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This just seems like a bad idea

On the one hand: Oh, look! Buy.com has the Nerf N-Strike Elite Bundle for Wii available for just $19 shipped, which is a full $10 less than the current price at Amazon. Yay for sales!

On the other hand: It’s a game that comes with a Nerf gun that both, y’know, works as a Nerf gun and can have the Wii remote inserted and used in conjunction with the video game. And it shoots Nerf dart things. Yay for having your awesome flat-screen TV smudged or maybe even broken with darts!

So, uh, yeah. Good luck with this one.

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This is what Prime does to me

Now that I’ve signed up for my holiday-time Prime trial, it’s possible I’m spending a little more on Amazon than is healthy warranted. Ahem. But, you know, I shop more so that you don’t have to. Or something.

Anyway, this morning I got an email about kitchen products, so I was poking around, and I do think I’ve found both the heights and the depths of what Amazon Kitchen has to offer.

First, the bad news: Have you ever been whipping up some scrambled eggs and thought to yourself, “Self, what these eggs need is more rodent!”? Of course you have! You’ll want to pick up this two-whisk set where both whisks appear to have squirrels embedded in their cores. Because that’s not disturbing in the slightest.

The good news, however: How utterly adorable and awesome are these Measuring Matroyshkas? I love them! They’re only marked down a little—currently they cost just over $10/set—but they are available as part of the 4-for-3 promotion, just in case you’re doing other shopping or want to stuff stockings with them because they’re so cool.

Yes, ’tis the season for me to become utterly obsessed with Amazon. But when there’s great finds like this (well, the measuring cups, anyway—the whisks are still skeeving me out a little), can you blame me?

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This may be what’s wrong with America

I can’t stop shaking my head. But maybe you either 1) often flail around in the dark like Mr. Magoo or 2) need a white elephant gift.

Today’s Daily Steals Steal of the Day is… slippers with built-in LED flashlights. So you can see in the dark. Possibly so that you can see how utterly sexy you look in your lighted slippers. In the dark.

The slippers are “free,” just pay $4.99 shipping. And let the hilarity ensue, one imagines.

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Hey, kids!

At first I thought I had no words for this little gem at Amazon, but it turns out that I do.

Summary, in case you don’t feel like looking: It’s a yay-it’s-summer lawn toy that resulted from the unholy union of a water sprinkler and a punching bag thingie. Plus you get a set of boxing gloves, too.

Pros: At 69% off and coming in at under $5, it’s hard to argue with a kids’ sprinkler at this price point.
Cons: I cannot possibly be the only person who can think of a dozen different ways that this toy ends very, very badly. C’mon, now. Boxing gloves to go with your sprinkler? Really??

But it claims to be a “soakin’ good time,” so what do I know?

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Winner: best deal that made me guffaw

Look, I’m not saying this isn’t a good deal, because it is. It’s arguably a great deal, but… well, see for yourself.

Right now Buy.com has a king-size 10″ luxury memory foam mattress available for $400 shipped. I don’t know this particular brand, but I’m guessing for that price you can hardly go wrong. So, points for a nice deal.

However, I really never got past my initial snickering, which occurred as soon as I saw the “Limit (5) per customer” caveat on the product page. I… uh… well. Too bad, because I totally need six.

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New and improved (?)

Um, is it just me, or is anyone else baffled by the much-anticipated release of… the black Wii console?

Is that supposed to make it… cooler? More aerodynamic? More serious? Oh, wait—I know! It’s slimming.

I’m suddenly having flashbacks to Malibu Stacy’s new hat.

Sorry, I just had to get that off my chest. Carry on.

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Okay, they might be fooling

Heeee. See if you can spot the April Fool’s Day products today at ThinkGeek. I can tell you that at least one of them I desperately wish was real.

(Thanks, Chuck!)

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Raise your hand. . .

… if you either had, or desperately wanted to have, a flowered swim cap when you were a little girl.

(Guys, you’re exempt from this one. Obviously.)

Turns out, everything old is new again, and you can still wear plastic flowers on your head while you swim laps. Oh, wait—excuse me, now the flowers are latex. Which isn’t quite as horrific, but it’s still very close.

The things I find, sometimes… it’s scary out there, people.

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Proof that Amazon is Irish

Pardon me while I giggle—in honor of St. Patrick’s Day, today’s Amazon MP3 Daily Deal is Flogging Molly’s Drunken Lullabies for just $3 to download.

It’s, uh, actually a really good album if you’re a fan of Flogging Molly. But just reading it off like that? Yeah. Giggle city.

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Shoes of unnecessary quotation marks

Okay, I get that Reef is a hot brand of flip-flops for the cool kids, and that I will probably never understand a beach sandal that’s regularly priced at over $50. All of that aside, I was just cruising the Reefs at 6pm.com (because they’re only around $20, there) and came across this Reef Fanning that has a bottle opener built into the sole.

A bottle opener. In your shoe.

My favorite part is that in the bulleted feature list, it says: Church key to open your “soda” bottle. Uh huh. It’s to open your “sodas,” fellas.

The mind, it boggles.

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