Living in a consumer society

[clevermanka]

This showed up in my Amazon Gold Box today:

Portable Ice Cube Maker.

Is it just me or is the concept of paying $400 for something that makes *ice* for godsake just repulsive?

Comments

[normalcyispasse.livejournal.com]

Oh, but it looks like an iMac. You could be the hippest person at the party; bring it to the beach and beautiful people would throng around you.

Then again, for $399 you could buy a lot of other really groovy, rad things and spend the occasional buck for a bag of ice at Dillons. You just would look quite as cool.

[clevermanka.livejournal.com]

Then again, for $399 you could buy a lot of other really groovy, rad things

Yeah, like a plane ticket to Cancun!

Re: I'm a Dork...

[clevermanka.livejournal.com]

Hey, that pink mixer is on my wish list! Seriously. Not the online wish list, but my family knows about it. My current mixer (which gramma bought in 1954) is on its last legs. I might actually get this one for xmas this year! So if you're a dork for wanting it, you're in good company.

donning former bartender hat...

[redheadfae.livejournal.com]

Yah, believe it or not, ice makers ARE damned expensive. Think about the cost of your average refridgerator as a comparison.

The ice machine going belly-up is a bar owners' nightmare.

It's the "portable" part that made me laugh. I was somehow expecting battery-operated so you could tote it to the beach/lake/woods. But apparently not, it still requires grid juice. So much for ice in power outages.

Re: donning former bartender hat...

[clevermanka.livejournal.com]

OK, yeah, fine, but why is it in my Amazon Gold Box? I mean, if I was on a restaurant supply website, sure, but geez...

Why couldn't that pink Kitchenaid have popped up?

[radcliffe.livejournal.com]

wow yeah, there has to be some special reason why someone would need something like that.
I have a sewing machine that does nothing but make ruffles, so hey, these things happen ;)