As seen on TV infomercials

So Allyson has an addiction to infomercials. She will sit for hours watching them and then beg me to buy whatever the product is. Last month she spent 45 minutes watching an infomercial on the Ninja blender. She just thought we had to have it. She could even site reasons it was better than the blender we have now. In the end I made her turn it off and would not buy it. A couple of days later while we were in BJs she spotted one and again persisted about the blender. "Look mom it's just like the one on TV!" It was a nice one and was about half the price of the TV version so I caved in and bought it. She was ecstatic.

Today while I was at work she tormented Ansley with an infomercial on vacuum cleaners. She was totally engrossed while Ansley begged her to change the channel. Jerry does the same thing, so it must be genetic. All we could do was laugh as she admitted to it and told me about how "cool" the vacuum cleaner was. This in itself was funny enough but after a short run today I was doing some crunches when I hear her little voice say, "You shouldn't do those mom, they don't work." What doesn't work Ally? "Those things you are doing. You need the thing you put your knees and go like this (she gives me a demo) Those just hurt your back." And where did you learn this Ally? "I saw it on TV, it makes your body look good" I laughed so hard I almost cried.

As for now there will be no more infomercials at the Rice house. In fact she may need a little infomercial AA!