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Irelandpenguinz0 questions what fills SKIMS' $148 advent calendar
Hair ties, bobby pins and a defense of the daily surprise become the focus of his holiday-shopping commentary.
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$150 for This Trash is Disgusting
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- 0:56The target is SKIMS' $148 accessories advent calendar, whose contents penguinz0 argues don't justify its price.
- 3:50An included unboxing shows hair ties, bobby pins and clips coming out of the calendar.
- 6:46He reads the official product description and item list, contrasting the accessories with SKIMS' clothing business.
- 9:51A TikTok creator defends the daily experience; penguinz0 counters that the objection is about value, not gift size.
- 14:33Parody clips recreate the calendar's assortment with objects found beneath a couch or refrigerator.
A pocket trumpet taught penguinz0 something about disappointing purchases. He opens "$150 for This Trash is Disgusting" by recalling his own regrettable buy, before turning to a holiday box he thinks offers an even harder sell.
The subject is Kim Kardashian's SKIMS accessories advent calendar, priced at $148. Rather than clothing, its compartments contain small accessories and trinkets, including hair elastics, bobby pins, clips and a bear keychain. For penguinz0, the gap between the price and those contents is the whole problem.
He shows a TikTok unboxing by westsloppyswollen, then works through the product's own item list. His criticism isn't simply that the gifts are small. It's that a clothing brand has assembled an accessories assortment whose value, in his view, doesn't justify the bill. His estimates of what the contents and packaging cost are part of that argument, not established production costs.
The video also includes a counterargument: another TikTok creator says an advent calendar is about the daily experience, rather than a succession of big presents. He rejects that distinction as an answer to the price complaint.
Viewers pick up on the assortment itself, comparing it with convention freebies and questioning the role of a foam squishy among the accessories. The video eventually reaches parody clips in which people recreate the calendar by searching beneath furniture, turning his value-for-money objection into a household scavenger hunt.
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I think the foam squishy thing is only in there because it lets them say the "more" in "hair accessories, keychains and more"
@pokalokaplaceSee it on YouTubeThis is just a box of leftover convention freebies for 150$ 😂😂
@the_silver_smurferSee it on YouTubeI feel like paying $150 for an advent calendar is ridiculous to begin with.
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For 150, you'd think it would have 25 items of useless junk, but no instead it's 12.
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Which instrument does penguinz0 recall regretting buying at the start of this video?
He opens with his disappointing pocket-trumpet purchase before introducing the SKIMS calendar.