Endangered Product List- Dire Dire!

Please be advised that many products that have been with us for decades are in true decline and need your financial or at least meditative support. In dire straits, these products have been pushed aside for more "safe" products that will never stack up in comparison to the original. Like the politically correct landslide of the past 20 years, so to has the market and demand changed for ordinary staples. Take notes! The world is changing.

First let us remember the good old days of permanent markers. once upon a time, you could go to an Ace Hardware store or Eckerd's and buy packs of real markers...meaning permanent markers. I needed one recently and searched every one of our boy's craft boxes and computer area for ONE. None was to be found..but plenty of washable, fragranced, wipable, and other variations were found. What happened to markers that were supposed to Mark- and stick around. Isn't that the point? If I wanted something to fade or not mark anything permanently, I would use chalk. When did people get so wimpy that the demand for UN-permanent markers went into decline? Is it going to kill you if oops some gets on your kids hand? no. That's what soap is for..don't even get me started on soap.

Soap- There are bath gels, antibacterial pumps, bath mousse, bath cream, and many variations put out by brands like Axe, Bath and Body Works, etc. I enjoy a hard bar of soap that smells like soap. Even Irish Spring. Yes, something that is not liquid and that costs $6 a bottle. Soap- old school. Clean smelling. The kind that when you open a bar package, the whole room smells like it. Soap, goodbye old friend, your world is surely fading.

Butter- stick butter. If you ever have the time, notice what is in the butter section. Olive oil margarine blends, oily pans of weird formulas that keep your heart healthy. Everything is in the butter section except for butter.  I enjoy and use products like this on occasion -rarely. But look for the real butter sticks. remember sticks of butter? I don't mean the "Mad Men" era use for it when people poured vats of it onto Thanksgiving turkeys, but just butter you would use with your mom to make cookies or pies. Butter. it was nice knowing you...

Real Whole Foods - this addresses the problem brought up in Michael Pollan's books. (read them). You can buy all the produce you want (whole foods) and still won't get the same amount of nutrition that the same foods offered 30 years ago and beyond. A carrot sold today, even organic, does not have the same amount of vitamins and minerals a carrot eaten in 1940 would have. Common sense but why? Because we don't farm the old school way. We leach our soils, add in "nutrients", use genetic superfood production to make things bigger and prettier. All of these things have now created a vitamin deficient world of produce. Best advice- eat a ton of organic whole foods, try to take action for new ways of farming, grow your own, and take supplements. Beer helps with this problem too. Solves all the world's problems I hear.

Well, I am enjoying a very corporate Starbuck's homemade coffee and a quiet morning, but time has come to return to mommy world right now. I enjoy it more these days, parenthood was more a struggle for me than I ever thought, but my mind is finally wrapped around the reality of this incredible responsibility given to me. Life isn't always perfect, but who cares. Life is always good just by being there.

enjoy your day friends...