PROCEED TO CHECK OUT

Some of us fall for the simplest of things, this might be due to exhausting all of our resources to fix a broken item. I had left one of the catalogs laying on the couch yesterday and Tom picked it up. There is a little leak in our bathroom after we put in a surround in the tub and a new shower door. You know we live in an old house and although it’s been straightened it is still crooked so we don’t know where this little bitty leak is coming from . We seemingly have exhausted our resources to fix the leak until………….

……………… in this catalog he found something called a Teflon-based spray which instantly seals cracks in metal, lead, cement, brick, plastic, fiberglass, and more. One can use it indoors or outdoors. It repairs leaky pipes, gutters, roofs, ducts, walls, and more! Will this be the panacea for his dilemma? Just keep it away from my leaky bladder!

The shipping charges are as much as the sealer! Of course we all know about shipping and handling charges, or do we? Obviously, I do because I leafed through the catalog myself and found myself lured to items I have not seen in my shopping quests. After all, if the shipping is a flat rate, I could just as well look.

Look, see the black circle around the item called detox foot pads? These are supposed to help improve immune systems. It states they are all natural, premium foot patches containing vegetable, menthol, and other natural ingredients to promote natural detoxification and to enhance your body’s health. They work overnight to help increase circulation, improving immunity, reduce stress, and pain and relieve tired, and swollen feet. It’s an apparatus that wraps around your foot and the pad is anchored on the bottom of your foot. After one night, the pad looks like it’s nicotine stained. My question and is are five nights for $17 enough or shall I for $40, have the advantage of 15 nights of detox? When the pads arrive and have been tried, a report will follow.

Who could pass up a pair of Norwegian slippers, advertised as warm and comfy even on the coldest nights, especially because they’re on sale? They reminded me of when the Brownie Scouts were studying Lapland. At Christmas, the children of that country stuffed their shoes with straw. The slippers look like something the children would wear. No straw for sale in this catalog.


The kitchen timer which is used for everything including signaling us when the dryer is done has been dropped numerous times. It is at the point that if you don’t go past five minutes it will not tick off. That timer is probably 25 years old. As long as I’m ordering from the catalog, why not get two? After all, it’s easy to read, hear, and locate. We are getting older, we may need this size for failing vision or that loud ring for impaired hearing.

I did not order the next product. It is called a safe alternative to Botox. It says that once a day one puts this on age lines around the fore head, lips, and other. We are to apply a small amount to target areas to help decrease muscle contractions that caused those furrows and lines. It states in three to four weeks we will look younger. It comes with a before and after picture.

Another item that I did not order is called the toe flexor. One can get stronger, healthier, more beautiful feet. It helps improve flexibility, stretch tendons, increase circulation, and strength in feet and ankles. If you have fatigue and pain from bunions and hammer toes it will melt away. One uses this anywhere -- -- in the tub, while watching TV, or reading a book. Perhaps I didn’t want to buy this item because it doesn’t say you can use it well on the computer. Alas, they have lost me as a customer.


Another item I did not add to my list was an item called a toe straightener. This is a comfortable, professionally designed, easy to use toe straightener which aligns crooked, overlapping, and hammer toes. One can get a single told straightener for left or right for $6.oo or for $8.00 double toe straightener which fits the left or right foot. If you have three crooked toes per foot, the cost is $7.00. I’m not sure how that’s supposed to work most of the people I know with hammer toes and had to have them surgically repaired. If my friend from Wisconsin knew about this magic product, she could have saved herself a lot of time on crutches!



Let’s hope the spray concoction does work. Let’s hope the foot pads really do have the ability to pull toxins out through our soles in the middle of the night when no one is looking. Let’s hope the slippers are made as well as the picture looks, and the kitchen timers will tick off 3 minutes.