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We do not have cable, so during the week the only cartoons my children can watch are on PBS. Those boring educational cartoons that have no advertisements. When Saturday morning rolls around the three of us gleefully sit in front of the TV and watch qubo, more slightly boring and trying-to-be educational cartoons, but at least they are different cartoons from our normal ones.
However, qubo being on KSN means these cartoons have advertisements. My sweet trusting children have not yet learned about the lies (errr…exaggerations) these ad agencies use to promote those various products, which means G and Little Missy truly believe we need each of what they’re selling.
“Mommy, you should get that thing where you can put all your shoes under your bed! It’s so great!”
“Mommy, you should get a prayer cross necklace! It’s so great!”
The biggest problem is those Skechers commercials. One day in the car Little Missy told me she wanted Skechers because they help her run fast. “Run fast?” I asked. “How’d you hear that?”
“Oh they told us on TV,” G calmly informed me, without the slightest hint of sarcasm that will surely come with age.
I told Hubby about Little Missy’s desire for Skechers--he of the intensely frugal, refuses to spend money to replace his worn out tennis shoes that he wears to work every day--thinks we should indulge his daughter and buy the Skechers.
Last week at lunch a fellow mom told me of her plight to find the particular Skechers all the preschool girls want. Then she told me they cost upwards of $40.
That price made me catch my breath. Forty dollars? On shoes my daughter will wear for six months? For two years I wore the same pair of flip-flops that cost me all of $10. For the Skechers I was thinking maybe $25, $27 if I’m in a particularly good mood when we find them.
Today we’re going shoe shopping and I’m crossing my fingers that Little Missy will be awe-struck by sparkly, off-brand Skechers and joyously take them home. But curses on those Saturday morning commercials that are doing nothing to help me in my quest to be frugal.
We do not have cable, so during the week the only cartoons my children can watch are on PBS. Those boring educational cartoons that have no advertisements. When Saturday morning rolls around the three of us gleefully sit in front of the TV and watch qubo, more slightly boring and trying-to-be educational cartoons, but at least they are different cartoons from our normal ones.
However, qubo being on KSN means these cartoons have advertisements. My sweet trusting children have not yet learned about the lies (errr…exaggerations) these ad agencies use to promote those various products, which means G and Little Missy truly believe we need each of what they’re selling.
“Mommy, you should get that thing where you can put all your shoes under your bed! It’s so great!”
“Mommy, you should get a prayer cross necklace! It’s so great!”
The biggest problem is those Skechers commercials. One day in the car Little Missy told me she wanted Skechers because they help her run fast. “Run fast?” I asked. “How’d you hear that?”
“Oh they told us on TV,” G calmly informed me, without the slightest hint of sarcasm that will surely come with age.
I told Hubby about Little Missy’s desire for Skechers--he of the intensely frugal, refuses to spend money to replace his worn out tennis shoes that he wears to work every day--thinks we should indulge his daughter and buy the Skechers.
Last week at lunch a fellow mom told me of her plight to find the particular Skechers all the preschool girls want. Then she told me they cost upwards of $40.
That price made me catch my breath. Forty dollars? On shoes my daughter will wear for six months? For two years I wore the same pair of flip-flops that cost me all of $10. For the Skechers I was thinking maybe $25, $27 if I’m in a particularly good mood when we find them.
Today we’re going shoe shopping and I’m crossing my fingers that Little Missy will be awe-struck by sparkly, off-brand Skechers and joyously take them home. But curses on those Saturday morning commercials that are doing nothing to help me in my quest to be frugal.
