Category Archives: shopping

Ho. Ho. Hammacher Schlemmer. Ho.

By Linda | Published November 20, 2008

You can’t say it without smiling, and you can’t say it properly after a few Friday afternoon cocktails. (I know, but it’s Friday afternoon somewhere, and besides it sounded much better than Thursday morning tequila shots.)

Scanning through this classic Christmas catalog that claims:
Offering the Best, the Only and the Unexpected for 160 years

I found lots of potential gifts for my friends and family from a fish finding watch, a hands free video camera, a voice controlled ipod controller and a perfect martini maker to this bug vacuum.
If we still had little ones to buy for…

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Toilet Training for Men

By Linda | Published August 2, 2008

The easy-close toilet seat… quieter than a whisper. Never fall in the bowl again.

You’re welcome.

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shoe sale: 2 for 1

By Linda | Published February 26, 2008

There are times in a mother’s life when she gets all misty eyed. the first steps, the first tooth, the first kiss, the first date/prom/dance.
This weekend I had one of those moments:
The first mother-daughter matching shoe purchase.
God help me. She’s only nine.

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I was THINKING about blogging.

By Linda | Published December 29, 2007

As I was drinking water and flushing my system of appendicitis-symptom inducing beef.

As I was getting wrapped in ACE bandages soaked in an herbal remedy for all that ails you- still thinking and wishing I had a camera as I was stuffed in a rubber suit and told to sit in a sauna for half an hour.

As I was shopping FOR MYSELF days before Christmas.

As I went out to dinner at an Atlanta staple with the family and spent a car payment.

As I played Santa and gave friends our used TVs and speakers and…