
These were featured on Etsy’s home page:

Bridal mittens? They look like these wrist guards I used to wear when my carpal tunnel syndrome was acting up. Of course, mine were “flesh” (if you’re a kind of dark tan white person) colored and involved more velcro, but still remarkably similar.
{Source} $65. But they are made in France, so totally worth it.

Stop Gossip Powder. Why did no one ever tell me about this before? POOF!

{Source} Only $3.00 How can you resist?
Posted by suebob
on April 1, 2012
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In case you don’t actually want to work at Subway, but you want to smell like you do:

Dill pickle soap. The mustard-scented soap is in Aisle 3.
{Source} $5.50, or you can just rub a pickle over your body instead.
Posted by suebob
on March 24, 2012
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Back when I was a kid and people of ethnicities other than beige were exotic and hilarious, one way you knew that the lady on the teevee was Latina was that she had a fruit basket on her head. Add an off-the-shoulder dress and an accent and *poof* insta-Latina. Carmen Miranda was the classic, but I was also a big fan of Yma Sumac, the “Amazon Princess.”
Thank goodness those days are gone, mostly. But if you get a craving to put something south-of-the-border on your head, I suggest this little taco headband:

{Source} $15, or the price of 7 fabulous tacos de rajas at my favorite restaurant, Cuernavaca.
Posted by suebob
on February 29, 2012
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Hey, Minnesota – being vaguely threatening is Texas’s job. You’re too nice for that. Besides, you shouldn’t be a copycat.

{Source} $24 but you can probably find them 3 for $15 at the swap meet
Posted by suebob
on February 10, 2012
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