Sucker for Direct Sales

I came home to some Avon catalogues greeting me at my front door.

I have bought a few things from this Avon dealer, and she makes it a point to leave me with new catalogues with every campaign that is out. I still buy from her once in a while, some skincare, some nonsense. Am a not so proud new member of Neways. Oh, don't get me wrong. I think their products are alright, but I meant I got sucked again.

I joined as a consumer, not a dealer, purely because I pity this mum with a kid who drove all the way from Point Cook to my place to see me. Well, am sure she's pretty well off, but trying to get some side income apart from being SAHM, you know, just like us bloggers. I bought some products, one such herbs and veggie powder still sitting in my pantry cupboard, seal intact. It has all the goodness from spirulina, alfalfa, chlorella to siberian ginseng root powder, grapeseed powder to cayenne pepper. And why am I not taking it? The four letter word...

L.A.Z.Y.

Yup. I try to be healthy too. Ask me what I've got. Multivitamins, Berocca, Redoxon C, lecithin, evening primrose oil, flaxseed oil, biotin, chromium picolinate, Silicea (colloidal silica), goji juice, Imedeen. There used to be Fat Burners too. So how do I take them all? Great question. Their sitting in the cupboard, still. I try alternating them, and take the EPO and Silicea daily. Hang on, gotta go take a dose now.

So yeah. I was a member of Doubleday Bookclub too. And the Himalayan Goji Juice. Until I realized I can get free books from the library and cheap ones from op shops, and that the Goji Juice is the same price at the health food store. So why should I be forced to pay for four bottles monthly and have to give away a few bottles, acting like I am so 'food lou'? (generous)

I blame my mother. She would walk pass the cosmetic counters, get sucked by those sales girls sugar-coating their words and mum will bag hundreds of ringgit worth of skincare, which were unopened still, half a year later.

I guess everyone has a weakness for something. A friend of mine has a penchant for shoes. She has lotsa shoes. If only my shoe size were hers, I would have gotten lotsa 'new' shoes from her. Yeah you lar. You know I am talking about you :P

Tell me. What do you suck at?