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The following [below the fold] is from my friend Anthony, who can’t help but buy stuff he sees on TV.

I remember once he purchased those long synthetic dusters… he said they worked great, but part of the process to get them to pick up dust was rubbing the things along your body to work up static electricity. Can you imagine what happens when the initial static wears off?

I could just see him rubbing those long, hideously filthy filament rods over his arms and shuddering… because he’s more like Adrian Monk than any other man I know.

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Remember how eBay used to be? Just some folks like you and I, it was a bit like a virtual garage sale. I don’t eBay anymore because everyone bought the ‘eBay business model’ and the prices in many cases are worse than retail.

Well, etsy is the ‘friends hanging out and having a cup of tea with you’ eBay. There, I’ve said it. And if you ask me how many hours this week I’ve spent perusing various artisan’s wares, I’ll just lie to your face. Er, screen. Whatever.

The draw is that everything is handmade by talented people, usually using local materials. It didn’t come off an assembly line in China only to end up on a shelf at Wal-Mart. Which makes me crazy. No Swiss Army knives, molded plastic kitty bowls or anything pre-stamped ‘made in’.

I’d love to link to some of my favorite items, but I’m buying Christmas gifts already!! I just bought my BFF her birthday present AND one of her Christmas presents… totally different sellers, different merchandise altogether!

Is there an esty 12 step program? Come January I’ll need one!

I probably find myself in Home Depot more often than what is healthy, considering my bank account.

A partial list of what I’ve shopped for lately: a Char-Broil barbecue [hubby's fault], lumber for fascia board, Kohler faucets, potting soil, dremels, paint and ceiling fans. I wish I could afford a garden shed! Already have the perfect place picked out in the back yard; all I’d have to do is cut down two trees. But don’t worry… they’re really ugly washingtonia palms. Rats live in the dead leaves; I’d love to have ‘em gone!

Faucets… my house was built in 1976 and they are original. But when I look at the faucets I want they inevitably lead to counter tops, new toilet, scraping the tile off the walls, revamping the shower… it’s a slippery slope. But why put pearls on a pig?

It’s a sickness. I need an HD support group to keep me from the door.

But then I’d only go to Lowe’s.

The Sharper Image was sold Thursday in a bankruptcy auction, and the new owners are closing the remaining 86 retail stores across the country.

This is sad… now where will I buy my Ionic Breezes?