You wanna know a hilariously idiotic example of renaming a product so you can sell it for a price hike? Compare the prices of "tackle boxes" and "art supply boxes." One is most often under $20. One is almost always over. And if you go into an arts and crafts store, it's often over that by a massive amount.

And they are the same. Damn. Boxes.

Compare this to this, in the three-tray variations of each.

It has never made me not bitterly amused at the greed of it.

They are literally the same boxes, made of the same shit, in the same factories, from the same molds, but one set has "outdoors" logos pasted on it and the other has "art" logos pasted on it, and that's all that's needed to create a price bump.

Of often more than 50%.

Important things I learned in art college 629857.

Even the professors were like "Do not go to the art supply store and buy your storage boxes. Go to the outdoors sections of the big-box stores and buy tackle boxes. You're welcome."

This one is a really insidious form of the so-called Pink Tax

and tackle boxes are the best!

LOL right???

They really are, they're great for storing so much stuff!

also i'm pretty sure tackle boxes will be more durable

like for real, i am absolutely convinced they use better materials for a 'tool' and that will last longer than whatever the fuck they use for a 'hobby'

yeah, I had wondered about that, too. Honestly, a lot of the "art" bins seem like they are made of the cheaper plastic.

the same way i buy clothes meant for guys if i can

women's clothes cost more but they're thinner because they can get away with it

the whole layering style needs to die

Eeeeeh, at my size, men's clothes (except tshirts, because womens tshirts never. fucking. come in my size) have weird fits that aren't quite right, at least in the hip region.

Aw that sucks

my mens-jeans hack: I buy them a bit too long, then re-hem the cuffs, and use the material I just shaved off to sew on more belt loops.