QVC

With turmoil in Egypt mounting and crisis all over the world, it seems frivolous to focus on shopping and excess. However, in my own little world there is an abundance of stress these days...a broken dryer, a teenager with a rotten attitude, overdue grad school papers. Gotta take a break from serious for a few minutes....

When we moved into our new house the six-, now seven-year old longed to put candles in the windows. With 15 rooms there is no shortage of windows so we settled on enough electric candles for the front windows that face the road. We purchased an even two dozen candles at Lowe's, filled them with AA batteries, screwed on the tops, and allowed W to set them out.

Each morning W loosed the bulbs to turn off the candles, and each night he lit them again. The ambiance they created was warm and welcoming.

This lasted for maybe three days. Then the boys began to use the candles as props for "scary games." Several candles got knocked off of their posts and were broken. We blew through two value packs of batteries. I took several shards of broken bulb glass in the heel.

Enough with the candles.

At our Open House a friend visited and said, "Oh, the QVC candles are so much better." Better ,how? They don't shatter? They don't use batteries so quickly? They burn brighter? Are they tied into a switch so that all 24 turn on and off at once?

I began to wonder if i'd really missed something with the QVC thing. I don't have TV, but I've certainly seen the show while staying at hotels. I could look it up on the internet.

Some of my girlfriends shop there quite often, but I usually tune out the conversation when it turns to this topic. What if it's true?! Do you shop on QVC?

Signed,
Mom with an inferiority complex.