Tuesday, July 5, 2011

Don't Leave Me Your Sh*t...Please...

www.PlumDistrict.com


This exciting deal is brought to from the site built "by Moms for Moms".  Considering that daily deals are the modern bazaar for uppity 20 to 30-somethings in metropolitan cities, and the unconvincing image of the "mother" above, this deal site has its work cut out for it.  This particular (morbid) deal assumes that: a) The person buying from a discount site actually has crap worth giving away after they die, and b) They are actually planning for their future rather than blowing $125 on Bikram Yoga classes when they still haven't even used the $85 deal they purchased last month for Kundalini Yoga classes (it's a real word - I checked).  In all likelihood, this legal will would look something like:

  • To my friend Erica, I leave you my $20 for $10 at eBay - spend it well (and before October 1).
  • To John I leave 39 Groupons for various crappy fast food restaurants that I was never really interested in going to.  The "Buy!" button was just so tempting...
  • To everybody else, I leave my unpaid student loans.

Also, as far as deals go, there's nothing quite like checking your email in the morning with a reminder to purchase your discount will.  "You're gonna die - might as well take 5 minutes out of your morning routine and make sure your "estate" is in order."  It might actually be worth it, so long as there's an option to: Click here to ensure that everything you own is destroyed upon your death - nobody needs to know how cheaply you lived!

Daily Deal FAIL

Hello everyone!  Over the coming months, or until boredom takes over, you will find the best of the worst daily deals on the web.  Faily Deals, as nobody calls them, are those deals which you absolutely can't live without...questioning what the hell people were thinking.  Granted they may be useful to you - but that doesn't mean they're not still ridiculous.  Sure, I may consider pet grooming to be important, but why the hell do I need to get $100 at the doggie spa for the low price of $97.85?  In addition to judgmental rants about the usefulness of these random deals, you can also find a treasure trove of the more bizarre (read: disturbing) photos that accompany them.  Have a tip?  Send it along!  An average of 4,300 new deal sites are created every hour (need to check my sources on that) so I'm sure there are a few gems among the burgeoning crap pile that are getting missed.