Consumer Thoughts

This Mini File Cabinet is so cute! It holds 750 business cards and also has a little clock on the front.

Too cute - Dash, Smidgen, and Pinch measuring spoons! No more guesswork, hehe! $4.75 at Spoon Sisters

If you enjoy funny customer service stories, you’ll love Dear Valued Customer. It has tons of stories, from banks crediting random accounts with millions of dollars, to embarrassing e-mails sent around the world. Click to check it out.
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Everyone’s familiar with the folder concept used by PCs… this cute little flash drive that looks like a folder just keeps the theme going. Unfortunately it’s not yet available.
via Apartment Therapy’s Home Tech

My dad’s been in the hospital with a blocked artery - nothing contagious. Today around 10am, he was moved out of ICU to a regular room, at which point he asked for some water. The nurse’s aide brought him a small pitcher full of ice water, large enough to hold 3-4 glasses’ worth [...]

A mother in Illinois turned on her video baby monitor, and discovered that she was actually monitoring astronauts in the space station. The system shouldn’t pick up anything beyond 150 feet, let alone 150 miles! (The ISS is between 199-215 miles above Earth, according to Wikipedia. Some commenters at Consumerist speculate that the [...]

Too cute!

This is the Knork, which I’ve seen floating around in a few catalogs, like Harriet Carter. We’re all familiar with the Spork… well, the Knork is a fork where the outside edges of the 2 end tines are sharpened to make a knife. This is so you can cut your food with only [...]

Too funny! This eye chart iPod Shuffle case is $15 at the most colorful store I’ve ever seen, Pylones USA.

I had one of these when I was little, and it looks like they’re making a comeback! You put the ice in the top and crank it (for a long time) and you can use the little shovel to shape the “snow.” You can put the syrup in the snowman. Too cute!
$20 at [...]