The memories function on Meta (cringe) likes to remind me of the time I was in an MLM scheme in 2015. My smiling face holding up a dust mitt like it’s the best dust mitt I’ve ever seen in my entire life! Truth is, it was the only dust mitt I’d ever seen and it was pretty good but $25.99 good? No. Join my team so I can make more money off of you good? No.
I sunk way too much money into that MLM. Not nearly as much as some though and I felt bad for those ladies. Thousands of dollars in product and marketing materials. The products are good! they’d all exclaim because they were good, still are. Why can’t they just be sold in stores then? Could they still sell a dust mitt for $25.99 at Canadian Tire? I don’t know, let’s see. A quick google search for “Dust mitt” shows this:
I’ll admit that $28.95 for a donkey dusting mitt is a steal. That’s going on my wish list, for sure.
Okay so, back to the dusting mitt in question. As we can see from this screenshot of a Google search for “Dust mitt”, the average cost of a microfiber dust mitt is around $7.88, excluding Fred, he’s in a class of his own. What do you get from the $25.99 dust mitt? You get a desperate woman trying to sell you stock that she’s had forever OR she’s trying to meet her monthly minimum so she can stay in the MLM without having to pay a fee to join again. It doesn’t even have a donkey face on it.
Granted, this quick Google search led to a commercial cleaning supplies supplier so fine, you can’t just walk into a Canadian Tire and buy one for $8 but that’s what I’m getting at, you should be able to.
I’m about to go use my expensive dust mitt and I’m going to remember sitting in a weekly meeting with fellow MLM members, feeling like it was all wrong for some reason. Knowing that they had spent quite a bit of money to be there and they might be feeling the same way. Like something wasn’t quite right about all this.
I still have friends who sell MLM products. I don’t look down on them. I have bought products from them because the products are good and they don’t hound me like their Leaders tell them to. What I really want is for these MLM products to be sold on store shelves and for the MLM companies to admit to being pyramid schemes.
Wishful thinking, hey?
If you made it to the bottom of this weird discussion on dust mitts and are wondering if it’s a bad word, it is not, according to Urban Dictionary. I did not click on the other “mitts” though. That’s fun for another day.
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