BeigeJournal

My brother made an interesting observation recently. Our lives are filled with automobile advertising. Every commercial break has several car ads. Billboards advertise cars and car dealers. Newspapers and magazines are filled with car ads. There are numerous magazines which are essentially entirely car ads of one variety or another. These are not cheap ads, either. Yet how often do you actually buy a car? Years go by without a thought to the next car purchase. One has to wonder what fraction of the price of the car goes to pay for the three-thousand-odd consecutive days of advertising since the last car purchase.

I also see mattress ads every day, yet mattress purchases make car purchases seem frequent by comparison, and mattresses are much cheaper than cars, though the ads are cheaper-looking than car ads, to match the lower price of the product.