20 Trendy Items You'll Always Regret Purchasing

In this video, Chelsea talks about the many "trendy" purchases that are always a waste of money, from Instagrammable home items to gimmicky, inedible menu items.

[hannahr.]

Because I'm a note taker and love these videos, and I'm sure a lot of you are too:

1. Popular jean styles (that don't flatter you)
2. Instagram cookware
3. Personalized vitamin blends
4. Instagram pop-up experiences
5. Shirts with weird/super trendy sleeves
6. Over-the-top social media foods
7. Very expensive house paint
8. Fancy planners (if you're not an established planner user)
9. $75 candles
10. Pre-packaged healthy snacks (you can achieve nutritional profile cheaper ways)
11. Canned vodka sodas
12. Plastic full-face visor masks
13. "It" bags/purses
14. "Especially formulated" skin and haircare - you know the types.
15. Finicky houseplants (if you're bad at taking care of plants)
16. Expensive workout clothes
17. Uncomfortable high heels
18. Shedding home decor (pillows, rugs, etc.)
19. Any product sold through a viral tweet
20. Non-machine washable rugs in a house with pets

Save your money, friends.

[hippityhop]

unused fancy planners should have their own support group due to rampant neglect

[starzzzy]

The jeans thing is real. I'm now convinced that jeans shouldn't really go through trends. We should be able to get low, mid-low, mid-, mid-high, or high-rise jeans in different leg cuts whenever and wherever especially online. Also, there is nothing wrong with the color pink for grown-ups. There is something wrong with an expensive pan that gets bad reviews though.

[creatievzyn]

"Over my dead pear-shaped body, " I actually snorted. Being a pre-teen/teenager when low-rise jeans were in during the 2000s was harrowing.

[JennieDubbs]

$75 candles
"They should be illegal, that's my opinion"
I laughed so hard.

[themoneylibrarian]

This whole video is more of a "things I fell for in my 20s that I won't fall for in my 30s" and it is 100% correct.

[TexasToast]

Trend cycles are so short nowadays it’s ridiculous. I’m hoping that they get so short that they just disappear altogether and we enter an era of the height of personal style

[lifebrarian]

As a 31-year-old, the benefit of wasting money on “trends” in your twenties teaches you what you like and what you look good in in your thirties. Chelsea is speaking from 30s hindsight wisdom

[teddiebearbear]

I will only buy high rise jeans. Never buying low riding jeans ever again, those Jr. High days still haunt me.

[kate-ne]

The ✨BEST✨ TFD videos are Chelsea rants. And this one is 25 minutes of a Chelsea rant. I'M HERE FOR IT 🤩

[sarasylvestre]

I have my grandmother’s crock pot and cast iron pan. They literally lasted her a lifetime. I’m sure they’ll serve me for many years.

[caw]

A fact that changed my life: Lowe's has a one-year return policy on any plant, even if it is fried and dead. If you don't have your receipt, they'll give you store credit. I definitely feel silly bringing back crisps of dead plants, but I do NOT feel silly when they hand me essentially a Lowe's gift card in return.

[jrochest]

THANK YOU for open shelving in kitchens and trendy cookware. Cabinets have doors for a reason. I am 60, and got my wonderful expensive set of cookware, 20 years ago, by asking my parents for it for Christmas. Mom has been gone 5 years now, and I think of her every time I use it.

[ishtar]

Chelsea: “stop buying expensive planners if you’re not an established journal-er”
Me, sweating and crying

[xhauntedpassionx]

I find that everybody realises that skinny jeans don't flatter them, but I realised the exact opposite. I think it really depends on what type of shirts people wear with their jeans. As someone who mainly wears oversized sweaters, only extremely tight pants look good on me lol. Oversized sweater + non-skinny jeans = drowning in clothing.

[normairydejesusmieses]

As an interior designer, I can tell, all that she's says about home decor/accessories/gadgets IT'S TRUE. Your home has to be a functional and then good look. At the end of the day, all those "fancy stuff" just elevate your budget and make your daily harder.

[jessicajohnson]

For #12: As a healthcare provider, the clear face shields should be used WITH a mask. They are additional eye protection especially when your patient/client can't wear a mask for a prodecure. The fitted clear masks are for deaf/hard of hearing folks that read lips.

[KikiContrerasNyu]

Here's mine: *fancy lunchboxes* . Now that we're going back to work, those damn CUTE lunchbox and bento companies are TEMPTING MY SOUL. They know I can't resist a poppy flower lunchbox with color coded lids, dressing containers and cutlery. THEY KNOW I'M WEAK.

[ginaplease]

"I actually set myself on fire during our new year's eve fondue party" this is the most Chelsea sentence 😭😭

[MiniNymph]

I very much intend to be in my sixties with no grand children, drinking from glitter unicorn cups in my sparkly party dress.