Backstory: My mom is addicted to the Shopping Channel.
Mom: Hey guess what I bought? These gloves that, when you wash a potato while wearing them, they scrub the potato skin off for you! Neat!
Me: Mum, you like potatoes with the skins on. You always go on about how the only healthy part of a potato is the skin.
Mom: OMG you’re right! What have I done!
Also, those gloves only remove the skin off a cooked potato. They don’t tell you that.
March 26, 2010 at 5:45 pm
Ow! Burned skinless potato hands! Otherwise that’s a very funny post!
March 27, 2010 at 9:45 am
Don’t even get me started on the Egg Separator she bought at 3am on the Shopping Channel… her insomnia was very expensive for our household!
March 27, 2010 at 10:20 am
I coughed up my Diet Coke. She sounds adorable.
March 27, 2010 at 1:27 pm
This is good. My grandmother buys stuff just because it’s on sale, even if she doesn’t need or want it just because it’s a good deal!
March 27, 2010 at 3:37 pm
Good job, Mom! Cute post. This sounds like my grandma.
March 29, 2010 at 11:14 am
Dept. of Useless Kitchen Gadgetry…
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