My annoyance with car commercials is no longer limited to the awful Christmas/holiday seasonal ads. But now, instead of encouraging people to buy their significant other a car, or telling people that it’s a financially practical idea to buy a luxury car for Christmas, the goal now is to try and con other people into buying your car for you. I’ll be honest, I am not a fan of the wedding registry that is just “giveread more…
It is the holiday season once again, and with the holiday season comes the holiday advertising. That means that it’s time for one other holiday tradition- my rant against holiday car commercials. Last year, I wrote that Cars are NOT Gifts, and it’s 27 comments make it my most popular post ever (thanks to The Consumerist for linking to it). This year, believe it or not, I have yet to see a commercial suggesting that someoneread more…
Have you seen this Levi’s commercial? I love beat poetry, so I do like just listening to it, but C has actually watched it and came away asking me- What are they trying to sell? There are some images of people in jeans, but quite a few women in dresses, men in casual suits, etc. The poem makes perfect sense for the brand, but the images aren’t of Levis. How does that make sense?read more…
I am a flaming feminist. That will come out clearly in this post. If that bothers you, you should probably stop reading now. Thing 1 This weekend, we babysat 3.5 year old P for about 25 hours. We had a great time with her, but something happened that bothered me a little bit. I had just put her in her car seat to take her to the park. It was just she and I, butread more…
Every year I rant about this. (See the evidence from last year here and here.) And I will probably keep ranting about it. I HATE the car commercials that indicate you should buy a car as a gift. HATE THEM. Now, these commercials are almost always Lexus (this year’s biggest offender so far), Acura, Mercedes commercials- you know, luxury cars, though last year there was the Buick commercial. But still, even if you’re “rich” why doesread more…
