This week’s topic from the League is all about opening up about our guilty pleasures. This topic is insanely hard for me to tackle because I’m pretty open about all of the stupid or weird stuff I’m into, and I don’t feel particularly guilty about any of it. After doing some soul searching I guess the thing that most qualifies as a guilty pleasure for me would be the enormous thrill I get when buying and cracking the cover on a vintage Mom magazine. You know the ones, McCall’s, Woman’s Day, Working Woman, Woman’s Week, any of the tabloid supermarket checkout magazines aimed at the modern woman in the 80s.
Over the last 4 years I’ve culled a decent amount of content for this site from my rather large “archive” of these magazines. Return of the Jedi jungle Gym ads? Check. Pudding Pop ads? Check. Sizzlean and Frank ‘n Stuffs ads? Check, Check. I’m not apologetic about this collection in the least, but even I have to admit that I get a little too excited when I scope an eBay listing for a large lot of these cheap. There isn’t uncontrolled squealing mind you, but there is usually a contented sigh when the auction ends at a reasonable price. Also, though the intent is to pick these up for use with Branded, I will admit that I scrapbook a ton of stuff from these magazines that’ll never make it to the site because I am well aware of the limits of what is considered interesting. No one wants to see me write two thousand words about my nostalgia for the Fresh’n Up fragrance towers or how awesome the airbrushed artwork is on the Hanes Comfort Slacks advertisements. No one. Also, on a similar note, probably the thing I enjoy the most about going out of town on vacation is visiting the local grocery and super stores hunting from products that I don’t have in my neck of the woods. There are probably thousands of picture files on my computer of cans of soda, store brand boxes of cereal, snack products, and candy. I’m pretty sure I’m the antithesis of the “life of the party”…
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