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.
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?
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.
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.
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!)
… 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.
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.
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.
I, personally, will not be buying 10 pounds of Sour Patch Kids, because I’m on a diet and I have a kid in braces and even though they’re my family’s favorite candy ever, ten pounds is a lot of Sour Patch Kids, y’all.
But maybe you have ten kids or you’re having a “let’s ruin our teeth” party, in which case 10 pounds of Sour Patch Kids for just $25 shipped is a good deal and a great idea. Just sayin’.
Listen, you know I’m all about the deal; the cheaper the better, natch.
Which is why I have to tell you that I had a terrible moment of cognitive dissonance a minute ago. I saw these skybar wine chill drops and of course thought, “$50 for little thingies to chill your wine??!”
… but on the heels of that I thought, “Whoa. Those are really cool.”
And that’s when I had to put my head down on my desk and take a deep breath and remind myself just because they can make stuff like that, doesn’t mean I have to like it. Much.
Okay, off to try to smack the bourgeois off myself….
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