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How much easier do we need it?

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I saw an Amazon list the other day of helpful products that are supposed to make our life easier, and after looking at them I had to wonder….

Are we really lazy enough to need them?

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Call me crazy, but I don’t consider closing the toothpaste a hardship.

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Sorry, stepping on an empty can has always satisfied me.

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Chicken shredder… or medieval torture device?

Tough call.

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Okay, they’ve got me here. It’s both useful and adorable.

But I can’t figure why this last one will make anyone’s life easier…

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Even if it is the spitting image of Lord Dudley Mountcatten…

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I wonder if he should ask for residuals.

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A successful return.

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Our trip to Portland the other day had a destination other than my husband’s face on the itinerary… and that was Edgecomb Pottery. A high end artsy gallery where my thoughtful spouse likes to shop for gifts.

And as we walked around? it was obvious just how much he enjoys shopping there.

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See that bird?

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Here’s mine.

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See that lamp?

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Yup.

Have one of those too.

Our reason for shopping that day was the return of the thoughtful (but odd, and not my taste) bracelet my husband had given me for my birthday.

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I love that he tries, but he rarely scores a win when buying me jewelry so we exchange quite often.

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This was my substitution piece. Hard to tell by the photo, but it’s gold and silver intertwined.

❤️

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Calendar shopping is not what it used to be.

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With the closure of so many brick and mortar stores, I admit I do a lot more Amazon shopping than I used to. And as much as I dislike the idea of lining the already full to bursting pockets of Jeff Bezos, it’s hard to argue with the ease and convenience he provides.

Will I get in the car and drive an hour to the mall, fight the last minute Christmas shopping crowds and drive an hour back through mad traffic just to purchase my yearly calendar?

I will not.

I’ll just sit on the couch, cruise Amazon, push a button and have it in my mailbox in two days.

Of course, calendar shopping isn’t what it used to be.

As proof, I offer these three selections that popped up during my search.

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Uh… no thanks.

I see enough of that in person.

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That’s a definite hard pass. I don’t need twelve months of rhinoceros urination.

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Price drop?

I can’t imagine why those aren’t flying off the shelf.

So I ask again, who buys these things and why are they so preoccupied with poop?

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I’m so blue.

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Well, I’m not yet. But it looks like I’m going to be because every single furniture store I’ve shopped is dedicated to that color.

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I’m looking for two couches, a chair and an ottoman in this hardback, rolled arm style. The couches will be solid, the chair and pillows a coordinating pattern.

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All the floor samples are beige, which is fine… it’s not like I want neon orange. But the decided lack of color in the fabric choices is driving me batty.

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The fabrics are pretty…

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But I swear they’re all blue and grey.

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Everywhere.

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At every store.

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My kitchen and breakfast nook are blue and grey.

My den is blue and beige.

My spare bathroom is blue and grey.

Which is why my living room has always been green.

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But it looks like that’s not happening this time around.

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I’m going to be blue.

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Furniture shopping chuckles.

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A few things seen and chortled over on my furniture shopping adventures.

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Graceland called… the Jungle Room wants its chair back.

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I like dogs.

But no that fabric.

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I can’t even…

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The first thing that crossed my mind with this fabric?

Rorschach tests.

I see… a bat driving a motorcycle.

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Giant horse head decorative items… when you’re going for that Godfather feel.

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Apparently canine prints are in this year.

But I’m crying foul as I didn’t see any cat fabric.

Lord Dudley Mountcatten is feeling slighted.

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Grey, grey… go away.

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Furniture shopping continues and I’ve realized like everything else in my life it’s not going to be easy.

Though we have numerous stores and what seems like endless choices, if you’re like me and buck trends… there’s going to be trouble.

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In every one of the six stores I’ve visited so far?

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Grey. White. A little blue…

And more grey.

While I have nothing against the color per se, variety is the spice of life and when it comes to decor I need some.

And please don’t tell me corporate only displays one vision and I can choose different fabrics.

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Because in store after store?

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95% of those are grey as well.

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Friends are so helpful.

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Once the new floors are in, it will be time for new furniture. I’ve done some preliminary scouting of living room sets…

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And my friends, being the helpful chums that they are, have been sending me pictures of possible replacement pieces.

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Is it a bed?

A chair?

A table or an entertainment center?

Clearly it’s all of the above and I don’t want any of them.

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Oh no, hell no.

I don’t want that either.

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Clearly their idea of joy and mine differ greatly.

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It’s that time of year.

Time for every social media site you visit to bombard you with Christmas gift ideas.

Don’t know what to get grumpy Uncle Ulrich? We have just the thing.

Have a hard to please MIL? No problem.

Of course with my weirdo algorithms you know the suggestions are going to be a little…. off.

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Do I need 3 bottles of anal gland spray to feel joy?

I most definitely do not.

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Will my friends and family cheerfully cherish fuzzy cat testicles clipped to their dashboard?

A few weirdos might, but in general?

No.

🤣

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As seen in Wal Mart.

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I was in Wal Mart the other day, innocently walking through the health and beauty section looking for some reading glasses.

We call them cheaters and I swear the older I get the more I need a pair in every single room of the house and two in the kitchen.

I’m old y’all.

And while I admit I have a hard time reading the fine print on labels, I didn’t have any trouble identifying these products when I turned the corner in search of eyeball magnification.

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Tush toys?

Vibrating rings?

Little suckers?

Shelf upon shelf of …. accessories.

And to think I used to take my mother shopping here.

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I wish I could laugh about it, but I’m not there yet.

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Remember the long searched for door we bought the other day?

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The one the salesman assured us was rated for exterior use?

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Turns out it wasn’t.

And according to our contractor, it’s not even close.

Of course it wasn’t what we needed. This is a renovation project at our house where all attempts to improve things are doomed.

Destined to fail.

And more than likely cursed by an angry pickle God.

As I said previously, I’m done. We will take this useless door back to the store and send our contractor out to buy the next one. Maybe he’ll have better luck.

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