{"id":12513,"date":"2018-06-04T11:10:14","date_gmt":"2018-06-04T10:10:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=12513"},"modified":"2018-06-05T21:00:21","modified_gmt":"2018-06-05T20:00:21","slug":"by-design","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=12513","title":{"rendered":"Blogathon 04\/18"},"content":{"rendered":"

Continuing the everyday look at everyday objects through the camera lens\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n

You remember the big rage for designer this and designer that?<\/p>\n

Designer shoes, designer shirts, designer suits?<\/p>\n

Invent a label, stick it on a thing, jack the price up by 5,000%, and laugh all the way to the bank.<\/p>\n

It’s still going on today, but we don’t really call it ‘designer’ any longer.<\/p>\n

Rolex watches tell the time, so too will a \u00a315 digital watch from Argos.<\/p>\n

So what does that extra \u00a37,440 get you?<\/p>\n

They’re both waterproof.<\/p>\n

The both attach to your wrist.<\/p>\n

The both tell the time.<\/p>\n

The cheap one has far fewer buttons to reset, and a simpler set of controls.<\/p>\n

And the cheap one isn’t going to get you mugged.<\/p>\n

Sticking a label on things is just an excuse for rampant consumerism and mine’s-better-than-yoursism.<\/p>\n

It’s all a load of bollocks<\/del> hype.<\/p>\n

Here’s another wealth-creation example: anything with the label ‘equestrian’ ramps up the price by thousands of percent.<\/p>\n

A bucket is a bucket is a bucket is a bucket but not, apparently if you’re an equestrian.<\/p>\n

If you aren’t an equestrian you can pick up a bucket for .97p from B&Q<\/a>.<\/p>\n

But if you are an equestrian, you should expect to pay \u00a35.50<\/a> for a device with exactly the same water-carrying function.<\/p>\n

That’s bonkers, that is.<\/p>\n

Also, that’s why I buy my buckets and grooming boxes at B&Q; saved me a fortune over the years.<\/p>\n

\"Bucket\"
Bucket<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Continuing the everyday look at everyday objects through the camera lens\u2026 You remember the big rage for designer this and designer that? Designer shoes, designer<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stuff","two-columns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12513\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}