I consider myself a treehugger. Not that I literally run around hugging trees, but when I see a good idea around I silently applaud the object of my appreciation. My recent discovery is treehugger.com. So I’m sifting around and reading these articles and out of nowhere in the ‘Planet Green’ section, I found this really out of place article excerpt.

“Those things that go bump in the night are often my shins whacking into some stray piece of furniture (or even one that’s always been there, but seems so utterly out-of-place at 2 in the morning.)”

The writer, Lynda Fassa, deserves a round of virtual applause. This article was so out of place and goes on later in the article to say-

“Whatever the case, it’s my job–and my pleasure–to banish the banshees and get everyone back to the Land of Nod. Well, my task just got a whole heap easier…. Now there’s a product, all natural and benign, that zaps those monsters and scares them so much, they might not ever come back. It’s the Monster Spray from Seaside Naturals ($7.99 for 4 ounces). Though you may be thinking that this is one of those “unnecessary” purchases that we talk about about when we encourage consumers to buy less, if you’ve ever had a little who knows these monsters well, you’d beg to differ.”

This article left me laughing very hard, not to mention surprised at this sort of wacky style of writing.

Of course, I think that the whole product is a waste. Since when are we going to go around with sprays to get rid of ‘monsters’, even if it is to satisfy our kids? Is this just some sort of expensive air freshener that she’s trying to sell?! I think that there are better places our money should go to, and better ideas to calm our kids.

If you would like to laugh harder, than be my guest and check this random article out.

One question- how in the WORLD does this relate to trees? Or saving them?

-Rika

Oh by the way I KNOW that we have left you poor readers hanging by a moment without an intriguing article coming out every two days recently, but I have been out of town and unable to write any articles (and apparently our staff was being lazy, too!) Ok, ok, to be fair it was Piratical Lord of the Guitar’s birthday on the 13th, so she was not obligated to write anything, plus Jennith is busy and- alright, enough excuses.

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