Illo Friday - Envy
When I think of envy, I think of the 1950s when just about every home and garden magazine was filled with ads telling women how they could provoke unwholesome jealousy in their friends if only they had this refrigerator, that rug, these well-behaved children, that perfect poodle. It amazes me now how blatant the message was. We still do the same thing today, of course, but with a little more subtlety.
So … this is my homage to those wonderful days of Melmac envy, ODOR-O-NO shame and upwardly mobile products like Mayday Oil, Gator Roach Hives, GE’s “Electric Sink,” and Gaines Homogenized Dog Food.
And here’s the fun part … what are the canasta-playing women in the other room saying behind her back? Post your captions below.
And, oh yeah, if anyone wants the instructions for the Spam castle, don’t expect me to share it with you. It was handed down to me from my mother and took me days and I don’t know how many cans of Spam to make it. I will be passing it down to my daughter,