Showing posts with label spend wisely. Show all posts
Showing posts with label spend wisely. Show all posts

Thursday, August 20, 2009

Plastic Laser Gun



This was purchased at last year's state fair and lives up to every low standard you'd equate with such a place. It does nothing really, except make loud noises (BYOOObyooobyoooBYOOO), flash red and green lights and irritate everyone who comes into contact with it. It's currently sitting beneath a low end table on top of a Death Star replica and between 2 Storm Trooper masks. What my life has become is a story for another day.

$6 Plastic toy laser gun = one pair of cute plaid earmuffs


Friday, August 14, 2009

Vintage Strawberry Shortcake lunchbox.


Even now, this, in theory is super rad.  A lunchbox that I very well may have owned at one point in my life, complete with random stickers and a Thermos?  I'll take three!  Unfortunately, at $30 a pop, all I could afford at the time was one and without a daycare to attend, it doesn't get much aside from collecting dust particles.  I love Strawberry Shortcake, but this item has put me one stuffed animal away from being the lady with the crocheted tissue box covers...

$30 Vintage Strawberry Shortcake lunchbox = 4 actual lunches at Panera Bread

Monday, August 10, 2009

Fake fur camouflage hat.



There was a time that I believed I would wear this hat.  That time was last year in NYC...a time I also vaguely recall being at least three glasses of water beyond dehydration.  I blame the hallucinations, leading me to practically freebase cheesecake squares on the street and believe I might be the governor of Alaska someday.  Thank god I won it in a bet about the exact location of Guitar Center.  But what kind of a price can you really put on dignity?

$20 hunting hat = 3 pairs of practical Victoria's secret thongs


Hammond the hand puppet




I know.  Adorable right?  Those googly cross eyes.  That tiny green horn, mohawk thing.  The furry orange eye brows.  Love him.  But this doesn't change the fact that this is a hand puppet, folks, and I have neither children nor a job requiring ventriloquism as a skill.  "Hammond" has been reduced to decorating a mic stand for the time being.

$12 Hand puppet =  A work week's worth of black coffee at Starbucks