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[–] Orbituary 86 points 3 months ago (2 children)

This describes my girlfriend. She sees a miniature hammer at a store and gushes about how cute it is. She collects trinkets like a crow.

[–] SpaceNoodle 30 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Is her name Raven? Does she have obsidian plumage and a large beak?

[–] Viking_Hippie 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

And do crows frequently attack her?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago

Does she command scores of armies at a whim, millions of black shadowed death daggers swooping to cast her foes to ghost in blanketed silence muffled only be the screams of her victims?

[–] shneancy 23 points 3 months ago (1 children)

collecting trinkets is so fun

i wish temu wasn't run on slave labour, there're so many little trinkets there

[–] SpaceNoodle 18 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] shneancy 16 points 3 months ago (1 children)

but do we have 10 barely working calligraphy pens? 🥺

[–] SpaceNoodle 11 points 3 months ago
[–] [email protected] 59 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 34 points 3 months ago

Sugarman is legit one of my favorite figures because he is so ugly.

[–] ysjet 56 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Kind of adorable that the last poster's boyfriend knows her well enough to know that she wanted the lime.

I bet he clocked that thing as something they were buying, possibly even before she saw it lol

[–] [email protected] 23 points 3 months ago

She sounds ~~impossible~~ sensitive enough that he's probably ~~always on high alert~~ mindful of her needs

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 months ago

I've done similar things with my fiancee. She's extremely emotive and oblivious though, so it makes it easy on me to notice stuff that is either bothering her or that she wants. When I go to the store alone I usually get her whatever candy she was eyeing last time we went together. She still doesn't know how I know what she was craving.

[–] ultrahamster64 35 points 3 months ago

Dude's a legend

[–] partial_accumen 27 points 3 months ago (2 children)

A the discount grocery store I buy the cereal box that is banged up. I'll open it to verify the bag inside is still air tight, but if the only issue is the cosmetic box itself I don't care and will buy it. If I don't, then its possible the beaten up box will be discarded from being non-sold. Increased shrink (retail term for product that doesn't get sold) will mean prices go up on everything and possibly the workers don't get raises (or not as big a raise) to cover the loss.

I'm fine with a beaten up box if it means my price stay low and workers get raises.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago

I've been buying the crushed Chaos boxes for MTG cards at my local Walmart this year. These things have probably been sitting in storage forever instead of being sent back but I grab them when I see them. They've been real good to me. I pulled a Rhystic Study, Ragavan, Ao the sky dawn, and a Junji the Midnight Sky out of them this summer.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

Same with fruit. Who cares if the apple has a brown spot if it gets eaten the same day?

[–] Subtracty 15 points 3 months ago

This reminds me of the children's book Corduroy about a stuffed animal that gets left on the shelf because his overalls are missing a button. I blame that book for my irrational dedication to inanimate objects.

[–] gmtom 12 points 3 months ago (2 children)

What's a teamaker? Do they mean a teapot?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

Maybe something like a Teasmade, which you can set to make tea at a certain time, like a caffeinated alarm clock.

[–] affiliate 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

I'm a little teamaker

[–] MissJinx 5 points 3 months ago

As a woman I can relate. Sometimes the hormones boil and we start doing shit like this. And don't even get me started on ad breaks. That shit is saaad