$1,131.00 for this trailer-park-kitchen full of this:
http://www.chrisco.com.au/pages/ShowProduct.aspx?Product=88719
Sorry, but WTF?
Oh and p.s. …“Sanitarium Weet-Bix” What??
Uhhhhh…what?
A hamper is a thing you put dirty clothes in. Generally there isn’t sausages, cake mix, and booze inside unless it’s been a really wild night.
Sanitarium, a company well known throughout Australia and New Zealand. It’s owned by the Seventh Day Adventist Church.
From the Macquarie Dictionary:
‘Hamper’ can refer to any box/basket etc of goodies - presumably stemming from the original packaging in a wicker basket.
I bet they taste like a kick-ass metal song sung on karaoke night by a drunk, bitter ex-senator from Pennsylvania.
Um, why not just budget accordingly for the holidays, then go buy exactly what you need? Looks like a lot of the crap included in the linked hamper is stuff that no one will ever even eat. Or, is overprocessed crap food that no one *should *eat.
Sweet deal for the scamming grocery store though.
That’s pretty much what **Cazzle **was saying in the earlier thread about other people’s actions making you think less of them.
Yup. My mum bought us one a couple years ago, from this very same company. What an enormous pain in the ass.
First, it wasn’ a hamper - it was three or four big boxes. We lived in a tiny basement suite with limited storage - and truth be told, the majority of it was exactly the sort of crap that we’d never buy.
I tried to delicately let my mum know that the thought was appreciated, but that we’d really rather not have had it. Some of it got used up - tomato sauce, tinned beans, that sort of thing – we did open one package of Hamburger Helper, thinking it might be alright for a “too lazy to cook a proper meal” night. Ruined some perfectly good ground beef, threw the inedible mess away, and made do with sandwiches.
We made a few trips to drop the majority of it at Food Bank donation bins at the local grocers.
Turned out that “gentle” wasn’t going to do it, my mum let slip that she was planning to do the same thing the next year, and I had to flat out tell her that it wasn’t only not needed, it was totally unwanted. Please! No!
Geez, did she think I didn’t by Cheez Whiz for my entire adult life because it slipped my mind somehow? That I couldn’t afford it?
Pretty much true except for - ironically - the Weet-Bix which (when they do that annual audit of breakfast cereals) are the only cereal on the market that doesn’t come back full of sugar, salt and other stuff that’ll kill you.
I haven’t thought about this for years, but when I was young my maternal grandfather used to give my family a basket of food for Christmas. We kids also got some toys, but he would bring a big wicker basket full of stuff like canned veggies, pasta. I guess he figured with five kids my parents could use some help with the grocery shopping.
The store’s name is “Chrisco”? Do they call it that because its products shorten your life?
Crisco shortening’s not big over here. So the joke isn’t that relevant to us.
Chrisco is a stupid contraction of “Christmas Company” or some shit like that.
My money’s on “Christmas Con”.
I was just looking at the vouchers (gift certificates, American friends, gift certificates) they offer. Wow, such value! If you buy just $500 worth of hampers from them, they’ll let you buy a gift voucher for up to $1000, and charge only 8% or a $10 fee (depending on which voucher you choose). That’s incredible value. Finally, I can spend $1080 on the $1000 Kmart gift voucher I’ve always wanted. That’s a much better idea than sticking my $20.40 a week into a Christmas Club account and winding up with $1080 + 0.15% interest to spend at Christmas!