Friday, May 9, 2008

The Final Contestants

Today is our last free-purchasing day, and the final day for our $10 quest to find the most useless items in American capitalism. My final entries:

1. "Tired Leg Gel"
From the package: "Soothing & cooling, our natural morello cherry & iced mint Tired Leg Gel will give lasting relief for tired, itching & heavy legs & feet and put the spring back into your step."

That is really asking quite a bit of cherries and mint--especially if they aren't going to be served in a beach drink with a funky umbrella stir-stick. I'll let you know how it works.

2. The worst-looking dog chew toys EVER:

Now if you've ever had a dog larger than, say, a weasel, you know that all chew toys end up in chunks scattered around your home. Anyone want to run across bits of this
in a few months?


And my personal favorite....

3. Manly "Band-Aids."

For those he-man "ow-ees."



Andy is proudly displaying his one item:

A 24-ounce can of "Chelada," a blend of Bud Light and Clamato juice (clam juice & tomato?) with salt and lime added.

Doesn't that just make your skin crawl?

I have quite thoroughly razzed Andy about only finding one item (he had $7 left to spend), but I do admit that he found a doozy. So, I will let the readers pick the winner.....

5 comments:

De-De said...

Toni, I just laughed my way through your last few posts... The scary thing to me about your "most useless" project is that I've seen all that stuff - except for the band-aids. Those I need to get for my brother for next Christmas...

gak! said...

I hear that 2 hour runs in the foothills will put the 'spring back in your step'. Um, when combined with the popular cherry leg jell ... stuff.

Georgi said...

I think the Chelada is just gross and a horrible way to ruin a can of beer, even if is only Bud Light, ick. But I think the manly bandaids are just hilarious, I bet they hurt when they are pulled off. I think the most worthless item is the goldfish container, how silly is that, whats wrong with a zip loc bag?

Son of MCMLXXV said...

OMG that rox, never heard of that stuff. Definitely a plus in any fridge! Awesome!

Susie H said...

Oh, wow!! You both did so well seekign out the random and ridiculous :) I think for pure gross-out factor, the Chelada is a winner, though. Ewwwwww.

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