“Harbinger households” consistently buy products that get discontinued (2019)

Re:“Harbinger households” consistently buy products that get... by dotancohen on Thursday June 23, 2022 @05:50AM (#31846901)

  > Shoes are this way for a lot of people, in that some of us can keep a
  > pair of shoes long enough that the next fashion cycle has happened and
  > you can't find anything like that again.

Timberland has terrific office-looking-from-the-top shoes, rugged gravel-traversing-and-non-slippery-from-the-bottom shoes circa 2016 when I bought a pair. What I wouldn't do to find another pair of shoes like this now.

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Re:“Harbinger households” consistently buy products that get... by BoxOfRain on Thursday June 23, 2022 @06:00AM (#31846977)

I went into surgery a couple of months ago and it was such a hurry my Timberlands disappeared into the hospital along with my appendix. It'd be pretty churlish to hold a grudge over this given they literally saved my life but I do miss those shoes!

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Re:“Harbinger households” consistently buy products that get... by brewdad on Thursday June 23, 2022 @07:33PM (#31856377)

You should send the hospital a bill. $5000 for a pair of shoes, discounted down 95% to $250 so it seems reasonable.

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Re:“Harbinger households” consistently buy products that get... by BoxOfRain on Friday June 24, 2022 @05:30AM (#31859489)

Fortunately this was in the UK, while I am privately covered because the poor old NHS is too under-resourced at the moment to be much good for treating chronic diseases that won't kill you they're still second to none for emergency surgery. Efficiently in and out, doctors couldn't have been friendlier or more competent, and it didn't cost me a penny.

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Re:“Harbinger households” consistently buy products that get... by dotancohen on Friday June 24, 2022 @05:52AM (#31859632)

Did you go back and thank them?

And take a gander at the shoes they're wearing? ))

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