Mark your calendars: Jan. 31 is National Bubble Wrap Appreciation Day. As if we need a special holiday to appreciate the lovely packaging item! Please.
What other stress-relieving product can liven up a boring day at the office by mimicking the sound of gunfire?
We're not sure when the tradition of devoting appreciation days to pedestrian household products began, but we're looking forward to celebrating Toilet Brush Appreciation Day this summer.
The gift that keeps on giving: Tired of wooing your special someone with chocolates, roses and novelty boxers on Valentine's Day? Why not customize your own romance novel?
Husband and wife team J.S. Fletcher and Kathy M. Newbern run a North Carolina-based specialty publishing business (www.yournovel.com). For $49.95 (plus shipping), they'll write a 150-190-page romance novel starring you and your sweetheart.
You choose whether the novel is "mild" or "wild." According to company press materials, the starring couple could find themselves "skinny-dipping in the Caribbean, frolicking under a waterfall, or making love none-too-easily in a swinging hammock.
"And, because these novels are adventure romances, they'll also be chasing bad guys on wave runners off the North Carolina coast, foiling a stalker on a luxury cruise ship, tangling with a cougar in the wild, or fighting off bad guys near Rome's Coliseum."
They can't pay you to make this stuff up.
Or maybe they can.
-- Elyssa Andrus
This story appeared in The Daily Herald on page B1, Jan. 19, 2005.
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