOTE] Can you please describe an $8000 mattress? A few years back, when I got my first real full time job, I waltzed into the furniture store (one of the largest in the country, so I’m told) and bought what I thought was the “Cadillac” of mattresses. It was a King, cost me around $1500. I cannot imagine an $8000 mattress. To me, that is like talking about a $200 hamburger. What properties does this mattress have? ---
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2008, 12:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-wife-has-no-sales-resistance-mild/437884/23 "2008-02-17T12:23:03Z")
[Here](http://www.choice.com.au/viewArticle.aspx?id=105036&catId=100168&tid=100008&p=1&title=What+not+to+buy+for+Christmas) is a list of the most useless appliances from Choice, the magazine of the Australian Consumer Association. Highlights: ``` * Electric wine chiller * Aromatherapy diffuser * Electric ice shaver * Foot spa * Ice cream maker * Vertical grill * Milk frother ``` ---
**Author:** ![Sophistry\_and\_Illusion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b3f665/32.png) [@Sophistry\_and\_Illusion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sophistry_and_Illusion)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2008, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-wife-has-no-sales-resistance-mild/437884/24 "2008-02-17T13:33:15Z")
Hey, look on the bright side–she accepted \*your \* sales pitch! 😛 ---
**Author:** ![PunditLisa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/4af34b/32.png) [@PunditLisa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PunditLisa)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2008, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-wife-has-no-sales-resistance-mild/437884/25 "2008-02-17T13:42:12Z")
My husband is a sucker for house to house salesmen, which aggravates the hell out of me because it just encourages more. I have no trouble saying “No thank you.” to any adult who shows up uninvited on my doorstep. Not so with my husband. In addtion to donating to every cause known to man, we own a $140 painting from a door to door artist. I’m serious. Worse than owning a Norman Rockwell painting is a Norman Rockwell knock-off painting. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2008, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-wife-has-no-sales-resistance-mild/437884/26 "2008-02-17T14:23:07Z")
[QUOTE=T\_SQUARE] Can you please describe an $8000 mattress? A few years back, when I got my first real full time job, I waltzed into the furniture store (one of the largest in the country, so I’m told) and bought what I thought was the “Cadillac” of mattresses. It was a King, cost me around $1500. I cannot imagine an $8000 mattress. To me, that is like talking about a $200 hamburger. What properties does this mattress have? [/QUOTE] [Here you go.](http://www1.macys.com/catalog/product/index.ognc?ID=275627&PseudoCat=se-xx-xx-xx.esn_results) ---
**Author:** ![bbs2k](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e495f1/32.png) [@bbs2k](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bbs2k)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2008, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-wife-has-no-sales-resistance-mild/437884/27 "2008-02-17T14:38:59Z")
[QUOTE=Czarcasm] [Here you go.](http://www1.macys.com/catalog/product/index.ognc?ID=275627&PseudoCat=se-xx-xx-xx.esn_results) [/QUOTE] 1 of 1 (100%) customers would recommend this product to a friend ---
**Author:** ![monica](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a183cd/32.png) [@monica](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monica)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2008, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-wife-has-no-sales-resistance-mild/437884/28 "2008-02-17T14:48:07Z")
[QUOTE=PunditLisa] My husband is a sucker for house to house salesmen, which aggravates the hell out of me because it just encourages more. I have no trouble saying “No thank you.” to any adult who shows up uninvited on my doorstep. Not so with my husband. In addtion to donating to every cause known to man, we own a $140 painting from a door to door artist. I’m serious. Worse than owning a Norman Rockwell painting is a Norman Rockwell knock-off painting. [/QUOTE] Perhaps a “no soliciting” sign might help? ---
**Author:** ![LouisB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/dfb087/32.png) [@LouisB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LouisB)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2008, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-wife-has-no-sales-resistance-mild/437884/29 "2008-02-17T16:29:15Z")
We’ve got the shower cleaning thing; we like it. What about the cola thing? Does it make good cola? ---
**Author:** ![asterion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4da419/32.png) [@asterion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asterion)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2008, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-wife-has-no-sales-resistance-mild/437884/30 "2008-02-17T17:13:26Z")
[QUOTE=T\_SQUARE] BTW, does the homemade cola taste like the real thing? A guy would have to drink quite a bit of soda to cover the fixed costs though. [/QUOTE] True, but you can buy the actual Coke or Pepsi syrup at places like Costco or Sam’s Club for something like $50 a box or you can buy generic stuff for even less. I’m not sure about the fixed costs, but I’d think that if you drink a lot of soda it’d eventually pay for itself. (I’m sure I spend more than $300 a year on cans of soda, even though I try to buy on sale.) ---
**Author:** ![Harmonious\_Discord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/74df32/32.png) [@Harmonious\_Discord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harmonious_Discord)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2008, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-wife-has-no-sales-resistance-mild/437884/31 "2008-02-17T17:47:13Z")
Wow, one of the people that own a household soda machine. We molded a part for a home soda system, that required a few hundred parts a year, for a couple years. I never thought to hear about a person that might have bought one. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Jayn\_Newell](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Jayn\_Newell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jayn_Newell)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2008, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-wife-has-no-sales-resistance-mild/437884/32 "2008-02-17T18:02:07Z")
[QUOTE=Pullet] $3000 on a computer that is way over powered for what she needs [/QUOTE] Is that computer remotely new? I’m sure my husband and I can find some use for the parts. It is way too easy to get oversold on computers. I bet most people have more power than they really need (my mother was using a Win98 box up until a couple years ago–drove me nuts when I used it. Nothing like having the computer freeze up from having two browser windows running. But for her it was plenty.) ---
**Author:** ![gonzomax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e8c25b/32.png) [@gonzomax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzomax)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2008, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-wife-has-no-sales-resistance-mild/437884/33 "2008-02-17T18:14:57Z")
[QUOTE=LouisB] We’ve got the shower cleaning thing; we like it. What about the cola thing? Does it make good cola? [/QUOTE] I never liked it. My kid thought it was ok. It had 4 flavors if I remember right. ---
**Author:** ![Morgyn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morgyn/32/3041_2.png) [@Morgyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgyn)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2008, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-wife-has-no-sales-resistance-mild/437884/34 "2008-02-17T19:24:39Z")
[QUOTE=don’t ask] [Here](http://www.choice.com.au/viewArticle.aspx?id=105036&catId=100168&tid=100008&p=1&title=What+not+to+buy+for+Christmas) is a list of the most useless appliances from Choice, the magazine of the Australian Consumer Association. Highlights: ``` * Electric wine chiller * Aromatherapy diffuser * Electric ice shaver * Foot spa ``` \*\* \* Ice cream maker\*\* \* Vertical grill \* Milk frother [/QUOTE] (bolding mine) How can an ice cream maker be useless? I mean, it makes ice cream! Right in your own home! How cool is that? (Yes, I went there. No, I don’t have one.) ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2008, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-wife-has-no-sales-resistance-mild/437884/35 "2008-02-17T19:27:10Z")
[QUOTE=don’t ask] [\ \* Foot spa \ [/QUOTE] I use my foot spa almost nightly in winter. I have very cold feet, and nothing feels as good as putting them in a hot bath. Of course, in Australia, you probably have far fewer cold feet nights. 😃 The Flow-bee actually works, eh? I’m always cutting my own hair - can I call dibs on the Flow-bee at the Doper garage sale? **monica** , the “No Soliciting” sign doesn’t always keep the truly annoying away, but it does give you a leg to stand on when you’re yelling at them - “Did you see the sign? Can you not read? What makes you think it didn’t apply to YOU?” ---
**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2008, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-wife-has-no-sales-resistance-mild/437884/36 "2008-02-17T20:00:59Z")
[QUOTE=Morgyn] How can an ice cream maker be useless? I mean, it makes ice cream! Right in your own home! How cool is that? [/QUOTE] A lot of my friend’s had ice cream makers on their wedding gift registry in the mid-90’s. For the most part, they used them twice at the most and then a few years later gave them away or sold them at a garage sale. They’re loud and a pain in the ass and it’s way easier to take ten minutes to drive to 31 Flavors and back. It takes like an hour and a half to make the ice cream if I recall correctly. One couple I know used theirs regularly. They would have frequent BBQs and would always have the ice cream maker going at some point. In fact, they had like three of them going if the party was big enough. They were garage sale junkies and would get them for like five dollars each. They figured out how to make some funky flavors and it would always make for good conversation at the BBQs. Ice cream makers are kind of like telescopes. They seem so cool but once people get them, most of them find that they’re more trouble than they’re worth. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2008, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-wife-has-no-sales-resistance-mild/437884/37 "2008-02-17T20:07:26Z")
[QUOTE=Czarcasm] [Here you go.](http://www1.macys.com/catalog/product/index.ognc?ID=275627&PseudoCat=se-xx-xx-xx.esn_results) [/QUOTE] Holy shit: _that thing is marked down from $15,000!_ I’ve paid less for a new car. ---
**Author:** ![smiling\_bandit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@smiling\_bandit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smiling_bandit)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2008, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-wife-has-no-sales-resistance-mild/437884/38 "2008-02-17T20:18:39Z")
If my mattress cost 8000, it better have tits and be giving me the most mind-blowing orgasm of the century. And it shoudl be warm. And female. OK, it better just be a really awesome hooker. ---
**Author:** ![Pullet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/edb3f5/32.png) [@Pullet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pullet)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2008, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-wife-has-no-sales-resistance-mild/437884/39 "2008-02-17T20:45:16Z")
[QUOTE=T\_SQUARE] Can you please describe an $8000 mattress? [/QUOTE] You know those adjustable mattresses, where you can elevate your head or feet? [Like these?](http://www.sleep-comfort.com/) Apparently those cost $8000. Not enough :rolleyes: available **Czarcasm** , you and your internet search skills need to stay far away from my mom. You too, **smiling bandit** 😉 **Jayn\_Newell** Sadly, the computer is a Mac G3, so there’s no point salvaging it for parts. On the plus side, _now_ it is correctly powered for her needs. She and my dad get along just fine with it, their dial-up connection, and the Gateway they bought for my high school years in 1995. Aren’t they cute? 😛 > [@don't ask](#): > > - Vertical grill This makes my brain hurt. I did once employ my mighty high school chemistry knowledge to explain to my mom why the Ozone air purifier she wanted to buy was a load of crap. That was a day marked by gold in history, my friends. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2008, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-wife-has-no-sales-resistance-mild/437884/40 "2008-02-17T20:46:37Z")
[QUOTE=hajario] \ Ice cream makers are kind of like telescopes. They seem so cool but once people get them, most of them find that they’re more trouble than they’re worth. [/QUOTE] I’m planning to take advantage of this when we’re ready to get some exercise equipment. I’m fairly sure we can find a good treadmill, lightly used, for a great price. Then we won’t feel so bad if it ends up being a clothes-rack. 😃 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-wife-has-no-sales-resistance-mild/437884.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-wife-has-no-sales-resistance-mild/437884.md?page=3)