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Honest Product Reviews, Buying Guides & Travel Advice
ShouldIBuyThisCrap.com is about one simple question: Is this crap actually worth buying?
Honest Reviews of Stuff You Actually Buy
We cover the things people spend real money on: appliances, technology, computer hardware, tools, cleaning equipment, guitar gear, pet products, kitchen gadgets, household products, and whatever other crap happens to wander through the door.
Our product reviews aren’t here to convince you that everything is fantastic.
We look at what works, what doesn’t, how well something holds up over time, whether it’s worth the price, and who should actually buy it. If something is great, we’ll tell you why. If it’s overpriced, poorly designed, unnecessarily complicated, or an impressive achievement in turning plastic into disappointment, we’ll tell you that too.
The goal isn’t to sell you more crap.
It’s to help you buy better crap.
Buying Guides Without the Sales Pitch
Sometimes you don’t need another review telling you a product has buttons.
You need to know which product is actually worth your money.
Our buying guides compare products based on practical considerations like features, durability, usability, maintenance, price, and long-term value.
Whether you’re shopping for a washer and dryer, computer component, vacuum, guitar accessory, tool, kitchen gadget, or dog product, we try to answer the question that matters:
Would we actually spend our own money on it?
Sometimes the answer is yes.
Sometimes the answer is, dear God, no.
Travel Guides for People Who Actually Go Places
Apparently we occasionally leave the house.
Our travel guides, destination reviews, road-trip guides, camping guides, hotel reviews, and attraction reviews focus on what a place is actually like to visit.
That includes the famous stuff worth seeing, the overlooked stuff that’s surprisingly good, practical information that helps you plan your trip, and the occasional supposedly “must-see” attraction that makes you wonder precisely who decided that.
We especially love Colorado travel, road trips, camping, scenic destinations, historic sites, and unusual places, but we’re interested in anywhere worth burning gasoline or airline miles to reach.
The same philosophy applies here as it does to our product reviews:
Tell people what it’s really like.
Real Experience Beats Marketing Copy
There are already approximately nine billion websites capable of repeating the manufacturer’s specifications.
We don’t need to become number nine-billion-and-one.
When we’ve owned something for years, we’ll talk about long-term reliability. When something breaks, we’ll talk about that too. When maintenance is surprisingly easy, unnecessarily miserable, or requires three screwdrivers and vocabulary your grandmother would’ve objected to, that’s useful information.
We want our reviews and guides to answer the questions we’d want answered before spending our own money.
Not:
“What innovative lifestyle solutions does this product provide?”
But:
“Is this thing actually any good?”
That’s the entire idea behind ShouldIBuyThisCrap.com.
Reviews, Travel Guides & Stuff You Didn’t Ask For
Of course, being useful all the time sounds exhausting.
So we also publish satire, ridiculous news, observational humor, questionable historical reporting, and stories inspired by the absurdity of everyday life.
Sometimes we’re reviewing a washing machine.
Sometimes we’re visiting a national park.
Sometimes we’re investigating why a middle-aged man’s eyebrows have apparently decided to annex his field of vision.
It’s a diverse operation.
Come for the comedy, stay for the honest reviews, buying advice, travel guides, and useful information.
Whether we’re making fun of something stupid or figuring out whether a $500 piece of crap is actually worth buying, the goal remains the same:
Cut through the bullshit, have a few laughs, and hopefully send you away knowing something you didn’t know before.
So, Should I Buy This Crap?
That’s what we’re here to figure out.
Browse our product reviews, buying guides, travel guides, camping guides, tech reviews, appliance reviews, guitar gear reviews, cleaning gear reviews, pet product reviews, and assorted questionable journalism.
We’ll tell you what we liked.
We’ll tell you what we hated.
And we’ll do our best to tell you whether something is actually worth your money.
Because there’s plenty of crap in the world.
You might as well buy the good crap.
Disclaimer
Welcome to ShouldIBuyThisCrap.com, where “crap” means “stuff you can buy,” not “stuff I think is garbage.” If I do think it’s garbage, trust me, I’ll say so loudly. Everything here represents my own opinions and experiences. Products can perform differently depending on how they’re used, and your experience may differ from mine. Some pages contain affiliate links. As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases. If you’re a company reading this: relax. If your product gets a bad rating, make better crap. If your product gets a good rating, congratulations. You made good crap. Either way, please don’t sue me.