Rachel went to the new American Girl Doll store near Denver a few weeks back. After she came home, I asked, “What did you think?” Her first reply: “It was too expensive.”
I was a proud dad.
I did not join her for that excursion. When I happened to be near the store a week later, I had to drop in to see it for myself. That’s when my reflections started. I do agree with her that nearly everything in the store is not priced for ordinary folks. The lower pic is a hair salon – for your doll – at something like $20 a pop. Mind you, it’s hard for me to think of spending $20 to style the hair of a doll when I know that that same $20 could feed a hungry family in Kenya for several days.
But the other side of the coin was thinking that I have colored my kids so much to be always thinking about what things cost that they are warped that way. For good and bad, our kids reflect us.
I had to share these two products from the Sunday newspaper’s coupons section…
Why is it that all female Bollywood singers sound the same?
As some of my longer-term readers may recall, I lived 5 years in 
The results of my little poll recently about how often you think I should blog… 17 said I should continue at 5/week, one said 2/week is enough and one said I should do more than 5 a week (as of this writing). Many made kind comments. (Thanks to all who took the poll or commented!)
If American traffic engineers would mirror-reverse these two signs, thousands of gallons and hours could be saved, probably every day.
Carrying the theme from yesterday (and leaving cars behind), the Willy Wonka Candy Company (part of the Nestlé empire) had the creativity to make this product’s bar code fun.
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