No Luck at Best Buy, Staples

Today we went looking for two seemingly random items.

1) A CD organizer

2) A laser pointer

As we are preparing to move, Luke seems to finally agree with me that it is a grand idea to put all of your CDs in a book or small organizer instead of in all those damn plastic cases. I wish he had this epiphany last year. Every single possible combination we could come up with for organizing CDs were made in China; the zip up books, the secret agent lock boxes, even the clear sleeves that you can store in a 3 ring binder. Granted we only checked two stores so far, but the outlook isn't promising.

In case you are wondering, my two year old child side did make an appearance when I proclaimed that it was about time he was effected by this boycott as well. I only said it once, with a smile on my face and then we moved on to trying to find the next random item.

We've been looking for a laser pointer for our cats since the one Luke's mom gave us at Thanksgiving died. Our cats go crazy for this toy and we find it hilarious to watch. It is also the only way to really get Jezebella to exercise (perhaps she looks at us with disdain, since we could use a lot of exercise ourselves!).

We were able to find a few laser pointers made in Taiwan, but we are specifically looking for one that takes AAA sized batteries or larger, since we don't want to spend more money on the ridiculously small batteries than we did on the pointer.

If anyone knows were to buy either of these items not made in China, I'd love to hear about it. Until then, the CDs will be a mess and our cats will look like shorter, hairier versions of our unexercised selves.

Cheers!