My Daughter's Great Find

@celticeagle (189838)
Boise, Idaho
March 14, 2017 9:32am CST
My daughter loves to shop at the dollar store. She is always bringing something cute home for me. It may be a treat like the spearmint jelly candies she found or the little shamrock necklace that lights up. Always something. Well, this last time she found a reacher/grabber thing for me. I sleep on a mattress on the floor and getting up is difficult with my arthritic hip and recently dislocated shoulder. So, she got me this thing (that is about a foot long and has a grabber on the end) so I can grab things off my night stand or chair where my clothes are and the phone. The phone is in a tray, it's a landline Vtech phone. But the way my room is set up the cable modem(where the phone has to be connected) is half way across the room. The line of the phone doesn't reach very far. So this reacher/grabber works great. I can grab the phone and bring over to me where before I had to turn clear around and reach as far as I could to get the phone. Even putting the phone at six rings I can't get it to me in time to answer when my public calls to speak to me. Haha So this new gizmo is just great!
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@BelleStarr (61463)
• United States
14 Mar 17
My mother had one of those to gets things out of her upper cupboards, a very handy gadget.
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@celticeagle (189838)
• Boise, Idaho
14 Mar 17
I used to use my tongs for that.
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@celticeagle (189838)
• Boise, Idaho
14 Mar 17
@BelleStarr .....I used to be rather limber. If I could get to the shelf I just needed something to pull it forward.
@BelleStarr (61463)
• United States
14 Mar 17
@celticeagle My mom is not quite five feet tall so she needed a little more than tongs.
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@Happy2BeMe (99353)
• Canada
14 Mar 17
My mom has one of those and she loved it. It came in handy many times. That is a great little gadget and I am sure that you will get plenty of use out of it.
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@celticeagle (189838)
• Boise, Idaho
14 Mar 17
I have already.
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@Happy2BeMe (99353)
• Canada
14 Mar 17
@celticeagle That is great!
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• Pamplona, Spain
14 Mar 17
Could do with one of those things myself sometimes. Glad she found you what you liked.
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@celticeagle (189838)
• Boise, Idaho
14 Mar 17
Didn't even know I'd like it til I needed it.
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@celticeagle (189838)
• Boise, Idaho
14 Mar 17
@lovinangelsinstead21 .....Yes, and what you might use them for.
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• Pamplona, Spain
14 Mar 17
@celticeagle Very surprising the ideas you can come up with in those kind of Shops as well.
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• Valdosta, Georgia
14 Mar 17
That's great, it sounds like a great help for you. =)
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@celticeagle (189838)
• Boise, Idaho
14 Mar 17
It sure is. I'm glad to have it.
• United States
14 Mar 17
That is great that Cam found that for you..what a great finder of things she is! Yes, that will do nicely my friend for reaching. I love ideas like that, and how special that she thought of you. Enjoy it Hope it makes things easier.
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@celticeagle (189838)
• Boise, Idaho
14 Mar 17
It really does. I usually just keep the phone by me if I know a call will be coming.
@Jessicalynnt (50523)
• Centralia, Missouri
16 Mar 17
there are all kinds of random cool things at Dollar Tree and other actual Dollar item stores!
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@celticeagle (189838)
• Boise, Idaho
17 Mar 17
Yes, and my daughter loves to check them out.
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@celticeagle (189838)
• Boise, Idaho
19 Mar 17
@Jessicalynnt ......Could be but berries are better fresh.
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• Centralia, Missouri
18 Mar 17
@celticeagle if they have a frozen section, they prob have frozen berries btw
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@Nawsheen (28761)
• Mauritius
14 Mar 17
She got you something useful. That's great.
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@celticeagle (189838)
• Boise, Idaho
14 Mar 17
Yes, it is.
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@allknowing (153530)
• India
15 Mar 17
As long as it does not reduce the kind of exercise a senior should do to keep them agile such a facility is truly useful.
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@celticeagle (189838)
• Boise, Idaho
15 Mar 17
I suppose.
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• United States
14 Mar 17
That's a wonderful little gadget your daughter got for you. The dollar store has some great things doesn't it
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@celticeagle (189838)
• Boise, Idaho
14 Mar 17
Yes, she enjoys shopping there.
14 Mar 17
That's very nice.
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@celticeagle (189838)
• Boise, Idaho
14 Mar 17
Yes, it is.
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