In the retail world, if you make me happy, I’m a customer for life. If not, I’m gone. I realized recently how extreme my loyal consumer ways have gotten. For two months, my husband and I lived apart, to accomodate a relocation process. During that time, he bought his own stuff; toothpaste, hair stuff, cleaning supplies and the like. He bought different stuff than I buy, so now, back together, we have two tubes of toothpaste, two kinds of contact lens solution, etc.

I’m pretty strict with my brand loyalty. My toothpaste is Crest, my eye care comes from Bausch and Lomb and at our house, toilet paper must be Charmin. During a trip to Sam’s, my husband bought something like 100 rolls of Northern. I’m dying, here. Who thought getting back together would be this hard?

One item he had purchased that I do like, and will continue to buy, is the Clorox toilet cleaning wand. It completely eliminates the disgusting toilet brushes that never made sense in the first place.

Steal of the week
Get this — after fruitless searching for the perfect chair for our livingroom, we found a complete steal in this leather chair and ottoman ($500 on sale). We ordered it online (that’s right — never saw it in person, never sat in it, we’re wacky trusters of the Internet over here) Sunday evening and it arrived TODAY!