Man, do I love Target. I doesn't matter if you walk into that store for just a greeting card; you end up leaving with three throw pillows, Easter candy, curtain rods, a sweater, and two Burt's Bees lip-glosses. Don't pretend like I'm the only one this happens to, either. I am not alone in this. But the clearance shelves -oh boy- the clearance shelves are my jam! So here I am minding my own business, whistling my way through the clearance section, when I come across this monstrosity... Full stop.
The horror. The rage. The abject confusion. Why? Just... why? I wanted to buy every single color just so I could rearrange them all into separate jars by coloring utensil type instead of color. What kind of project could possibly necessitate eight separate coloring devices in the same shade but literally none in any other shades? Besides, who wants to be the owner of one lonely colored pencil instead of a set of them? "Quick! Somebody get me a yellow highlighter, a yellow colored pencil, a yellow window marker, and yellow chalk RIGHT NOW! Get the h*** outta here green, I said yellow!" - Said no one, ever
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Adrienne
3/26/2016 09:21:16 pm
Well, Picasso did have a blue period!
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I wonder if they sold all the reds, and greens, and blues, and oranges, and just got left with this one yellow one? They had to have them in other colors. I laughed at your comment about coming out of Target with bunches of stuff. I never get out of there for less than $100!
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Anne Marie
3/26/2016 10:37:31 pm
They had these in purple, blue, and yellow at my local Target too. I don't get them either! I have no idea why anyone would buy this!
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3/26/2016 11:50:25 pm
I scratch my head about lots of products, and that's just weird. I love yellow and can see myself w/ different yellow tones all over a book I'm annotating. And there's that Coldplay song "Yellow." I think there's a line in it that says, "It was all yellow," but I can't remember the antecedent for "it"!
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3/27/2016 02:53:35 am
You're right - no one would want just one color of all these different types, so I guess this is why it lasted in the store to make it to the clearance aisle. I'm sure their marketing team realized this one was a big fail!
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3/27/2016 06:35:13 am
I love that you thought to write about this in such a colorful way.
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3/27/2016 07:46:58 am
Great post and so honest, fresh and fun. I love Kohls too lol
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3/28/2016 05:34:46 pm
I too am a frequent flyer in the dollar bins and clearance section. But that is something I would happily leave behind. I guess if you're all about a less common color, like teal, I could see getting markers, highlighters, etc. But yellow? Very strange!
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