Vitamins a waste of money?

A lot of us spend lots of money on big things and little things, from cars to vitamins.
Even spending 5 dollars a week on a product can add up, especially if you're doing this with many additional products. This will soon add up to a lot of money.

So in general, where can we save money?
Brand names: Sometimes brand names are better, some time they are not especially with items such as grocery foods. Are you paying for your ego and the label, or is the product actually better (keeping in mind you can pay 2 to 3 times more for a branded product), is it worth paying 3 times more for the logo? Have you tried the cheaper product and the more expensive product and compared them? I challenge anyone to tell the difference between items such as pasta, flour, salt, butter, vitamins, cleaning products, and many more. With some I admit there is a difference, but I've even found some name brand items to be better, such as peanut butter. Kraft peanut butter tastes like oily faeces.

A lot of the difference is psychological as well, since many of these products are made in the exact same factory, so you are essentially getting the exact same product a lot of the time, just in a different package.
If one company compared to it's no name competitor has to use fancy expensive packaging, spend on marketing and tv advertising, then their product has no choice but to be more expensive to cover those costs! Price does not equal quality.

Vitamin pills and supplements: Why all of a sudden in human being history is everyone thinking they require a daily vitamin supplement? We have survived as a species for hundreds of thousands of years, without additional vitamin supplements. But now acai berry juice, vitamin water and other snake oil is a must have daily item. Think about it, doctors aren't the ones recommending that we spend hundreds of dollars a month on expensive supplements from American multi-level marketing companies such as Usana, it is the marketers themselves trying to make money from you for their benefit, not your health benefit.

Consumable goods such as Usana's products are one of the biggest wastes of money the world has ever known, and do nothing for you except lighten your wallet, and probably make your urine yellow.

Do you know why vitamins, especially those containing vitamin B make your urine yellow? Because the the vitamins are passing straight through your body, and not being absorbed. As you can see vitamins are a total waste of money. Joining a company like Usana to try and sell a product and pills that are a waste seems like a crazy idea to me.