My “long-time readers” may have noticed that I have some new additions to the blog. The most recent is the Xerox widget — they’ve set up a website where you can pick out a postcard, personalize it, and they’ll mail it to a soldier. Pretty cool. Only takes about 30 seconds. More effective, in my opinion, than a faded, magnetic, yellow ribbon sticker on the back of your car that purports to “Support Our Troops.” I mean, seriously. Can’t you at least go through the trouble of grabbing a fresh sticker at Walmart when your current one starts to peel?
And speaking of Sarah Palin and Oxyclean, it seems the budding author will be signing her “book” at my Costco. My Costco. My own distaste for this aside (I’ll probably never be able to eat in there again), I’m completely perplexed as to why she’d even choose Costco. I mean, why would she want to set foot inside the doors of a good company that pays its employees well and gives them benefits? Why not be true to her values and sign her books at Walmart? Apparently she’s counting on the agave-eating, Starbucks-drinking, English-cucumber-4-pack-buying Costco shoppers to out-buy the faded-yellow-magnet crowd. Or maybe she’s just gone rogue.
Tammy Soong is a writer, wife, and mom from Reno, Nevada. She takes an absurd amount of pain medication, but not enough to have actually named her children "Newt" and "Elfie." She spends most days stressing out over clutter, writing stuff for this place, and working on podcasts with her gal pals, the Blogging Betties.
I have also been incensed that Palin will be at MY Costco – thank god we will be out of town so I won't have to deal with any of it. The whole thing stinks too – to get a wrist band to get in to see her, you have to buy a copy of her book AT Costco. This all smells very corporate-greedy…..
Ok – one more thing….as much as I want to help you make money, if I click on the add for the “Free Tattoo LIbrary,” I can't guarantee I will purchase anything!
If you want to be even more hands on for the troops (and yes, you can be morally opposed to the war and still support the troops that are there), please check out anysoldier.com. Click on “where to send”, pick a unit, and put together a care package for them. I recommend using a flat rate box from the post office to save on postage.
Oh sure. One up me by sending them stuff they actually need and then being frugal about it.
It's not a contest, but I'm winning! ha ha ha. No, what made me think of you guys doing it, is that alot of soldiers ask for pictures from kids (since they have almost no contact with kids and they miss it). I could have Vivu do some pictures, but I don't think goth designs would be very cheerful.