Tobi and infomercials

I'm a sucker for infomercials. I love watching them and I always want what they're selling. Have you seen the latest infomercial for Shamwow? It's some sort of super towel and the guy on the commercial I think once sold me a car. I once bought a George Foreman grill and I think I've used it about twice. Btw, George Foreman was once a heavy weight boxer that a lot of people disliked because he was fighting the great Muhamed Ali. Well, Foreman redefined his whole image and made over $150 million dollars in sales from the grill. So informercial products may seem cheesy, but they're big bucks!

So on to my most recent experience. I think it all stemmed from my grande allusion of never having to iron a shirt. You see, I hate ironing. And one late night, probably after the bar, I saw an informercial about a product called the Tobi. Well one day while I was shopping at Canadian Tire I happened to stumble across one. I immediately grabbed it. I didn't even check the price. Everyone at the checkout line, even seemed happy and excited when they saw what I was purchasing. The lady infront told me she wanted one too. The cost was $99.99.

Well to make a long story short, after unpackaging it for a few hours and assembling, I finished the well polished dvd and began to steam my first shirt. There were a bunch of wrinkles in my shirt and the Tobi seemed to get out the main ones. However, it started to get clumsy. I had trouble holding the shirt as prescribed by the directions, which they even coined as a 'taught and steam'. Well that method was garbage. It literally took me about 15 minutes to steam a single shirt. By that time, the shirt was so damp I had to put it in the dryer. I didn't even get all the wrinkles out.

Well I lugged my Tobi back to Canadian Tire and the gentlemen gave me a quick refund (in cash is how Crappy Tire does). And to solve my ironing woes I decided that I would invest in a professional iron.

So I got a Shark Intelligent Iron. It went for about $90 as well. A lot of money for an iron, but it is pretty bad ass. It's digital and it looks like something that the Terminator brought back from the future to iron his clothes. And it pretty much does what an iron is meant to do.

So the moral of my story is becareful when you watch those tempting infomercials. Some of them might work some of them might not. There really is a risk. In the meantime I don't think I'm done with informercials so I'm about to try a famous excersise and work out one called P90x. According to them, I can get 'absolutely ripped in just 90 days'.

Til then.