I am a labelwhore - at least when it comes to groceries and toiletries. I simply don't do brandless, generic products. I know that the CVS ibuprofen is the same as Advil. Doesn't matter. There is something so ridiculously comforting about the actual word "Advil" along with the blue background and the yellow type that I can't explain. I am not kidding: the one time I walked into Aldi's and saw that EVERY SINGLE item they carried in the store was their in-house brand, I started to hyperventilate and break out into hives.
I am an also an aesthete which means I like for things to be pretty. For example: I don't buy the plain white paper towels. I buy designer prints. Bounty of course. And not just any old print but the pretty ones that I think will look good in my kitchen.
So yeah. It's possible I have issues.
Anyways, I use tissues by the bucketload. I use them for blowing my nose, blotting my lipstick, smushing small spiders and picking up the copious amounts of hair I shed in the bathroom. I usually have at least 4 boxes in my wee little house at all times.
But here's the problem.
As a labelwhore, I will only buy Kleenex or Puff's. As an aesthete, I require that the boxes be pretty and that they coordinate with the overall decor of the room they are in. As a resident of Smalltown, USA I am pretty much screwed because our local Wally World and grocery stores only carry "pretty" boxes in their generic store brands which I won't buy on account of they're being generic, and the selection of Kleenex and Puff's is all plain or ugly boxes. Which leaves me in something of a quandary.
It also leaves me without tissues at the moment since I really and truly cannot stand to buy and look at an ugly box of tissues.
You don't have to say it. I already know.
I'm trying not to laugh, i really am. I may not be succeeding, though.