misosouper, a shopping blog

I can’t believe I’m about to write this, but my last Splurge-day Thursday post before Christmas is… a Kindle. My husband and I spent weeks trying to decide what to get his parents this year, and it was simply the best thing for them. Their shelves (much like ours) can’t hold any more books, but they are voracious readers. I love books as objects, I love the printed page, and so do they. This’ll just be a nice add-on. That’s all.

Man, I wish they had invented one of these stop animation cameras when I was a kid! I would’ve made the best My Little Pony movies in the whole world. And probably would’ve become the next Coppola. Just sayin’.

As someone who still mourns the passing of Domino magazine, I was excited to hear about the launch of the new shelter magazine, Anthology. And after seeing a real live copy in print (glossy photos! crisp fonts! pages to turn!), I’m all for supporting this new venture with gift subscriptions for a few lovely ladies on my list. While some people may scoff at magazine subscriptions as gifts, I loved it when my step-mom sent me Real Simple. I sent her a little mental thank you note every time it appeared on my doorstep!

It’s catalog week on misosouper, and for today’s gadget post there was only one place to turn: the mother of all mail-order catalogs, SkyMall. It was hard to decide which spectacularly ridiculous product to feature, so I just chose the first one that caught my eye. The Roll-Up Electric Piano. Which, according to the description on the web, is “The Greatest Gift.” Ever.

Of course this Mechanical Kitty Coin Bank is from Japan. Where else would they come up with the idea of making an adorable kitten pop out of a box to steal your money?