Friday 5 June 2009

I love Lakeland

The Lakeland catalogue has come. If you spend more than £60 then you can get two red anti bacterial microfibre cloths absolutely free! If I bought everything I wanted, I would have enough of those cloths to open a shop.

I love Lakeland - I adore them. All those wonderful gadgets, promising to make things easier for you, looking so tempting, solving problems that you didn't even know you had. Kitchen porn, I believe it is called, and I can see the connection - the impossible aspirations, the element of fantasy, the occasional need for batteries.

Seriously, great customer service and great quality products are an extremely tempting combination. You cannot find fault with them. But I do want to buy things from them.

For instance, their black washing up sponge - I think it is called jetz scrubz - is far superior to the sort of Madeira cake yellow with green lid ones I have been using. It is actually worth the extra pennies, as it seems to last so much longer as well.

I can see spending looming on the horizon. I really didn't want to, but there is one item that I actually really want and want it soon. And it would be a shame not to get free post and two free cloths...

6 comments:

Morgan said...

Do you want us to talk you out of it, or help you justify it?!?! :-)

I'm chuckling to myself here as I am just like you and go greedily through the Lakeland catalogue, writing myself a list of all the things I want. Top of my list is a £199 set of saucepans - so I am sitting on the list at the moment as I can't justify spending that much!!!!!!!

Morgan

Morgan said...

PS I also have a huge wishlist at amazon, which I look through occasionally.......It's a bad habit!

Morgan

Wannabe Sybil said...

Oh Morgan, I am so bad, I think I want to be talked out of it AND justify it lol!

But I have wanted to get an air purifier for dear heart's room, as mould comes from next door, and they have a nice one in there...

I may just go and have another look through the catalogue, just in case, before little bear finds it.

I feel I should run a sweepstake on how many cloths I will end up with lol.

WS

Wannabe Sybil said...

Also, good pans are an investment, Morgan, and you will only have to buy them once. And with Lakeland's customer service it is almost risk free...

I'm not helping, am I?

I did spend spend an absolute fortune (for me) on a set of pans that cost £100 instead of £199 from a cookware shop and the pans are still in great shape. How many Argos £9.99 specials could you say that about?

My wish list on Amazon is getting alarmingly longer, and as for the 'watched' list on ebay...

WS

sweet blondie blue eyes said...

I love the lakeland catalogue too, it has to go into the bin without being opened otherwise I would brankrupt us. Their after sales service is second to none....

Wannabe Sybil said...

Silversewer - that's the thing! There are great items, great quality, things you cannot easily find elsewhere, great service, if you ring up and speak to someone they are invariably lovely...

And an order went off today...

Oops.