If you’re a Facebook user, you’re probably seeing tons of ads for flowers right now, in anticipation of Mother’s Day. In particular, ProFlowers is running a series of ads touting “$19.99 Flowers for Mother’s Day!” as some kind of “special for Facebook users.” Sounds like a great deal, right?
Don’t fall for it.
At a minimum, that $19.99 order of flowers will cost you $34 and change. They add a standard $9.99 delivery charge (much more if you want the Friday or Saturday before Mother’s Day), plus tax and a charge for “care and handling.” You know, I figure if I order flowers from you, I can figure that caring for them and handling them is included. I mean, don’t you pretty much HAVE to “handle” something in order to deliver it?
Look, I’m not opposed to sending flowers. Ask any of my friends or family. I have an incredibly generous flower budget for funerals, birthdays, and graduations. But when I do send flowers, I send FLOWERS, usually worth $100 or more. At that price, what’s another $9.99 for delivery, right? But I find it offensive that companies advertise “$19.99″ flowers that end up costing $35. And really, who knows what you’re going to get for 20 bucks anyway? I suspect you’re better off going to Costco and getting one of their very large, very reasonably priced bouquets.
That’s what I’ll be doing next weekend.
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I need to write a post later today about losing my temper in the attempt to stop a pre-schooler from losing HER temper. Needless to say: futile. In the meantime, enjoy this RUN-DMC vs. Jason Nevins. I am.
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Today I picked up my purse and thought, “Damn. That’s heavy. Why is my purse so heavy?” I try not to hoard, but every now and then I get in the habit of throwing stuff in my purse and kind of forgetting about it. So today I emptied it completely and took inventory. No wonder it was so heavy!
1. Makeup bag full of even MORE stuff – let’s not go there
2. Notebook
3. Go Smile touch-ups
4. Car key
5. Badge(s) for work
6. Pouch full of coupons and gift cards
7. Baby wipes (don’t leave home without ‘em!)
8. Tissues
9. Pen
10. USB key in fugly neoprene case
11. Ginormous sunglasses
12. Hand sanitizer
13. Wiki Stix (from restaurant where we had dinner last night)
14. Tea bag (what am I, 70?)
15. iPod and headphones in snazzy (re-purposed headphone) case
16. Tic Tacs
17. House key (which I never use)
18. Various lip glosses
19. iPhone
20. Giant wallet full of even more crap (not money)
21. Various receipts (that I should throw away)
22. Daycare summer schedule
23. Sephora coupon (expired) and skincare brochure from my aesthetician
24. Package I need to mail
25. Loot bag from Bring Your Child to Work Day
Apart from the loot bag, which I just got today, I’ve been carrying around most of this stuff for well over a week now. And usually I’m so streamlined and organized! I feel a little ashamed of myself. I guess I need to institute a regular purse-pruning day.
How do you deal with purse clutter? Or, for that matter: briefcase clutter, laptop bag clutter, bookbag clutter, diaper bag clutter, etc.?
This is a little bit of what I call “rap music for white people who think they won’t like rap music.” I defy you to listen to this track and not find yourself bopping along with it.
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