Cinoclav's Field of 32 Day 25

I can’t believe we’ve made it this far. The Sweaty Sixteen is now a thing of the past and we move on to the next round. Welcome to the Master Eight everyone! My monthly goat duties are starting to wind down while the competition is heating up. All you voters have eliminated the riffraff (and some pretty cool stuff that made people sad when they lost) and have left eight classic meh items to vie for the championship. The oddball items like Candy Corn and Neoprene Cases have been retired and put out to pasture, while Plasma Lighters and Fidget Spinners were last seen headed off to Korea to participate in some shitty carbon copy of the Field of 32. While we say goodbye to 24 old friends, we bring back one of our favorites. The Knives sliced and diced the Backpacks/Laptop Bags 33 to 13 and shall continue on.

To kick off the first round of our Master Eight we revisit Power Banks and Dyson/Shark Vacs. There’s really not much specific to be said about either item that I haven’t already mentioned in the first couple of rounds. So let’s talk about what entices us to buy these things in the first place. Power Banks are quite obviously a useful item. Almost everyone has electronics that need to be charged. I’d go so far as to say that on a site like meh, at least 95% of us have some sort of smartphone that tends to drain reasonably quick. A few of us might even have one draining away in a drawer, leery of breaking it out and exploring all it has to offer. (Do we know anyone like that? Anyone at all? Anyone we love that has a thing for purple?) But that’s okay, because one day it WILL be put to use and it WILL eventually drain and need to be recharged. And what do you do if you’re out and about and don’t have access to an actual electrical outlet? Right, you use your Power Bank. Hopefully you remembered to charge that too, otherwise none of this really makes any sense. It’s all kind of magical and we’re really a spoiled lot to have this wizardry available. But as much as we enjoy the ability to charge our items on the fly, do we truly need Power Banks? No, they’re a luxury item, even when they’re dirt cheap on a discount deal a day website. And that right there is why we keep buying them. Admit it, you’ve bought several of them because they’re a cheap luxury item and you keep thinking one is better than the last. Dyson/Shark Vacs on the other hand are an item that we deem essential if we have any kind of flooring that requires more than a wet mop. We all grew up with a vacuum in our homes and we don’t even question the fact that we should have one. This is the reason they have been one of the most in-demand products on deal sites. We all need one, we all want a good one, and we all want it cheap. It’s an exquisitely simple concept. But most people I know don’t have more than two vacuums maximum. (Off the top of my head I have 5 different types of vacuums in the house. I really don’t know what’s wrong with me.) So the big question is, would you end up buying more Dyson/Shark Vacs if the price was more in line with Power Banks? Would we all have a bunch of vacuums scattered around the house? When friends stop over and question why the hell you have 9 vacuums, wouldn’t it seem perfectly reasonable to respond, “Because they’re cool and they were only $10 each.” After much, alright… after little thought I’ve come to a conclusion. We buy these things because we value a ridiculously good deal on the same level that we consider an item to be a necessity. Or I could be completely wrong. I’m not a professional in this field and to be honest, it doesn’t matter much why we buy this stuff. Just keep buying it so this special little website is here for years to come. Now go forth mehtizens and Master Eight!