Sticky Stickers

One thing that really drives me nuts is stickers on a new consumer product. We don’t have a lot of money. We’re trying to make a nice nest for our little fledgling, who will arrive in a few weeks. We bought this rocker stand for our bassinette. It is likely made by slaves in China. I’m sorry. It’s what we could afford.

In any case, somebody in Canada where the thing is packaged up and labelled decided it was a good idea to put a sticker on one of the rockers telling us a bunch of completely irrelevant stuff. Not a fun sticker. A completely banal and ugly sticker. A far too sticky sticker that shredded itself as I pulled. The sticker took me a full twenty minutes of my now considerable shorter life to remove.

Why, oh, why do they put such sticky stickers on new items? That really bugs me.