Cheap AND Efficient, You Say?

Are you tired of the expense and inefficiency of peeling an orange? Well FEAR NOT! My 9 year old just told me, "I invented a cheap AND efficient way to peel oranges!"

Now, if only I can figure out how to use her method, which involves cutting a hole through the center of the orange, sticking a metal tube through it, and waving the skewered orange around in the air saying, "LOOK AT THE ORANGE, DOGGY!"

CSN Stores are awesome, but the UPS guy hates me!

A few weeks ago I was approached by the people at CSNstores.com to do a product review for them. After many hours of searching, and changing my mind multiple times, I finally settled on a Fatboy beanbag chair, and placed my order.

Checking out was super easy, even with using a gift certificate and my credit card in the same order, and my beanbag was sent quickly. Unfortunately UPS messed up and it danced around in transit for much longer than it should have, but CSN was great about updating me when they expected my chair to arrive, every time the package was re-routed.

Finally the day of delivery came, which happened to coincide with some boxes of Christmas things for my kids, and I think the UPS delivery driver was having a bad day, because he wedged the heavy box behind the screen door, essentially blocking me in the house. Normally I would have just shoved on the box until it moved, but I was recovering from major surgery, and lifting/pushing is a big no-no, so I had to wait until the kids got home from school.

My younger two kids get home first, so their eyes got HUGE when they saw the boxes of things in the doorway, then they looked confused when they realized they were trapped outside in the cold. After a few minutes of them pushing their hardest, they were able to manipulate the box into the doorway, enough so they could climb through and get inside.

Once my husband got home and brought the box all the way into our house, we opened it and there was our new beanbag chair! The kids had never seen such a large beanbag before, and instantly all of them wanted to sit on it. Luckily it's big enough for two of them to sit together on it, like a love seat, if we turn the chair on its side, so most arguments were avoided.

Everyone who comes over falls in love with our Fatboy beanbag chair, and wants to buy their own. We are planning to buy at least one more soon, and will definitely use CSN again.