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So I bought a ring on Etsy.

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It’s a nice ring.

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Sterling silver with aquamarine.

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It seems well made and wasn’t expensive.

Problem?

It doesn’t fit.

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I wanted it for a large finger on my right hand and ordered the size 10 1/2 I always wear on that finger.

Clearly this wasn’t a 10 1/2.

I contacted the seller, who turned out to be Prateek from India.

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Uh, no you didn’t.

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You sent me a 9 1/2 to 10.

And when I sent Prateek this picture (of the ring sizer I bought to avoid problems exactly like this) to prove it?

He never replied.

Grrr.

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Etsy picks.

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Every once in a while I cruise Etsy because they have some wonderfully creative things. Some are useful….

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(Though a few decades late for me.)

Some are… not.

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Personally I don’t feel the need for a human dog bed…

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But if you do? Know that I am rolling my eyes at the thought of you sitting in that giant floor pillow… and so is your dog.

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This was kind of cute until I read what it was for.

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Dermatillomania is an obsessive skin picking disorder, and judging from the bestseller status of this product… it’s more common that I thought.

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This.

For when you really want to feel like you’re sitting on the throne.

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Etsy, I hardly knew you.

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A few years ago I was mindlessly cruising the internet and discovered Etsy. There are some fabulous jewelry designers selling on that platform and I fell down the rabbit hole quite quickly. Falling can be dangerous, not to mention expensive… so I make a point of avoiding it now.

Until Facebook decided I needed to go back and purchase this rather strange assortment of items.

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Um… no.

If I can’t have an authentic mummified head from the Ptolemaic dynasty? No fully toothed polymerised head will do.

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For the love of all that’s holy, no.

What the utter f*ck!

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Interesting, but alas we have already built our man cave bar. For considerably fewer thousands.

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All season cat shelter?

It’s a Rubbermaid tub with holes. I’ll pass.

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Sure. Nothing could go wrong here.

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Support your carefree jumping youngster with two eyelet hooks that are already splitting the wallboard.

No problem there.

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Punk be pricey.

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I’ve always been attracted to steampunk. Equal parts creativity and recycling, you never know what kind of design you’ll find. And then there’s the sheer weirdo factor. Who doesn’t love that?

So when Facebook popped up with some Etsy suggestions I was intrigued.

Until I saw the prices.

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Damn.

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Punk be pricey.

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And Lord knows I love a good ray gun as well as the next girl…

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But I could hear my checkbook screaming no! from across the room.

Or maybe that was my husband.

Tough call.

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They also can’t spell possibilities correctly, but you get the idea.

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