What product MUST you have the brand name of

[Blueberry]

Lays Potato Chips
Ragu Spagetti Sauce
Oscar Mayer Hot Dogs
Diet Pepsi
Frenchs Yellow Mustard

 

[Fire14]

Ragu Sauce
Heinz
Always Maxi Pads

 

[leahannpen]

Another vote for Heinz...there is NO better!

Kraft Cream Cheese

Sargento Cheese

Cottonelle TP

Kleenex... well, kleenex.

Huggies.... thought I DON'T NEED THEM ANY MORE! YAHOO!

Beer too, I agree. Milwaukee's Best is nasty! LOL!

Kraft Macaroni and Cheese... generic is just gross!

That's all I can think of right now.

 

[Micca]

I have lousy luck with generic light bulbs. Went back to buying GE bulbs...I think they really last longer

 

[parrothead365]

Jim Beam.. but I will use generic ice cubes

 

[poohtown]

i can get away with generic on most anything except....

Clorax Clean-Up

I swear I would do a commercial for them in a minute. It's the only thing that seems to get strawberry stains, ice-tea stains, marker, and other misc. spills off my countertops.

I've tried generic and even other name brand cleaners that have bleach in them, but none work as well as Clorax. (gee I do sound like a commercial )

 

[Dan Murphy]

Viva paper towels. Generic is awful, we used to think Bounty was the cat's meow, till we tried Viva, a HUGE difference.

 

[princess pooh]

diet coke
tampax
iam's cat food

Everything else is the store brand.

 

[stacilee]

**Dan, I have to ask, are the Viva towels the ones that are really soft and cloth- like? I think I bought a roll of them recently and then couldn't remember what kind they were when I ran out! LOL


My list:
Kraft Real Mayonaise
Haagen dazs ice cream (coffee)/ DH Vanilla Chocolate Chip
tide with bleach laundry detergent
Yoplait custard style vanilla yougert
Boars Head Lunch meats

 

[Lars624]

Viva is the soft & cloth like paper towel It's our favorite.
Other things I'm picky about the brands of are...
Heinz Ketchup
Miracle Whip
Scott TP
Cheez-its

 

[Saffron]

Diet Pepsi and Diet Pepsi Vanilla.

For flavored coffees I only like Javana Chocolate Raspberry or Bucks County (all kinds of flavors, especially coconut), or Geunardi's Toasted Pecan Cinnamon Roll and Chocolate Raspberry, no others. But I will put generic brand creamer and sugar in them.

I don't like generic brand dishwashing liquid soap either, it has to be Ajax or Polmolive or Dawn. The generics are too thinned out and don't last as long in the water as the name brands.

 

[lulugirl]

Playtex tampons

 

[chrissie123]

Heinz anything (ketchup, beans. soup etc)

 

[cgcw]

Motrin & Tylenol. I now always buy the brand name. I originally thought it was only the advertising that made the difference in price. But, when my kids have been the most sick, the store brand just didn't hold up like the name brand.

Coffee -- Hills brothers
Beer -- Miller bottles only
Ziploc bags -- the store brand just don't work as well
Coke -- DH won't drink the store brands

 

[Beanie]

I must be the minority...I will ONLY buy Hunt's Ketchup!

Sprite
French's Mustard
Q-Tips

 

[Dan Murphy]

stacilee, Viva is very soft, very absorbent. Not sure how cloth like, though it is also quite strong, does not almost dissolve in its use, LOL. Generic is like using wax paper to us, Bounty, the previous hit with us, was much better, but still does not come close to Viva. I have no idea the cost differential.

Looking over these names, I see a good number that we too buy, most often.

 

[Phrebert]

Asics Running Shoes are the only shoes that don't hurt my feets.

 

[Otto's Doll]

Originally posted by Beanie
I must be the minority...I will ONLY buy Hunt's Ketchup!

Too funny.. for us it is Del Monte!
We will only buy Campbell's Tomato Soup,
Prego Spagetti sauce,
Helmann's mayo,
B&M beans,
Florida's Natural OJ,
Tetley Tea,
Nutro Pet Food,
Philadelphia Cream Cheese, and
Skippy Peanut Butter

 

[Dan Murphy]

Beanie!!!!! Goodness, we have to do these product evaluations more often, welcome back!!!! Great to see you!!!!

 

[tar heel]

Saran wrap -- amazing how much better it is than the cheap stuff
Heinz ketchup

toilet paper -- Several brands are acceptable but generic, Scott (DH doesn't like the single ply) and Charmin (I think it's to linty) are not.