Infomercials

August 19, 2010

As my kids watch tv, they don’t beg for toys or ask me to buy the latest new food craze or sugary cereal. Nope, they are into infomercials. Then I start hearing statements and questions like the ones below. I didn’t make these up, I started writing down what they were saying when they started to spout off what they heard from the infomercial.

Mom, what’s better than a pillow that is also your pet?

Have you ever tried to cut the cat’s nails? It was pretty hard, wasn’t it?

It even comes with a carrying bag!

Do you have a hard time finding your phone in your purse?

Mom, I need a snuggie (as she is wrapped up in a quilt my mom made). See, if I wanted my drink, I would have to get my arms out of the blanket to reach it.

It comes in black and white and in color! (this was a set of Shirley Temple movies…they don’t have a clue who Shirley Temple is)

We need those pretty things for your plants so you never have to water them.

Those infomercials really suck the kids in. I guess they are doing their job. Good thing I have more willpower than them and can resist buying stuff from the tv. No matter how cool it looks or how much it will save me time or keep me organized.

That’s why I head down to the store and wander through the As Seen on TV store and gander at the stuff myself. I even tried out the silly shake your way to slimmer arm thing at the store.

The woman in this house that purchased some of that Nads green goopy no wax hair removal stuff even though she shaves her legs every day and doesn’t need to wax while and was doped up on pain medication and didn’t remember ordering it until she a week before it appeared at the door shall remain nameless. At least I she didn’t agree to purchase more for family and friends when they asked me her on the phone.

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