There is shop in Riga, several of them in fact, called Tiger. There are branches in Britain too. I don’t know about other cities.
It sells pretty crap!
Don't get me wrong. I know that a great many of you reading this will like Tiger and similar shops like it purely because you love the idea of filling your homes with pretty crap.
In its shop window I can see pretty cardboard suitcases, pretty ornamental rabbits and cushions in the shape of a salmon....a salmon....yes a salmon.
Tiger is a Danish company so Denmark must be full of homes that are crammed to the brim with novelty soap dishes and snail shaped watering cans.
We live in a world where people are dying trying to cross the Med or dying in Bangladeshi factory collapses so they can make this stuff that we westerners see as being vital to make us happy.
To be fair , I have bought stuff at Tiger. But the endless amount of tat they seem to sell constantly erodes my soul. Seeing Latvian teenagers getting excited over a novelty cheese grater makes me long for a time when they sit on street corners Drinking cheap cider.
Austerity is not happening. Just ask in in Tiger. People are not supposed to have disposable income in our society. People in Greece are struggling to survive on what they have. People in the UK go to food banks to feed their kids. In Latvia homelessness is growing. Yet people all over Europe seem to spend container loads of cash on seemingly pointless stuff. Is that right?
#tiger
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