I am shamed daily and threatened with global annihilation or at least detention by every magazine, webzine, and the occasional neighbor. Why? Because I don't recycle everything including leftover soymilk and purified water.
Yes, I have tossed the occasional mooshy banana or unchewable melon half. But please!
The real shame is in my bathroom. A really good conditioner and sunscreen are available only in tubes. Have you ever tried cleaning out a tube for recycling? (We won't even go into the dabs of sunscreen on my clothes from a tube that gets surly most mornings.)
By some contrary coincidence, these tubes sprouted up just when the urging to recycle was upon us.
And dare I go into the matter of the really good body lotion, conditioner, or whatever that comes only in a skinny bottle with a pump? The tubes, surely not by evil design, wear out long before the bottle is empty. (Note the lotion bottle that's been on it's side on my nightstand. When I have time, I can shake the last of the lotion out of the now-pumpless bottom.
I could smear myself with honey instead of buying lotion (if it's good for a facial, why not? Or are they designing a tube for honey?)
This could go on for some time, unless some container designer has a horrible nightmare that his granddaughter is surrounded at sea by a million discarded tubes. Let's hope it doesn't come to that.
Or we could boycott. Or write more letters . . .
Thursday, September 15, 2011
Thursday, August 25, 2011
CRUEL SHOES: No help on web site
It's not easy being barefoot at work.
In desperation over a wounded foot and lack of shoes to wear to work (where I can’t hide my feet) I thought I’d try a web site that is supposedly for foot doctors. I found their name on an old inside heel lift cushion.
No luck. I found a lot of grade-school looking flats with big straps for some reason, and, as I mention in the e-mails, NO TOE ROOM.
I’ll let you know if I get any help from them.
Thursday, August 25, 2011 12:10 PM
To: sales@surefitlab.com
I have ruined a big toe nail from wearing shoes too round and with toe box too flat. I need a tiny adhesive device that used to be available in drug stores to protect that toe.
I see no shoes on your site with enough toe room.
Can you help?
MLF
To:
sales@surefitlab.com
Thursday, August 25, 2011
Also, I have to see the top and bottom views on line to see if there IS enough toe room before I buy anything.
MLF
In desperation over a wounded foot and lack of shoes to wear to work (where I can’t hide my feet) I thought I’d try a web site that is supposedly for foot doctors. I found their name on an old inside heel lift cushion.
No luck. I found a lot of grade-school looking flats with big straps for some reason, and, as I mention in the e-mails, NO TOE ROOM.
I’ll let you know if I get any help from them.
Thursday, August 25, 2011 12:10 PM
To: sales@surefitlab.com
I have ruined a big toe nail from wearing shoes too round and with toe box too flat. I need a tiny adhesive device that used to be available in drug stores to protect that toe.
I see no shoes on your site with enough toe room.
Can you help?
MLF
To:
sales@surefitlab.com
Thursday, August 25, 2011
Also, I have to see the top and bottom views on line to see if there IS enough toe room before I buy anything.
MLF
Friday, July 29, 2011
MACY'S ASKS ABOUT CRUEL SHOES
Macy's sent me an e-mail asking for comments on my casual shoes purchases yesterday. (Wisely, the Glendale store didn't ask for my comments on their shoe department!)
Luckily, clerk Alex in Burbank was a great help, but by the time I got back to her, I was frazzled. She brought out a brand new pair of the sandals style I had just tried on, and I was too tired to try the new pair on. Big mistake.
All in all, the quality of the sandals (Clarks) doesn't compare with my old Clarks (neither does the fit--less secure) and Macy's did not have the colors like pewter and bronze that go on to fall in SoCal.
I answered the survey, and later I will give a few well-chosen words to the manager.
(Wouldn't it be lovely to buy something that was even BETTER than your last purchase from that particular brand?) PS I did get a compliment on them, which makes me wish they fit well enough to wear all the time.
Happy feet to you.
Luckily, clerk Alex in Burbank was a great help, but by the time I got back to her, I was frazzled. She brought out a brand new pair of the sandals style I had just tried on, and I was too tired to try the new pair on. Big mistake.
All in all, the quality of the sandals (Clarks) doesn't compare with my old Clarks (neither does the fit--less secure) and Macy's did not have the colors like pewter and bronze that go on to fall in SoCal.
I answered the survey, and later I will give a few well-chosen words to the manager.
(Wouldn't it be lovely to buy something that was even BETTER than your last purchase from that particular brand?) PS I did get a compliment on them, which makes me wish they fit well enough to wear all the time.
Happy feet to you.
Monday, July 25, 2011
CRUEL SHOES
Woman who have never met before are approaching each other in parking lots, talking urgently, and exchanging phone numbers and e-mail addresses. No, this is not espionage. They are not swapping names of Botox docs in exotic countries. It is part of a frantic search for shoes! Shoes that actually fit and shoes that might be kind to feet already damaged by shoes that didn’t fit.
One of my best friends reported a month ago that she had walked into and out of some of her formerly favorite stores thinking: Where are my shoes? Those of us with atypical feet have been wearing the wrong shoes for years and now have a set of damaged little toes and damaged big toes.
I've worn the dumb shoes, partly due to budget concerns, partly because I couldn't find any that fit, and I have the damage to prove it. I can’t have pedicures now, partly because of fear of more damage, and partly because a pedicure won't glamourize what’s left.
Face it, many working women cannot afford over $200 for the shoes designed by a podiatrist. And, remember, one shouldn’t wear the same shoes every day, so we’re talking maybe $500 for TWO pairs right off the bat.
Barefoot at my particular job is pushing it. Well, actually, it's out of the question . . .so what do I do? What do YOU do?
One of my best friends reported a month ago that she had walked into and out of some of her formerly favorite stores thinking: Where are my shoes? Those of us with atypical feet have been wearing the wrong shoes for years and now have a set of damaged little toes and damaged big toes.
I've worn the dumb shoes, partly due to budget concerns, partly because I couldn't find any that fit, and I have the damage to prove it. I can’t have pedicures now, partly because of fear of more damage, and partly because a pedicure won't glamourize what’s left.
Face it, many working women cannot afford over $200 for the shoes designed by a podiatrist. And, remember, one shouldn’t wear the same shoes every day, so we’re talking maybe $500 for TWO pairs right off the bat.
Barefoot at my particular job is pushing it. Well, actually, it's out of the question . . .so what do I do? What do YOU do?
Wednesday, July 13, 2011
GLUTEN FREE SHOPPING LIST
1. Bathroom scale (how the devil did I gain weight without toast, pasta, or maple nut scones?)
2. Pretty, comfy shoes
3. Margarita mix
4. Acne soap (how the devil did I get zits at my age without pizza, toast, or maple nut scones?
5. Bananas and almond butter; yogurt and cocoa powder
6. A blender I can clean in thirty seconds without using a laser
7. Prettier underwear
8. A bigger fridge for all those fruits and vegetables and fruits and vegetables
9. Interesting make-up to try on while I’m nibbling weird rice crackers
10. A drive-up coffee shop so I don’t see all those scones
2. Pretty, comfy shoes
3. Margarita mix
4. Acne soap (how the devil did I get zits at my age without pizza, toast, or maple nut scones?
5. Bananas and almond butter; yogurt and cocoa powder
6. A blender I can clean in thirty seconds without using a laser
7. Prettier underwear
8. A bigger fridge for all those fruits and vegetables and fruits and vegetables
9. Interesting make-up to try on while I’m nibbling weird rice crackers
10. A drive-up coffee shop so I don’t see all those scones
Monday, July 11, 2011
FIVE URGENT DIET FACTS plus one
This is what I have learned so far, over and over and over:
1. Some substances being sold to pour on your cereal or in your coffee can disgust you so much that you rush to a coffee shop and put three sugars and two creams in your coffee.
2. Absolutely put down the spoon between bites even if you are reading the exciting part of the mystery novel.
3. Chewing each bite 26 times prepares food for your stomach and can make you late for work.
4. After a certain age, losing a lot of weight can make your skin hang like a monk’s bathrobe.
5. After you reach a weight your doctor likes, you still MUST view your rear when trying on pants.
6. It is not nice to punish your kids by making them drink the stuff mentioned in #1.
1. Some substances being sold to pour on your cereal or in your coffee can disgust you so much that you rush to a coffee shop and put three sugars and two creams in your coffee.
2. Absolutely put down the spoon between bites even if you are reading the exciting part of the mystery novel.
3. Chewing each bite 26 times prepares food for your stomach and can make you late for work.
4. After a certain age, losing a lot of weight can make your skin hang like a monk’s bathrobe.
5. After you reach a weight your doctor likes, you still MUST view your rear when trying on pants.
6. It is not nice to punish your kids by making them drink the stuff mentioned in #1.
Sunday, July 3, 2011
Psychic SHOPPING AT SEARS
Two small gift certificates and a big, big sale. Got a great top, still had money left on certificates. Got a skirt, to checkstand. Turned around, found another one of the skirt I really wanted. That one fit. Back to checkstand, skirt was on big sale, also. A great outfit and only $11 out of pocket. I've also had bargains there in the past on leather belts and leather watch band, and a leather bag!!
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