Cheap and tacky crap you can buy at a plaza near you

I went to the plaza this morning with James, Liz, Carbi and Aramis in tow (read: James and Liz went to the plaza with the dogs and I bummed a lift). I finally found an appropriate tree for Pop.

I found a really cute little fibre-optic tree that is 35cm tall (thats a little over a foot for all you yanks out there that can't mentally convert :p ). It fits all my criteria: it's less than 40cm, it's easilly portable, it's got twinkly red and orange lights, and it's battery powered. As an added bonus it's also USB powered, but I cut the cord off since the chances of him ever owning a computer at this stage in his life are less than none. I was so impressed I bought one for myself.

While we walked around looking in the crafty shops we came across this item: a WWJD? fun pak. It has the letters W, J, D and ? (but twice as many Ws as the other three, obviously), cord and beads.


Just when I thought that I'd seen the tackiest object in the entire plaza in the WWJD kit, we walked into the $2 shop. My eyes were assaulted by two Virgin Mary wall clocks, complete with neonesque strobe lights behind them. Now I've seen everything.