Saturday at the NEC, the Caravan and Motorhome Show October 2024 and we're back in the house unscathed. Only thirteen pounds and ninety nine pence spent on one new item. A bag for the folding recliners. I am a happy shopper!
Wow, there were a lot of people there. Many, many, people all attracted by the many, many, shiny, shiny caravans and motorhomes and trailer tents and awnings and collapsable washing up basins and kettles and gleaming porta potties and chemicals to keep them all shining and gleaming and salesmen galore urging you to buy the latest model of vans, campers, hoovers, teepees, tellies, brushes and all sorts of other amazing new stuff that you never knew you needed, stuff other people knew you needed but you didn't, stuff you knew you needed ( a bag for the chairs) but nobody else did and stuff nobody, including you, knew you needed. It's Johari's Window Shopping! Fortunatley, the lovely salesmen and traders are there to help you make sense of it all.
I watched a chap demonstrate something called a cheese mill. At the end of the demonstartion I walked away convinced that there was a hole in my life that could only possibly be filled by a cheese mill. With all the accessories! He told me I didn't HAVE to buy the cheese mill at the show today, that I could find it online or on ITV, but if I did buy it today I would get all the accessories with it. All of
them! Wow! What a great deal! I could get one for my mother, my sister, my mother in law, my kids. What great Christmas presents the Cheese Mill would be! But the urge to buy wore off over lunch as I realised, despite watching the demonstration very carefully, I didn't really know what the cheese mill did. I'm not even sure that there was any cheese involved, to be honest.
The chap was very enthusiastic about his cheese mill, as was the man demonstarting some squeegy brush thing that got grime off your windows and left them sparkling clean. He held his audience spellbound and I walked away before I fell under his spell. There was another guy hoovering up lentils with his amazing hoover. I'd never realised that hoovering lentils could be so problematic! It needn't be any more!
And why do you need this stuff? Because you haven't got it. If you have got it, the one the salesman has is better. How is it better? It's new and improved! It's got a heated steering wheel! The lights change colour! It's got a heated toilet seat! It's got bluetooth! The toilet's got bluetooth! (I have just googled Bluetooth Toilet and there is, incredibly, such a thing. Smart toilets come with bluetooth, they have built in bidet functions with cleanse mode rear and frontal, it will give you a pulsating massage and they come with a rimless pan! Blimey! Who doesn't want a cleansed rear and frontal! And all controllable through an app! I wonder what happens if your internet goes down?
Anyway, I am very pleased with my purchase. Putting the folding recliners in a proper bag in the garage of the van will make packing so much easier and cut down on the rattling. Life changing? No, not life changing, it's not a bluetooth toilet after all. Now, if only I'd bought that Cheese mill. I really got the impression that that thing was definitley life enhancing. I wonder what it does?
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