The Clam Rampant

Kasia March 24th, 2009

My sweet husband has been doing a commendable job of keeping up with our laundry, cooking our meals, etc., pending his being given permission to work (and then finding a job, which we know isn’t that easy right now). He has, however, been lobbying for us to replace the laundry baskets I had been using for the last six or seven years; the ones I have are a very flexible plastic, and he prefers a rigid plastic. What’s more, he was hoping we could find one that was curved in on one side (to conform to the hip) for one-handed carrying.

I said that as soon as we had a little extra cash in the budget, we could do that. (Yes, for the first month or so we really didn’t have the extra $10 to do it…we could’ve scrapped our little “dining out” budget, but we both preferred the luxury of being able to eat out a couple of times a month to having new laundry baskets.)

Well, this month we had some money set aside for “household” (which in my budgetary parlance can mean anything from shampoo to a new iron). So we stopped at Target on Sunday afternoon to pick up a few things and to look for a laundry basket that fit his specs.

They didn’t have one with the hip contouring.

My beloved got a little discouraged and ventured that perhaps they aren’t manufactured anymore.

I thought it more likely that Target just didn’t carry them.

Ahem.

I’m guessing that this is one of the differences between shopping in Canada and shopping in the U.S. – that if, say, Canadian Tire doesn’t carry something particular, that it’s unlikely that Zeller’s or Wal-Mart will carry it.

Sweetie, remember what you said when I decided to see if I could rush-order a different wedding dress? This is America…you can get almost anything as long as you’re willing to pay for it. 

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