This blog is aimed at the good for nothing, useless twonks who work in media, advertising and PR. You don't cut corn, you don't mill steel, you don't raise animals, you don't heal or educate,many people might think that you do nothing useful at all. Your job, just like Del Boy, is to convince people to buy a load of pointless crap that anyone with a brain can do without. You are always looking for new avenues to advertise, to get people to buy the mountain of useless shite that you currently can't get rid of because the world is short of money. You blight some very good blogs with your banners, adverts and those boggin' pop ups! I'm so sick of you that I just don't read blogs that advertise, review or have guest writers. Some of those guest writers wanted to clog up my blog by writing about products that my readers may be interested in. I'm sure the readers of this blog are not here because of the products I use!
Many of you afore mentioned useless dip sticks, in between tweeting, updating your Facebook status and going for coffee, spend your time trawling the internet looking for 'avenues', 'window's and 'possibilities'. You have offered me dog food, spoons, clothes, discounts and other buckets full of useless crud in exchange for me to write a review. You want me to put links on my blog for samples (I'll send you a fucking sample in a minute!) Any daft beggar who writes to me in the future and tries to offer me some pointless product will get a simple email. 'Jog on!'
I don't do adverts, I don't want your stuff (when you sent it, I gave it away) and the only way I will write for anyone, is for a whole lot more money than you'd be prepared to pay! I've put a heading, telling you semi-literate numpties that I don't do adverts and yet you still email me with your offers, which are always paltry may I add, proving that you don't read my blog but just quickly flick and scan through and think you've found an 'opportunity'.
I don't do consumerism. I don't want more. I got off the buy more merry go round a few years ago and I'm not getting back on. I shop in jumble sales, I wash out and reuse a mooncup! I wear the same shoes for around four years, I use the library, I mend tights, I even get my fire lighting newspapers out of the recyling skip in the car park. I buy supermarket value products. I make do and mend. I make gifts for people out of old clothes, often gifted to me and I encourage anyone and everyone to stop feeling they have to buy any more than they actually need. Now would you please get the message.....I don't want any, thank you very much!
Until tomorrow,
Love Froogs xxxxxxxxx
'I'll send you a fucking sample in a minute'- love it!
ReplyDeleteYou know, I signed up for Adsense but couldn't go through with it. Now I am feeling better about that! I used to link to a blog that I removed because I got sick of the reviews. The review that made me remove my link had to do with cheap dog food that got a thumbs up. If there is one thing I don't agree with, it's cheap dog food....
ReplyDeleteStand firm,I do not take any heed of adverts. If I need something I will look for it, I will not buy on a 20 second advert or a write up by someone who is getting paid to praise. The only advert I, like is the Meerkats because I find them amusing I use a local brokers for my insurance thankyou.
ReplyDeleteL'Oreal - you're NOT worth it!
ReplyDeletecoca cola - the REAL thing in what sense?
McDonalds - well WE are not 'lovin it'
Sky - I believe in MUCH better things than you can ever offer me.
What fun it is to rewrite their ads!! Most of my TV watching is stuff recorded earlier, so I usually whizz thru the ad breaks anyway!!
GREAT post, Froogs!
Good for you Froogs!! That's why we love you and your blog.
ReplyDeleteI truly believe that you have a "book to publish" in you. All your fantastic tips and recipes deserve a wider audience.
Kathy x
If your interested froogs, I have some pond nails, sky hooks, and an air guitar for sale.
ReplyDeleteI know a friend with a chocolate teapot, a walking stick with a wheel on it, oh and if I look hard enough I can probably dig out an ashtray for a motorbike.
If any of these take your fancy please don't hesitate to drop me an e-mail. at useless erm I mean useful tat.com hee hee hee
love it.... is all I can say.
Luv 'n' Rainbows
*Sparkle*
Froogs, wonderful, wonderful, mild manured heart felt HOLD-ON-TO0-YOUR-OVERPRICED-DESINER-CRAP-KNICKERS response.
ReplyDeleteI hear you I am endeavoring to live as cheaply as possible and this don't mean miserly. I feel there is enough in maid in this world and donated to charities and the like to keep me warm cosey fed watered and entertained and I don't want to buy new anymore , or as little as humanly possible. Did a charity shop today as I have dropped a few kilos so went and spent some pennies in a good cheep and wonderfully budget friendly charity shop today. And was inspired to keep on going to lose enough weight to make me healthier but the enable me to break free of shopping in Evans. felt liberated! and it is liberating reading your blog the info you give on where to go how to look as something differently and maybe not do things all your way but helps us find a way that works for us.
have a wonderful evening
all the best
Rachel
Plymouth
Go on Froogs. You tell them. Nice one.
ReplyDeleteStand by what you stand for. I am with you.
Love. Dianne - Hereford
Lol! I agree with you!
ReplyDeleteI keep getting sent all sorts of invites, offers and requests to put on my blog. Occasionally, if it is something I really would have bought ( if I needed to) I will accept and review. But I have done about four of those since I started blogging.
I signed up to Adsense as well, but could not bear to have the ads on my blog so turned it off.
Totally with you on this one, there is so much rubbish out there its unbelievable what they think people will buy - a load of useless tat. Since reading your blog the veil has fallen from my eyes and I see these things for what they really are. I have cleared my house using the charity collection bags that come through the letterbox and only buy what I know I need - boy do I feel better!
ReplyDeleteI love you Froogs!
ReplyDeleteMade me smile! Adverts really p*ss me off. Especially the ones that murder all my favourite songs from years gone by. Sickening.
ReplyDeleteGood on you. I have just stopped reading a whole bunch of blogs cos I'm sick of reading posts that are on some product/service or other. if i wanted to read ads i'd read ads. I dont. I want to read blogs.
ReplyDeleteI just laughed so much that I actually did a bit of wee - if only there was an "ad" i could click on for some absorbent lady pads.....(if and when the time comes I'll be making my own like I did with STs for over 20 yrs!)
ReplyDeleteGood Life and loving it! x
After the night I've had I was so happy to read your blog before bed and smile. Starting from tomorrow our lifestyle will have to change. I need to kick myself up the arse and sort my life and home out. My children can still have a great childhood without mummy spending money she hasn't got. Keep up the great work Froogs xxx
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ReplyDeleteI liked that!
Jane x
agreeing with you 100% hear hear!
ReplyDeleteRock on sista! I was thinking today about adding some ads to my blog, but it's kind of an oxymoron to my urban homesteading blog intent!
ReplyDeleteAnd the real kicker-they charge you more than the item costs to deliver it!!
ReplyDeleteVote with your wallet, I have always said.
Good on you, Froogs
Barb
Absolutely brilliant Blog post....do you think THEY got the message?
ReplyDeleteSomehow I think they will keep trying though, because as you said they don't actually read Blogs, or understand the content.
Sue xx
excellent blog - we always turn the sound off the instant the ad's come on TV and have done for years - people think we are weird, unsolicited mail goes straight in the bin, and phone sellers get the 'penguin' treatment. Mind you if someone offers me free stuff via my blog I say yes please - I have yet to write a review for any of them, but the dog will surely enjoy her old age doggy treats!
ReplyDeleteYou are so right about those marketing idiots. I find it really hard to resist though. I know I just need to stay strong and try not to give in. I don't need their rubbish, I don't need their rubbish.....
ReplyDeleteYou go girl!!!
ReplyDeleteThe only thing I review on my blog occasionally is a good book I've read or perhaps a movie I've seen but I certainly wouldn't advertise or post for money/gifts either.
Must admit though it is kinda nice that they think I'm popular enough now to ask lol
x x x
Well said. Keep blogging. Yours is the only blog, apart from craft info and tuts that I read each day.
ReplyDeleteI agree with you...& your post made me laugh too...Thank you!
ReplyDeleteI think what bugs me is the assumption that some sales people have that EVERYONE is a mindless consumer who is easily convinced that the junk they are selling is ESSENTIAL.
ReplyDeleteIf it was essential I'd already have it!
Good on you Froogs - well said !!
ReplyDeleteI have been following your blog for a while now, really love it. I am far from frugal though ( I have to admit). I love this post, especially the right between the eyes tone of it. I made one sponsored blogpost a while ago. People could win a enemal house number. I thought it would be nice that one of my readers would win something. The winner had to wait for months for her price . That was the end of sponsored blogging for me. Even though I only have a tiny blog, I won't let somebody else give me a bad name.
ReplyDeleteTake care, Marianne.
I only accept ads from friends and during my charity blogathon. I get a lot of strange requests for ads. I know they have no idea what my blog is about.
ReplyDeleteLove it! I agree with every word you say
ReplyDeleteKath xxx
Love it ! I agree with ever word you say
ReplyDeleteKath
Good for you. Well said Froogs!
ReplyDeleteGo, Go, Go!!!
ReplyDeleteOh, for a world without advertising! We'd then just have to rely on word-of-mouth from those we really trust!
Have visions of all the Del Boys, looking for opportunities now. Well said Froogs-now i am currently plotting revenge on PPI companies who have the knack of ringing the minute i get through the door..i am currently a rival PPI claiming firm, or i put phone down, or ask them to wait while my minder comes to the phone..
ReplyDeleteJust discovered what mooncups are! Too late for me now, but I wish I had discovered them a few years ago!
ReplyDeleteI don't know why they bother with adverts (eg: on telly, radio, banners on webpages, popups) The harder someone tries to sell me something, the less likely I am to buy it. Alienation. One day the whole marketting schmoozing industry is going to come crashing down when they realise it doesn't work. Except on thickos & mugs, I am afraid to say.
ReplyDeleteI said I would never advertise, but received an offer for money up front, not for clicks, an offer I could not turn down. It is only a button, so I have gotten over being offended. I don't like blogs that are continually reviewing something and recommending it to me!
ReplyDeleteYour's is the kind of blog that I have been searching for! Thank you so much for not accepting the ads and such! From a newbie at the blogging but an old hat at the frugaling (wait is that a word?)
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Your's is the type of blog I have been searching for! Thank you for going against the "norm" and not accepting the ads and such. From a newbie at blogging but an old hat at frugaling.
ReplyDeleteYour's is the kind of blog that I have been searching for! Thank you so much for not accepting the ads and such! From a newbie at the blogging but an old hat at the frugaling (wait is that a word?)
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