{"id":477,"date":"2012-11-19T11:27:50","date_gmt":"2012-11-19T16:27:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ecooptimism.com\/?p=477"},"modified":"2013-07-07T15:38:11","modified_gmt":"2013-07-07T20:38:11","slug":"a-thanksgiving-cornucopia-of-wrongest-products","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ecooptimism.com\/?p=477","title":{"rendered":"A Thanksgiving Cornucopia of Wrongest Products"},"content":{"rendered":"

We could almost throw in the 1000 thread count towel and just admit we\u2019ve been insurmountably topped in the Wrongest Product Awards competition.\u00a0 First came the suggestion from a reader following our nomination of the lighted pillow<\/a> spied in a local outpost of a chain store. (local chain store = oxymoron?) He noticed the proud and iconic \u201cAs Seen on TV\u201d logo and mentioned he\u2019d once survived a visit to the As Seen on TV store. (We didn\u2019t even know there was such a thing. Is everything displayed on TV\u2019s?) For our awards, he said, it was a \u201ctarget-rich environment.\u201d<\/p>\n

Then along comes a post from one of our favorite blogs, Unconsumption<\/a>, linking to a thoroughly justified lampoon of the Williams-Sonoma catalog<\/a>. In it one can apparently find such necessities of life as a waffle batter dispenser (in what I can only assume is a related post, Unconsumption points out a suggestion by Real Simple for a free one<\/a>), an acorn shaped wooden container for twine (they squandered, though, the opportunity to call it a twine cozy),\u00a0and my own<\/p>\n

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$29.95 from Williams-Sonoma vs free as suggested by Real Simple via Unconsumption<\/p><\/div>\n

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favorite gift for an instant greenie: a \u201creclaimed rustic chicken coop\u201d that costs $759.95 with a painted chicken on the side or $599.95 without. The site\u2019s author notes \u201cand honestly, if you’re buying a goddamn chicken coop from a catalog, why NOT spring for the painted chicken?\u201d<\/p>\n

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As far as our simply conceding defeat here and now in the search for the Wrongest Product, we prefer to take it as a sign of just how many candidates there are out there.<\/p>\n

Previous Wrongest Product Award nominations<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

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Wrongest Product Award nominations are open! Send your nominees to ImNotBuyinIt (at) EcoOptimism.com.<\/em><\/p>\n

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