The holiday installment of MDFH comes courtesy of Crate and Barrel. Crate and Barrel would like to help us solve a universal problem: what do you do with Christmas ornaments? Lord knows their original purpose is a source of total mystery. But never fear, friends! You need not fret about your poor unsuspended Christmas ornaments a moment longer, nor must you store them in serving bowls and lampshades and your bra as you were forced to in years past, for lack of a better solution. Crate and Barrel are on the case! They would like to offer you salvation, at the low low price of $49.95, in the form of the Ornament Centerpiece.
Thank goodness! Before, I had all these ornaments I'd collected, and couldn't figure out what to do with them...if only there were some kind of, I don't know, big green thing that needed to be decorated that was the original reason for buying all those ornaments in the first pla - oh, wait. Riiiight.
I love that, just to add a further layer of money-wasting pointlessness, you can kick in another 30 bucks to buy a whole new set of earnestly not-quite-matching ornaments to ornament the centerpiece with. That is fantastic.
(MDFH runner-up: guy on the train tonight - "You know, Dennis Hopper? The bad guy from Speed?" Oh, Dennis. I'm sorry.)
Posted by hilatron at December 4, 2005 08:09 PM | TrackBackExtra crazy: the item is described as a "tabletop version of the display seen in our stores"!! They have stopped trying to even design products and are just going to sell you the display racks- whee! Because the ultimate accomplishment is to have your home actually look like a store!
Posted by: captain gb at December 5, 2005 05:03 PMOOoooo!! Now I feel all warm and fuzzy inside! Thanks, Guys!!
Posted by: Auntie Jean at December 6, 2005 12:16 AMStrangely, the product no longer seems to be on their site. Hmm.
And speaking of Dennis Hopper, I interviewed the most fantastic person this morning who put the first 500 (chronologically) movies in "1001 Movies You Need to See Before You Die" in her Netflix cue, and just got through Easy Rider.
Posted by: EV at December 8, 2005 11:35 AM