Wacky Product Museum

A few bloopers stopped me in my tracks at the Housewares Show last week, but I overhead some people saying they loved them, which shocked me. Go figure. With all due respect to their inventors--because God knows creativity is a wild card--check out these three:

1. Toilet Tattoo.
Scares me, starting with the name. It's a removable, reusable cover for your toilet lid in zany patterns, like Koi Fish and Frogs in Moonlight. God help me. I lean toward a cluttered house, not a crazy museum. I cannot bare to picture it here in my blog. Wouldn't want to startle you.

2. Bagel Guillotine.
What more can I say. Insert bagel, push down on handle, remember Salem witch trials.

3. Shoedini
The handle of the shoe horn extends so you can get your pump or loafer on without hurting your back. I think it's the name I like least of all. Also, I sat near a man on the shuttle bus from the show saying that his dad had a shoe repair store and those things were around 30 years ago, so they're nothing new. And, when I took my dad to the doctor a few years ago, he received a plastic, arm-long shoehorn free of charge.

Enough said.