Pandora
@sallypup (57695)
Centralia, Washington
July 25, 2016 11:42am CST
I settle into my chair, stare at the screen. For only a few bucks I can have a beauty box sent to me. Each and every month.
When I was a girl most of the horses in the story books were called Beauty. Will a horse appear in my mailbox in maybe two weeks? Will she be content there or will she kick and scream and bite the mail woman?
Or maybe the company that sells the womanly stuff assumes that my ego is so low that I can't find a scrap of beauty without them?
Very like Pandora's box: who knows what would pop out of my mail box or the UPS van if I were to send them green backs?
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@Jessicalynnt (50525)
• Centralia, Missouri
25 Jul 16
lol, we used to have a subscription box, it was kinda fun, like getting gifts in the mail each month, we cancelled it though, needed to be better with our monies
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@Jessicalynnt (50525)
• Centralia, Missouri
26 Jul 16
@sallypup crowdtap, those samples are free, all they want is you to review them and finish a mission online, no costs for you.
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@sallypup (57695)
• Centralia, Washington
26 Jul 16
@Jessicalynnt I tried that site and hated it. I could not make them happy.
@sallypup (57695)
• Centralia, Washington
25 Jul 16
@Jessicalynnt Your comment reminds me of all the sample boxes that supposedly don't cost. I've yet to find one that didn't want something from me.
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@marguicha (215134)
• Chile
25 Jul 16
There is such a Pandora box here too. I was stupid enough as to buy once some leggins that were supposed to keep my tummy tucked in. One size fits all. One size didn´t fit at all.
There they are. My daughters don´t like them. But now they send me their mermaid songs via email offering me machines that will help me fit into those slender thingies.
Better not open the Pandora box. Hope is not enough.
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@sallypup (57695)
• Centralia, Washington
25 Jul 16
@marguicha That's terrible and I am sorry. A disaster! Is there a homeless shelter that you could donate the tights to?
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@marguicha (215134)
• Chile
25 Jul 16
@sallypup I should do that. One of the thing I am planning to do now is to give away the rest of my mother´s clothes and some of mine.
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@sallypup (57695)
• Centralia, Washington
25 Jul 16
@marguicha I HATE spandex type clothes. Sure not going on this body that I live with daily. Give those tights away. You will be free!!
@Stitch95 (178)
• United Kingdom
25 Jul 16
I mean, a doubt a horse would be in the box. How would they get the poor thing in there in the first place? How big is this box? For that matter, how bit is your malbox that you'd be able to fit a horse in there? :')
But on a more serious note, those kinds of boxes generally include bad quality stuff if they're 'mystery boxes' that have no description. If it's a service that says "this box will include x out of the y options" then that's a little better, because you know what you MIGHT get, but it still lets you have that little bit of a surprise
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@sallypup (57695)
• Centralia, Washington
25 Jul 16
@Stitch95 I was not in the mood to write a serious piece on the weather or my breakfast or my health so Pandora's horse popped out. You are correct: the horse would have cause to call the sheriff on me if I were to attempt to stick him or her in my little mailbox.
@JamesHxstatic (29233)
• Eugene, Oregon
26 Jul 16
Hmmm, their idea of beauty should be spelled out.
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@Rohvannyn (3098)
• United States
27 Jul 16
I'm not much for cosmetics either. I wouldn't mind one of the geek boxes that has all kinds of anime and comic book memorabilia in them. But I don't need more useless stuff.
