Family Forced To Host Intervention After Mum Discovers Temu

VICKI DERWENT | Lifestyle | CONTACT

After years of having a mother that refused to use any form of online shopping, a Betoota family has been rocked by their matriarch’s addiction to cheap online shopping platform, Temu.

52 year old, Sharon Smith, had always seen online shopping as a scam and would have much rather stroll around a busy Westfield for 4 hours.

Until one day after ordering a wig for a dress up party off Temu, she realised just how easy it was.

“It was so easy and so cheap, only $2 for my Marie Antoinette wig, are you serious?” Sharon said.

“Then to make the $10 delivery worth it I added a couple other useful household items.”

But what started as a couple “useful” household things ended up being a $200 order straight from the factories in China.

Sharon’s son, 18 year old Elliott Smith couldn’t believe the amount of useless crap showing up around the family home.

“We’ve got like this ocean themed toilet cover? Like okay?” Elliott told the Advocate.

“She also bought this sign for the dishwasher that says if it’s dirty or clean, like just open it and you’ll know which it is.”

Sharon’s family grew concerned over her unethical shopping habits when more and more parcels kept getting delivered to the house.

“I tried explaining to her that they use child labour to make her silk robes but she just wasn’t having a bar of it” Elliott told our reporter.

“Dad even had to sit her down after a cheap poster of the Parisian skyline ended up covering half of his bedroom wall.”

Sharon’s family’s intervention was more successful than they thought after spotting Sharon looking up the dangers of Temu on her ChatGPT app.

“That’s a challenge for another day, gotta take the small wins you know” Sam said exhausted.

More to come.