So, I'm looking through a catalog that recently arrived in the mail.
[I need to address this: we still get too many unwanted catalogs]
This particular catalog has, in the past, been a source of inspiration--really cute and unique gifts for children.
Tender books--the kind that you want to keep in your collection forever.
Neat stuff--things you mostly can't find anywhere else.
We have a moratorium on spending this year, so I decide I'm just going to flip through to see what kinds of ideas might inspire me for making gifts....
and I'm flabbergasted at some of the stuff for sale.
Like a fiber egg carton with seeds for $11.95!!!!
Don't people have egg cartons? Like after their all done eating their eggs??
For free?
And a packet of seeds costs a buck or two depending on what you get.
Seriously?? $11.95?!?!?!
Along the same theme I also saw a small terra cotta pot, dirt from Ireland and a packet of shamrock seeds.
For $12.95.
Twelve dollars and ninety-five cents.
For dirt.
"Chidren's" cloth napkins for $19.95.....
$19.95!!!
Holy smokes. You can buy a lot of fabric for that price and make a whole mess of napkins for the family--and matching outfits to boot!!
Or the botanical paint kit.
That comes with powdered paints.
????????
Some mixing pots, six packs of paint powder, two brushes and some ideas
....for $14.95
Isn't the whole point of botanical paint that you make them with plants from your yard for free?
Hence the name botanical.
But my all time favorite was this:
A "firefly"-lit jar.
It's a mason jar with a handy little carrying handle, opaque glass and LED lights inside.
For $34.95!!!!!!
Now we just happened to be looking at LED lighting online for a project of my son's.
We discovered that you can buy about 250 small LED lights for $25.
I have a bazillion mason jars around this place.
Now, all I need to do is throw about 6 lights in each jar and I'm RICH!!!
Mwaaahaaahaaahaaahaaa!!!!!
Etsy here I come.....
I still appreciate some of the unique products in the catalog, but it never ceases to amaze me how we as a culture have to commercialize EVERYTHING.
What ever happened to digging an old pickle jar out of the garage and using a nail to poke some holes in the lid?
Running around in your bare feet in the dew-wet grass to catch fireflies?
Where is the awe and wonder in a jar full of LED lights?
As humans, we have an uncanny ability to suck the awe and wonder
[I need to address this: we still get too many unwanted catalogs]
This particular catalog has, in the past, been a source of inspiration--really cute and unique gifts for children.
Tender books--the kind that you want to keep in your collection forever.
Neat stuff--things you mostly can't find anywhere else.
We have a moratorium on spending this year, so I decide I'm just going to flip through to see what kinds of ideas might inspire me for making gifts....
and I'm flabbergasted at some of the stuff for sale.
Like a fiber egg carton with seeds for $11.95!!!!
Don't people have egg cartons? Like after their all done eating their eggs??
For free?
And a packet of seeds costs a buck or two depending on what you get.
Seriously?? $11.95?!?!?!
Along the same theme I also saw a small terra cotta pot, dirt from Ireland and a packet of shamrock seeds.
For $12.95.
Twelve dollars and ninety-five cents.
For dirt.
"Chidren's" cloth napkins for $19.95.....
$19.95!!!
Holy smokes. You can buy a lot of fabric for that price and make a whole mess of napkins for the family--and matching outfits to boot!!
Or the botanical paint kit.
That comes with powdered paints.
????????
Some mixing pots, six packs of paint powder, two brushes and some ideas
....for $14.95
Isn't the whole point of botanical paint that you make them with plants from your yard for free?
Hence the name botanical.
But my all time favorite was this:
A "firefly"-lit jar.
It's a mason jar with a handy little carrying handle, opaque glass and LED lights inside.
For $34.95!!!!!!
Now we just happened to be looking at LED lighting online for a project of my son's.
We discovered that you can buy about 250 small LED lights for $25.
I have a bazillion mason jars around this place.
Now, all I need to do is throw about 6 lights in each jar and I'm RICH!!!
Mwaaahaaahaaahaaahaaa!!!!!
Etsy here I come.....
I still appreciate some of the unique products in the catalog, but it never ceases to amaze me how we as a culture have to commercialize EVERYTHING.
What ever happened to digging an old pickle jar out of the garage and using a nail to poke some holes in the lid?
Running around in your bare feet in the dew-wet grass to catch fireflies?
Where is the awe and wonder in a jar full of LED lights?
As humans, we have an uncanny ability to suck the awe and wonder
out of life.
At least now I know what to get my friends for Christmas this year.
Egg cartons and Dirt.
Gotta run, I need to place my order for the "twisty story-starter" thingie.
It's only $12.95.
At least now I know what to get my friends for Christmas this year.
Egg cartons and Dirt.
Gotta run, I need to place my order for the "twisty story-starter" thingie.
It's only $12.95.
2 comments:
Here's an idea: how about we take a family trip to Ireland, bring home suitcases of dirt, throw it in our old egg cartons along with a variety of seeds and sell them as Official Irish Grow Your Own Plants for Botanical Paints kits. Only $39.95!
Now that Jim is just smart! I think I have this magazine too. I always think what it would be like to be able to waste money like that. Same question though - why??
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