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« 'Santa's Boots' and more for your alt--holiday mix CD | Main | Tryptophan weekend: Eat, sleep, surf, eat; More Christmas mp3s; Reinstate Saddam? » November 25, 2006Worst gift ever: The Transparent RefrigeratorWorst idea ever: Invisible Japanese Refrigerator, from Japan's National Electronics. Name it accurately, and people will run away screaming. Invisible? This is a TRANSPARENT Refrigerator. At our house, this fridge would be decadent art after two days, a DaDa poem, a mother-and-daughter photo blotting out the tops of limp carrots set against cranberry sauce in muted Tupperware, overlaid by fingerprints that help soften the hard edges of that mysterious yellow spill, melting down the front of the vegetable bin. If it were Invisible, we wouldn't mind -- it's impossible to clean behind all that magnetic poetry, photos, postcards and dangling phone numbers, all anchored by hard and soft magnets. Some obviously arrived via Christmas stocking. Others advertise nearby restaurants that hope, on those days the fridge is empty, we'll spy their number as we sadly close its door. They wouldn't be bad floating in a thin curtain in space, if the fridge were invisible. These people are crazy. They probably buy food by what colors look best in their fridge. They've been sniffing way too much Windex. (You will, too, if you get this thing). Here it is, spotless, unadorned, and well-stocked, especially with beer:
How much of your life would you want to spend maintaining this facade? p.s. There's a transparent clothes dryer, too, which our cats might like. Posted by Sheila Lennon
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