I'd all but forgotten about it (and by "forgotten about it," I mean I'd added it to the list I keep in my planner of things I'd like to have, but had sort of mentally written it off as a luxury I'd never ask for) when the UPS man rang my doorbell on Tuesday.
"What could that be? Everything I ordered for Christmas got here in plenty of time. I'm not expecting anything else."
I noticed that the return address was Brookstone, and even though my name was in the "To" field of the label, I honestly couldn't think of a reason I'd be receiving this package.
I opened it up, and there was a note on the packing slip that identified the sender as my good friend Melanie ... Melanie, at whose home we spent Dec. 19th for her Christmas party, and who'd said that she would give me my gift later.
Aha! LATER HAS ARRIVED!
Inside the box was this beauty:
ARE YOU KIDDING ME? I literally couldn't open the box quickly enough. I grabbed my good-enough-for-yesterday-but-all-of-a-sudden-not-good-enough-for-today Softsoap dispenser from the kitchen sink and immediately started the Great Softsoap Transfer of '09.
I set the soap dispensing level on the back to the lowest setting, and then I sat it on the ledge behind my stainless steel sink. CRASH. Too wide. It fell in. I moved it to the side of the sink.
GLORY, GLORY, HALLELUJAH. This is a game-changer, folks.
(It's battery-operated ... that cord you see back there is to my can opener, which totally wrecked me the other night. Blog post to follow soon ... if you follow me on Twitter, you already have a clue.)
(Also, my hands are of average size. They are not G-I-A-N-T hands, like they appear in these pictures.)
I have no idea how much this thing costs, but it's my goal in 2010 to have one at each sink in the house. I'M IN LOVE.
10 comments:
I got one, too! I think it was your blog post that gave me the courage to put it on my Christmas list, and Santa did not disappoint! Enjoy!
Oh, I may have to run out and see if Costco still has the two-pack! The younger of my two consistently uses THREE pumps of soap - one for each year old, apparently - and this might just be the ticket.
A TWO-PACK? Are you freaking KIDDING ME? I have to get to Costco today. I have to get to Costco today. I have to get to Costco today ...
Great gift! The boys might even use it!
I'm so glad you love it! And I'm very excited to have made the blog! I'm going to try to step-up the funny and/or the sarcasm so that I can appear more often in 2010.
HAPPY NEW YEAR!
that thing is too cool! i might need to get one myself. we are quite the hand-washing freaks around our house these days!!!
I want one of these! My husband thinks it is a little too much. :( He's a party pooper!
Melanie is one of the BEST gift-givers of all time :)
Katie, she really is! Love her to pieces. And I can't TELL you how thrilled she was to make the blog. It's been a goal of hers for a long time. (You know, she has no life.)
Wow! I would be afraid that my hoard would break it. :)
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