When I was growing up, any time a new labor saving device came on the market, my dad simply had to have it… The fact that the vast majority of these items saved no time what so ever and in many cases actually prolonged the task at hand, made little difference to my father… Things like the VIP Electric vibrating Pet Brush, that scared our dog to death, were constantly finding their way into … [Read more...]

When I was a kid I remember going shopping with my dad… No matter what store we happened to visit, there always seemed to be a large assemblage of employees who were all ready, willing and able to answer just about any question my father could through at them… It seemed as if every shop keeper knew all there was to know about every item in their inventory… My dad would say something like: … [Read more...]

As Shakespeare was so fond of saying; ” A rose by any other name will smell as sweet!”…Or something to that effect… Now I’m sure that the vast majority of you have never given much thought to what the glass you happened to be drinking from, at any given moment, was called… Well according to my dear old mother, you should …!!! You see, when I was growing up my mom was forever quizzing my … [Read more...]

When I was young I remember my dad buying all sorts of crazy things that he would purchase based solely on the advertisements he read in Life magazine or some other publication of the day… Products like Hangover Heaven or the Vibra-Gum Massager Finger may have seemed like good ideas while one was reading the … [Read more...]