Sometime's it's a castle

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And sometimes it just eats GI Joe’s

Whenever I was fresh out of high school I bought a Silver Skull Strobe light, and one of my friends wanted it after the big Halloween party. So, I gave it to him because what am I going to do with a strobe light skull after Halloween?

Anyways, years later I visited the dude, because we don’t hang out much since he’s moved has kids, etc. Oddly enough there was the Strobe Light skull I gave him back on 03. Turns out his son plays with it as a castle, or to fight his toys.

It’s funny on how something small actually became part of some bodies life because I thought it would look cool at Halloween. The kid's turning four, and his dad said he'd been playing with it for a couple of years. He'll probably always remember it. I never would have thought that when I picked up the thing ad Big Lots.

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I probably never would have picked it up at Big Lots, however it's because I don't think stories like yous are the norm.

I used to work in retail and it always baffled me how cheap and worthless most of the seasonal merchandise seemed to me, and I always wondered "who would ever buy this crap?" Recently learned the answer to that question: My girlfriend and her mother!

The decorations that struck me as absurd and all rip-offs populate my girlfriend's apartment on the holidays and her family's house as well. I did not say "PsH! Cheap garbage all of it!" when I first learned this though, because oddly enough the decorations seem to give them an amount of joy they consider worthwhile.

Then again it's a proven fact that women spend more shopping than men, and if I consider myself over budget when I shop then they MUST be wasting money.

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What can you expect, I was 19, and in big lots to by moving straps to hold down stuff in the back of a truck moving something. Naturally if you see a giant shiny skull that has a strobe light in it you think "cool."

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Jan 7, 2011 7:25:53 GMT -5 @kidmarvel said:

What can you expect, I was 19, and in big lots to by moving straps to hold down stuff in the back of a truck moving something. Naturally if you see a giant shiny skull that has a strobe light in it you think "cool."

Unless it's a candy bar, I've never been a big impulse buyer.

My ways of doing things aren't perfect, but in this area I consider myself well-adapted. Well-adapted or not, also recognize that most people have NOT made this adaptation. Especially young adults who are just making decent incomes for the first time.