The 2024 Super Bowl ad that stuck out to me is the “Oooo Ooooo Tumu” ad.
The earworm jingle. The weird animated characters. The swaths of bright orange. It really pushed that branding over and over in the ad. The ad itself played like five to six times.
The next morning I thought I’d check out what this temu site is about. Whoa. It’s just a bunch of cheap crap. And literally nothing that would appeal to me on the homepage. Just random stuff. Women’s wear, targets for guns, crystals. Whut.
But there is some fun stuff on Temu
But then I tried some searches, like Weird Toys. Then a whole world opened up. Lots of fun cheap toys. The types of toys you keep in a desk drawer.
Some specific searches worked well too. Like, monkey statue, embroidery patch. I’ve been wanting something to help me score greeting cards (make a folding line), and yup, they have a scoring board.
However, Temu doesn’t have everything. Things I couldn’t find on Temu:
- Anything about Star Wars. No ewoks.
- Anything with Chicago Cubs stuff. Although I did find a cute cub embroidery patch.
- Tiny angel statues/figures (like the ones you’d find at Christmas)
- Biblical figures (other than ones you’d find in a nativity)
- Estonia items (I thought there would be a ton of the generic stuff with a country name put into a blank)
- Illinois flags
- Lenticular items (like a lenticular poster or lenticular bookmarks)
- Holograms (but there are hologram scratch-off stickers)
- ACEO-sized pieces of wood. They have lots of wood cards in various sizes, but none in the ACEO size of 2.5″ x 3.5″
Here are the items I have in my shopping cart:
I kept the stuff in my Temu shopping cart. When I buy stuff I don’t need online, I always wait overnight until I complete the purchase.
Shopping cart long-term
Last night I had about $60 of random stuff in my shopping cart. When I signed in, it jumped to $115 of stuff. My first thought was this is some sort of trick, they add stuff to my shopping cart so I unknowingly buy more. However, when I looked closer at the items that were added, these were items I added TWO years ago.
About 4 of the 8 items added were no longer available. I don’t know if they sold out, or the stores closed. But I found it interesting that it kept my shopping cart for two years.
Now will I buy this stuff? I might give it another day.