The Least

Is all shopping these days considered "Xmas Shopping"? I mean, I'm just going to buy groceries. And get fun pictures to share while I'm out, too. Hope this brings you some seasonal cheer.

These are funny but also make me uncomfortable a bit. Like, would you be happy to get this as a present? I remember when somebody... hated me the least. Awww... you suck, too!

These are awesome just because I like the term "one pound of gummy."

I'm not sure if this picture properly illustrates how big this thing is. It's a whole end-table sized slab of Rice Krispies Treat. Also, it says "Treats" on the package, but it's only one big single treat.

Help! I'm trapped in prison with Sugar Cookie Kisses! I guess that doesn't really sound too bad. Nevermind.

I want this just for the adorable tiny meat cleaver. Watch your fingers!

WALKERS! Sorry that term is now associated with zombies, in my own head. Thanks, TV show The Walking Dead.

Hmm... saw these in the store. I know they are soon to change these to "Ben's Original" to remove the quasi-racist imagery concept of "Uncle Ben" from history. There was a lot of them with this old packaging. Is this going to be a collectable? Who would want to collect this?

This music store is going out of business, and due to Covid, only ONE guest at a time is allowed into the store to get some clearance sales. That's a unique thing. Do they really expect to sell a lot? Is the store the size of a closet?

What is going on with this vehicle? It looks like a real-world version of some kind of mashed-up Lego set. It's like... a truck... but with a cool middle part.... and... um... I put a thing on the back... and whatever; I used a lot of grey pieces.

Do you want a Snickers bar, or a Satisfies bar? Is this an attempt at not-so-subliminal advertising? Weird.

There was a cat skeleton on the hood of this jeep. I don't think I want to ask this Witch about it. Nope.

Ahh! Finally! The Nintendo Switch Joy-Con controllers are notorious for being flimsy, and eventually the analog sticks start to "drift". Now you can replace just the one that's broken for half the price. They used to sell them only in a set for $80. Seeing them separate like this is a soft admittance by Nintendo that yes, they know they messed up the engineering on those things. But at least now you have a better option.

Aww! Adorable little Harry Potter blind-box figures. As cute as these are, $10 for a random character seems a little too much for me. Good luck though, if you want to get some yourself.

We used to visit this store in Scarsdale called Amazing Savings which was a Ollie's or Big Lots kind of discount store with a unique blend of merchandise. We found there was one close to us in New Jersey and decided to check it out on a Saturday. Except we forgot... It's closed on Saturdays. At least, closed at lunchtime when we went that day. D'oh!

Mama mia! Thatsa the coolest star to put ona toppa your tree! Whoo-hoo!

Does this make your tree invincible?

Got a big laugh out of the placement of the sale price sticker on this Yooge Trump bar of chocolate. You know they did that on purpose. And that's why it's funny.

We took a picture of this non-transforming Transformer Barricade car so we could zoom-in on the text in the back of it. If you didn't know, Barricade is a police car, but he's a subverted-expectations evil Decepticon. That text says "Keep calm and Hail Megatron"

More Fake Xmas Present boxes. Nobody is going to want earwax candles but there's probably going to be some genuinely sad people that they are not really getting a pet translating collar. It sounds close enough to believing it would exist, right? Says the little plastic pony. (I know that's not the same thing.)

Woke up on Thanksgiving to see a little bit of the non-parade um... parade. It's nice to have a day off of work, and you wake up to see a dancing squad of pikachus.

What an odd thing to still have this parade. They admitted that a lot of it was pre-recorded on purpose to avoid people gathering to watch anyway despite the restrictions. It still made me happy to see it, so good job to them for figuring it out.

The Squirrel Squad got Thanksgiving treats, too! So we had a small amount (is that a pun?) of "family" here to share the day with. 

Travel restrictions kept us mostly alone on Thanksgiving. We still made sure to have a good amount of traditional diner for ourselves. There was an attempt at a multiple-phone video chat among the various relatives far away, but it was sort of a mess.

We actually bought way more food than we needed. So we were very very full after the second plate's worth of it. There was enough to do this all over again on the next night! Sometimes the hardest part of cooking is getting the portions right. It's better to have too much than too little, so we got that part right.

It was Thanksgiving, so it's okay to go overboard and have some ice cream, too! Does serving it in a fancy glass make it better? Sure it does!

Get your letters to Santa! Do you think Santa reads every one of these himself, or does he have a team of elves browsing through them, too? How many other celebrities get to read ALL of thier fan mail? Of course, celebrities don't have Xmas magic like Santa does. So it makes sense that Santa could read them all. Look at me having a philosophical debate on Santa Mail.