Sunday, May 25, 2008


Went to Big Lots today. Now, they normally sell retail over-runs and such, but today, I was walking through and I saw kiddie pools marked way down with a sign "packaging error". The boxes on the kiddie pools had ended up with a picture of happy children enjoying the wrong product! They depicted kids on those bouncy balls that have hobby horse and hippo heads with bicycle handles to hold onto, not splashing about in a big plastic pool. I'm tempted that such an item might be worth a fortune one day. Double-headed dimes or the upside-down-plane stamp come to mind.

Then it gets worse. Glass-blown swans under a sign "Factory Recall". A sign explains that the factory issued a recall, but on the wrong lot number first, so some perfectly safe glass-blown swans had to be shipped back out. But the each box for the glass swans, sitting between two lily pads, one of which has a butterfly on it, has a big rubber stamp "DESTROY".

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