I want to pay with string!
(It’s wrapped around my body…)
No, seriously though, that’s not an option, is it? ‘Cos you can’t buy string any more.
I’m going crazy. It’s supposed to be there. It’s part of our culture. “Brown paper packages tied up with string.” “Tie a string around your finger.” Every single children’s craft book published before the 1970s. But walk into a store today and ask them if they have string, and they look at you like you’re from Mars. As far as I have been able to determine, the 99 Cent Only store, K-Mart, and Target are devoid of string. Granted, I don’t even really know where to look. I can buy sewing thread at Joanne’s. I can buy hemp twine at Home Depot. But what about simple string? Does it even exist any longer?
In the late 1980s, I found a KayBee toy store that was having a clearance on summer and fall toys in winter. I bought two or three reels of kite string, and they fulfilled my string needs for the next 15 years or so, until I lost it in a move. I’m going crazy. Somebody send me string!
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January 27th, 2008 at 6:02 pm
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January 29th, 2008 at 10:03 am
OK, I totally agree with you on this one. You know what else threw me for a loop (no pun intended, really) — trying to find *kitchen twine* to tie up the legs of a roasting chicken. Seems simple, right? And NO I didn’t want to go buy it on Amazon from some random storefront. I wanted to walk into the store and buy it. Vons? Nope. In fact, no grocery store had it. I had to go to Sur La Table and pay, like, 3,000% too much. I hate that!!! I guess what led me to leaving this comment initially is that kitchen twine reminds me a lot of the string one uses to tie up brown paper packages.
Forgive this rant…I am on day five of battling that bastard cousin of the plague that is going around and it has taken over my brain!
P.S. I was a smartass, for the record. I put “duh” as the answer to 3+3. Thank goodness my post was still here.
January 30th, 2008 at 11:34 pm
Amanda’s URL is fixed now and should work. :-p