Just when you think you’ve heard it all, someone always surprises you with something new and bizarre.
Two things fell into that category for me this week. The first had to do with Walmart.
As I’m sure you know, Walmart is known as a one-stop shop, meaning you can everything you need with a trip to Walmart.
And now you really can get everything you need —and then some.
Walmart is now selling caskets online. Yes, you read that right, coffins.
Now being the future wife of a funeral director, I couldn’t help but laugh at this one.
I’m just thankful they’re selling them online only. Can you imagine walking through the store and here comes someone walking straight towards you with a coffin sticking out of a shopping cart?
Of course, there are no reviews of the caskets online, which is probably a good sign.
The second “boggle your mind” thing I came across this week is a Web site called the Poor Bride. I’m not even going to repeat the exact address because I don’t want to give this girl anymore publicity than she’s already received.
Basically this girl set up a site solely for receiving donations for her wedding.
She has a big long story on the home page about how she was horribly treated at her job and fired when she tried to retaliate. She’s asking for money and services.
She’s already received her wedding dress, bridesmaids and flower girl dresses, a cake, photography, tuxedos and more.
Now here is the clicker for me — she still wants more!
On a radio interview she talked about wanting to go to Hawaii but no one’s giving them anything for that yet.
On the thank you page she acknowledges that some people don’t like her site so I’m clearly not the first person to be thinking this. She says “When we started the site about a month ago we were not expecting so many people to be so generous. We were not specifically asking for money or people to donate money, we were just trying something and seeing how it would turn out.”
Right — there’s just a huge donate button on the front page and a huge story begging for stuff. How is that not asking for money?
Honestly, I wish I would have thought of this first! It’d be nice to have a completely free wedding.
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