MAYHEM

So its been over a week since Christmas and everyone is going crazy already. We've had New Year mayhem and although everyone has made numerous resolutions, including my parents- "I must exercise, I must not each chocolate, I must lose a gazillion pounds" no one is doing anything to address the major problems of the UK at the moment. We have been warned that 2012 is going to be even tougher than 2011 due to the eurozone crisis and the heavily hitting recession that is engulfing everyone across the world. 2012 calls for more redundancies to be made across the nation;  however perhaps the Olympics will bring more revenue to the country although so far it has costing billions leading us even further into debt.

mate you got some work to do

The crazy thing is while this is all going on everyone is hitting the high streets and shopping in the sales spending hundreds of pounds on 'bargains'. To be fair I've done the same i got two t-shirts from Topshop, a pair of Chinese slippers and a pair of H&M cloggy sandals but ya know something has to be done when we are in this state of economy. A box just arrived for my mum from Space N.K filled to the brim with products, full of gift sets and miscellaneous items and she's claiming that 'its all from the sale darling and I ordered loads of gifts for different people'. Two words: BULL SHIT. People believe that they need an plausauble excuse to order masses of the internet and they don't but it just strikes me how unnescary all the sale items we buy are. So many people grab up dreadful items that are absolutely disgusting but because its £3 they suddenly feel the need to buy it.

The worst is the big designer sales at Harrods, Harvey Nics and Selfridges. Selfridges marked its first day of the sales on Boxing Day with its busiest ever single hour of trade in which £1.3 million was made! Masses queued outside for hours hoping to get a great bargain however this is really just a false hope. All these designer items are maybe 50% or 60% off but still if they were sold on the high street and you just removed the branding then they would be a third or less of their original price.  I know I say all this and the next year I will go back again and buy a considerable amount from the sales but all I can say that if the country is behaviving all manic and crazy about a few items of clothes going on sale, thousands queuing up hours before the shop opens and even two stabbings occuring then we really are in trouble when it comes to our economy.

shoppers running into Selfridges after queuing for hours
wooooooww