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Beethoven’s Treasure Tail on Blu-ray Combo Pack, Perfect For Family Movie Night!!!
The weekend is here! Are you thinking about something fun for tonight for the whole family? How about a family movie night? Pick up your favorite movie candy, pop up some buttery popcorn and hunker down together for a movie night to unwind from a busy week. If that sounds good, I have a family movie recommendation for you. Beethoven’s Treasure Tail Blu-Ray, DVD & Digital HD Combo Pack is a great family movie choice that everyone will love.
Beethoven, America’s favorite St. Bernard is back and starring in this all new family comedy!
Eddie (Jonathan Silverman, Beethoven’s Big Break) has had a bad day! A disastrous movie shoot Beethoven and Eddie head home but instead get stranded in a small coastal village. Big hearted Beethoven befriends a local boy and helps him find a pirate map to lost treasure. The two em-bark on an adventure to find the treasure that will save their town and ultimately bring the whole town together. This heartwarming tale shows that if you choose to be happy you can have fun wherever life leads you.
My kids love animal movie movies especially dog movies! My older kids love the other Beethoven movies and my little guys just could not wait to watch this movie. What could be more fun than to watch lovable Beethoven in this pirate map following, treasure seeking, hillarious adventure that will make you laugh and touch your heart.
So, check it out for yourself with your family and let me know what you think.
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Why is There Controversy Over The Anatomically Correct Boy Doll?
My Facebook feed has been full of posts about the controversy over an anatomically correct baby boy doll that is being sold at Toys R Us. I want to know why this is making news when anatomically correct boy dolls have been around for so long.
When I was a kid, I had an anatomically correct baby boy doll made by Mattel. He was in the Baby Tenderlove line of dolls and was sold as their little brother. Being the daughter of a mother that loved dolls, I had dolls of all kinds and that included several of the Ideal, Tenderlove dolls.
Now in the mid to late 70’s when this doll was introduced there was also another anatomically correct boy doll by Ideal that was on the market, called Archie Bunker’s Grandson Joey, from the sitcom All In The Family.
This little doll was very similar to Ideal’s Tenerderlove little boy. Funny thing is, when we were buying the Joey doll, we got home to find that Baby Tenderlove had been put in the box instead. The only reason I knew it was not Joey was the eye color was different. So I had a Joey box and Tenerderlove doll. Either way they were very similar and both with their little boy parts. I still have him around here somewhere.
So back to the original question of why is this an issue now in the year 2014? Does this cause anyone real issues? Recently I heard 2 colleagues who are in their early 30’s say they were not allowed to have a Ken doll growing up. That’s a foreign concept to me and all the little girls I played with growing up had Ken to go with their Barbie and be a husband and a dad. I would think those parents would want their girls to have the traditional family dynamic.
I truly cannot comprehend what must have been their train of thought. Do they think somehow a Ken doll will corrupt their daughter and how exactly would that happen? Like I said, I liked having the family dynamic of a mom and dad Barbie family and it did not cause issues of any kind. 
I think not being allowed to have the doll raises more issues and does more harm. It also instills that men are bad or will have the child then focused on what’s the reason her parents will not allow Ken in the house. So in the long run, trying to protect their child from whatever it is they are trying to protect them from is instead focusing the child’s attention on it.
As I am writing this, I just remembered the 70’s Sunshine Dolls also from Mattel. I had these dolls too and they were sold as a family unit with a mother, father and baby or baby and toddler. I think this is a healthy concept for kids and you could even buy additional kids, babies and grandparents as well as a craft store business and family home.
In closing I think a much more controversial doll is the Breast Milk Baby doll by Berjun. In my opinion, it’s a very weird concept that little girls should put on a top that gives them breasts so they can breastfeed their doll. I understand it’s natural, but natural for a woman not a little girl. The whole idea of it is unsettling to me. However, an anatomically correct boy doll; that’s so last century!
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Craigslist Fails, Bloopers and Ads That Make You Say, “What The Heck Were They Thinking???”
Do you have luck finding great deals on Craigslist? I have found some great treasures like my huge, oak roll top desk and some antique furniture for incredible prices. However, it does take some searching and the luck of good timing. While browsing ads, you are bound to run into some ads that truly will have you scratching your head.
There are people selling things who cannot even bother to close a drawer or dust the top off a desk or dresser, take pictures of a mirror showing their shirtless selves in the background, think anything old is antique, vintage or worth a lot of money.
I want to share some recent “What the Heck?” moments with you and let me know if you have found some funnies in your neck of Craigslist. Another brilliant ad are the ones that say something like “curb alert” or state that if this does not sell tody it will be on the curb tomorrow but the asking price is firm. LOL, yes let me come pay you tonight instead of getting it off the curb tomorrow. I am so amused that they are not budging on the price now but in less than 24 hours they don’t care to even get one dollar for it. These had to be the ones who were at the top of their marketing class!
Enjoy:
Fine old chair the ad states, just needs upholstering. I have no idea what could have caused those rips and I am telling you now be very wary if he says it is from a pet free home, but it’s yours for $75 much to the cat’s dismay.
Found an Antique Snuggle Bear in the Antique listings, was not aware the Snuggle Bear was a sought after item much less an antique! $15 is the asking price for this heirloom!
Should I close the drawers and at least kick the mess away from the floor? Nah, that is such a quality piece that people will not even notice.
Man in the mirror times 2!
They said it will be clean when you pick it up. Eww, if you are going to clean it, how about wait until you do to list it for sale.
Felicity is an antique? I guess so since she is listed as an antique doll. People should really look the word up and vintage, discontinued, collectible or old do not qualify everything as antique.
I myself would not classify this as Antique but apparently this man does along with “Highly Collectible” and for $30 he will even let you take some VHS tapes to go with it! Hey better jump on this fast it only has minimal flaws!
ANTIQUE INDUSTRIAL REPRODUCTION DISTRESSED LARGE WALL CLOCK – $185 (sold by an antique store) I know he says reproduction but he says, “sold by an antique store”. He fails to mention he picked this up at Hobby Lobby on the bi weekly 50% off sale.
Yeah that looks like the back of an antique! LOL
Are they selling the rocking chair or the plants? Apparently the rocking chair because they need to buy a plant stand.
Now for something sad, sometimes the furniture itself is so embarrassed it leaves in what we call “furniture without borders.”
The dresser is trying desperately to get away and almost made it, until the woman found it and is trying to force it back in the house
The dresser distraction was not in vain because it allowed the coat tree to high tail it down the road.
This is for sale under Vintage Artificial Fruit! That certainly looks exactly like what you buy in the Walmart craft aisle.
Listed as Metal Thingy–Guy selling it says he has no idea what it is but it has to be worth something.
Hey wait, I have seen these before. I guess the sales were not so brisk with the man in them. Now we have the dog sitting patiently on the stairs
Look the ultra safe Vintage Lawn Darts complete with several layers of dust and filth.
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The Good Old Days of Party Lines, Live Operators and Busy Signals!!!
The other day I was talking with my aunt who is in her 80’s. She is very spry, goes to fitness classes and very active physically and mentally. We were talking about calling someone and I told her the call went straight to voice mail and that maybe the person was on the line. She then said to me, “Wouldn’t that give you a busy signal then?” When she said that I was so surprised, “busy signal” when is the last time I had heard one of those?
I laughed and told her no, that it would just go to voice mail and even wondered if the busy signal still existed. It made me think and since my uncle and her and my family both had vacation homes on the same lake, it made me think back to a time when I was super young and on the lake people had party lines. Can you even imagine?
Our party line was with my Aunt and Uncle and for those that don’t know; a party line is a phone line that people share. They were very popular in vacation areas and one household had a regular ring and the other a variation. We had the regular ring and my Aunt and Uncle had the 2 short rings. When I think about it now it seems surreal. Can you imagine? I remember listening for the phone and either saying it was ours or theirs. You also had to be careful when you picked up to dial out because the other family may be using the phone. I remember stories from other kids on the lake who were on party lines with unrelated families proudly recanting conversations they eavesdropped on.
We had moved to a private line by the time I was probably 5 so I do not have that many memories but when I think of it today, I cringe. What if you were on a party line with someone who received incessant calls at all hours of the night, or that used the phone all time so you could never call out or get calls in?
My kids know nothing of party lines and would probably think I was out of my mind if I told them how it worked. How times have changed! Speaking of busy signals, do you remember how you could click the little disconnect buttons three times to reach an operator? Do you remember how the operator could ring a phone that was off the hook if say a small child was monkeying around with it? Also, how when you reached a number that was busy for so long and you would call the operator to interrupt the line because it was say your home line and you knew a younger sibling was using the phone or your mom doing it to you when she was trying to call home. The operator would click into the line and say, “I have so and so on the line and they say it is an emergency will you give up the line?” Ah good times!
The Rotary Dial was another time saver, NOT! Ever try to call in on a radio station contest with one of those? Then when they had the push buttons with pulse mode you still had to wait but you could push a button. No auto redial and redialing on the rotary dial really gave those fingers that do the walking a workout! Speaking of letting your fingers do the walking, remember the bit phone books that doubled as booster seats? Do you even use a phone book now? I can’t even imagine. Phones and technology have truly come a long way baby!
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