Apr
26
Check this out: Adopting Is The New Black
Apparently Urban Outfitters thinks it’s all cool and edgy and funny to infer that anyone who is adopting is doing so to be trendy. Like this is a decision that was as easy to make as buying a trashy poor-quality new T shirt, let’s say. Like it requires no more thought and effort and soul-searching and emotional and financial investment than clicking on a crappy website and buying a tacky T shirt.
Well, I am here to tell you, Urban Bastard Outfitters, that you are sorely mistaken. Adoption is not a fashion statement. It’s a challenging, exciting, expensive, difficult, and ultimately rewarding process that unites parents who would like a family with children who need a family. It requires months and years of effort, and emotional ups and downs, and soul searching, and financial struggle, and love, and faith to make it happen. No one – NOT ONE PERSON — involved in adoption takes the decision lightly. No one — NOT ONE PERSON — involved in adoption does so because they think it will be cool or hip or fashionable.
And now I am here to ask everyone to boycott Urban Outfitters until they lose that insulting, incredibly offensive T shirt from all their stores and their website. I call on every one of you to write to them and tell them you will not support a business that demeans adoptive parents, children, birth parents, and adoptive families worldwide. Or you can write to their President, Richard Hayne (richard.hayne@urbanout.com). Or both, if you like.
And I call on Urban Outfitters to pull that offensive T shirt from all their stores and make a public apology to adoptive families everywhere. Man up, Urban Outfitters. Do the right thing.
Apr
26
I have issues. REAL issues. COUPON issues.
Saving money is a big thing now at our house, so I am trying to shop with coupons these days. I even made a binder full of those plastic pockets labelled by month to organize all my coupons.
But there’s a small problem.
When I have a coupon, sometimes it’s such a good deal that I feel I MUST buy whatever it is I have the coupon for. And it may be that I have never used the item in my entire life. Some things I have never even HEARD of. And yet? The temptation is mighty.
Here, for example, I have a coupon for Crisco shortening. Something I have never used in my entire life. Something that does not fit into my current cooking plans. And yet, I feel strangely compelled to go pick up some shortening.
And here? Foaming hand sanitizer. Somehow I feel I MUST have this. Despite the fact that we have bottles of hand sanitizer around the house that I have never used, not once.
And HP Sauce. I have loathed HP Sauce my entire life. But hey, I have a $1 off coupon, so you just know I am considering buying some.
This coupon love is starting to become a THING with me. I am feeling a little obsessed.
I want to get signed up on all the baby product websites to get coupons for all kinds of baby stuff. I want to go to all the product websites and see if I can’t sign up to have them send me MORE coupons. I am trying to figure out if there are coupon websites here in Canada that send out coupons.
I fear I may end up actually spending MORE money because of the coupons, instead of saving money.
Now if you’ll excuse me, I have to go make a grocery list. The end of April is coming, and I have a bunch of coupons expiring April 30.
