Friday, September 25, 2009

Scent Scented with Scent?

I was fast-forwarding through the commercials of my Tivoed Gray's Anatomy when I saw an ad zip by for Febreze scented like Gain detergent and like Downy dryer sheets. I immediately stopped my frenzy through the commercials to find out about the events at Seattle Grace Hospital to go back and find this commercial to make sure my eyes weren't deceiving me. I mean SURELY I was mistaken, right? Could this be possible? I have been through the detergent aisle a dozen times, browsing through all the Febreze scented products, wondering how they chose which Febreze scent to use (since there are so many!) and being totally uncertain if it really made a difference because I'm kind of scent freak. I find one and latch onto it in what some might say is an unhealthy way. You might use the word "obsessed"; I would just say I'm passionate.
So now we have Tide scented with Febreze and Bounce with Febreze scent (which I'm still not sure what it is and how it's more beneficial than their regular scents) and now we have Febreze that smells like Downy and Gain... So does that mean that we should just switch to Downy and Gain instead of Tide and Bounce? I mean are they going to have Tide with Febreze's Gain scent? No, I'm guessing they're not. It's a total traitor move by Febreze. They're saying, "Tide isn't good enough smelling on it's own so they need us to make it better, but even though we're better than Tide, we're not good enough smelling on our own either. So we need the greatest scent of all - Gain. So if you're picking a laundry detergent by it's scent, then you really can't use Tide... you should use Gain because, even with our scent, Tide is still not good enough." If I were Tide I'd be pissed... unless they're all owned by the same company and it's just meant to be one big ole Mind "F" and we're not supposed to know what the hell to do anymore because all the detergents and dryer sheets are looped together in some sort of tickery. It's like laundry detergent incest. I no longer trust any of them.

*sigh*

I will continue to use my Tide original, I guess, but PLEASE Arm & Hammer, don't do anything to your 2 in 1 Lavendar Vanilla moist dryer sheets. Remember, I'm passionate... obsessed... passionately obsessed. It will crush me. So Back OFF Febreze.

What's the Point?

My husband made an accusation the other day, and while I'm not saying that his accusation was very far from the truth, I felt like his example was stupid and caused me to be argumentative.

We were in the kitchen when he pointed out that I have a tendency to not use the last bit of a product. For example, the milk. I can stretch a tablespoon of milk to last through two pots of coffee, but apparently when I put back the milk jug with only teentsy bits of milk in it - this drives him batty. The milk, however, is my example. HIS example was the cheese. He said, "...like you put back the Swiss with only one slice left."
Now while I totally see his point and am very positive that he is right (if he weren't right I wouldn't have 45 bottles of lotion, shampoo and conditioner with an ounce at the bottom of the bottle as I preserve them for no apparent reason) I couldn't help, but be totally agitated by this example. So... if I am making a sandwich and I normally only use one piece of Swiss on my sandwich, I am supposed to use TWO pieces of cheese because having ONE piece of cheese left in the fridge is somehow irritating? Somehow one piece of cheese in the fridge is LESS appealing than not having any cheese left in the fridge? How does that make sense? I have never gone to the fridge looking for cheese to put on a sandwich and gone, "Aw crap! There's only one giant slice of cheese? What am I going to do now?" So I got mad at him, not because he was being critical of me, but because his point was spoiled by his poor example choice.

What does this say about me??