Musings on a Small Life

Leftovers from Thanksgiving dinner, chicken not turkey. I'm not that fond of turkey. Leftover vacation pics, snapped yesterday, from a walk in the cemetery and elsewhere:  Some trees are showing colour now.  It's still mostly green, though.          The dead tree at the World War burial site. Fitting.    The pond still was spouting water.  Little Melinda's grave with mums.  At Rotary Park, adjacent to our "big" shopping centre.  One of the public libraries is in the background (left of centre).  On the way home.   Leftover news, of sorts: Last week a PR intern who works for a firm in Toronto got in touch about my generic versus brand post. Someone from Swiffer had seen my post and they wanted to send me a box with several of their products. I got it today. Seriously. The only reason I responded to the person's email in the first place was that he checked out as...

Thanks for all the comments and input on the previous post! You all had me thinking about the products I use and apparently I do use certain brand name products more than I realized. OxyClean (awesome stuff), Swiffer dry cloths, Purex laundry detergent, Costco's tp, Bounty paper towel...I'll buy name brand dish soap too, because the generic stuff I've tried is crap. Now I have to take back my words that I'm not influenced by brand hype! Or at least I have to say I'm skeptical, will try the product before I believe the hype.  :-) *** Anyway, it's been a week, almost done with. I swear they've turned off the a/c at work in our suite...it's stuffy and sticky and we've all been feeling miserable. Either that or there's something in water affecting us all.  *** My step-dad had ended up in the ER Sunday night -- long story but he went back to the care facility Tuesday night, as he's "fine", other than he has some kidney p...

Anyone who reads this blog can guess I'm not into name brands or designer labels. I don't buy into the marketing hype we're inundated with at every turn, and I'm a big purchaser of generic products rather than the pricier, well-known brands. However, I've recently discovered that the advertising "hype" around the Swiffer dry mop cloths actually isn't hype at all.  I've had a Swiffer dry mop for a few years now, but always have purchased generic cloths, because c'mon, they're disposable cloths (and I always use both sides to get the most out of them). But a month or so ago I picked up a small package of Swiffer cloths to try (good sale). I never thought they'd actually out-perform any of the generic brands I've tried! So now I'm a Swiffer convert and will pay a bit extra for those dry mop cloths, because the difference in how much grunge they pick up is amazing. Rather scary too. I thought my floors were reasonably c...