When it comes to being poor I know a thing or two. I was in college once, I know what it's like to make $20 last for a month. With that being said, how can people go on living buying name brand items instead of the generic store brand? Sure, in some cases generic brand food doesn't taste quite the same, but when you can purchase something for $5 or get 100 of the same item for a nickel, it should be pretty obvious which way to go. Yet I still see people buying store brand as they hop on the bus like a poor person.

Don't get me wrong, I do it from time to time because I'm 100 percent convinced that Froot Loops tastes 1,000 times better than the store brand. I was worse when I was a kid, yelling at my mom that she's making us look poor by buying generic food. We're not poor, now get out of my room while I smoke my pipe and read my leather bound books. Also send in the butler so that I can humiliate him for the price of his soul. Ever since my parents stopped paying for all my shit and wouldn't let me bring my butler with me when I moved out though, fuck anybody who wants to make comments about my generic food. I wouldn't be able to afford my own butler if I bought name brand.

TL;DR Why people insist on buying name brand items instead of generic when it's so much more expensive is beyond me.

Posted by Atkins under Random Thought Thursday