We Have That at Home
A story about side projects.
This usually happens to BW more than me but what usually happens is she will come out of her home office all excited about the fact that she’s going to write a paper on the history of the Paraguayan Turtle in in 1700’s - or some topic of the like.
I try to be the encouraging husband, I do. But I’m not feeling it when she tells me about her projects - and that’s okay — everybody marches to their own drum and interests are individual.
Summary: Don’t expect me to get to excited about really old turtles.
The door swings both ways. I have been working on a little project too and to BW she’s about interested in what I’m creating about the same as I love her turtle projects
This means WE ARE MADE FOR EACH OTHER.
But this also means I don’t have anybody to share my creations with but then I realized that I can write about my project here on my very important newsletter - and it’s okay if you don’t care too because we’re good with rejection here - also most of you aren’t paying for this - today’s lesson: you get what you pay for.
Anyway…let me introduce my latest website creation :
Allow me explain how this came to be - as we’re apt to do here, the child likes to get on my phone with me and surf Amazon and shop.
The trouble with Amazon is that a lot of the stuff is crap. She’s still waiting for the pen for her tablet that she’ll never get because she’ll lose it in 22 minutes. Then the other day she wanted bluetooth headphones.
She thought she was getting some pink ones with lights she saw on Amazon. The look on her face when I handed her the headphones we already had at home (which are perfectly fine by the way) was not good.
I got to thinking - there should be a site that isn’t just a shill or crappy “review” site, but what if there was a site that actually researched what stuff there is on Amazon that’s actually good and getting good reviews - and good enough to warrant a replacement of the stuff we have at home already.
Thus, a star website was born: Here’s the link again in case you forgot, so you can check it out yourself.
All review sites are the same: product intro, “review” and a lot of buy it now buttons for you to click. What if instead of a review - there’s ..research?
I’ve designed the site as if the child was texting dear old Dad about whatever the item is they have to have - in this example it’s a nintendo switch:
The research happens and I look at the pros/cons and even offer an alternative at a lower price. Sometimes it’s a flat out “NO” and don’t buy this. Because life is hard and NO’s happen in this world.
Turns out - this particular item is actually worth it.
I also offer alternatives that are cheaper because we all can’t afford a switch. Heck I’m still ubering to pay off the one the child has now.
All products are not great , so the ones I find get a rating: YES/MEH or NO - because a lot of crap on Amazon is well, crap. I just do the legwork to check the reviews and figure out whether it’s worth it or not and pass on my thoughts and suggestions.
I have had so much fun making this you guys - BW thinks I am nuts, so that means she’s probably right but I had a lot of fun and BW watched her shows on TV without interruption so she should be glad I am home and entertaining myself.
Of course, the goal is to make a few bucks here on commissions from Amazon sales - whether that will happen is yet to be determined but it doesn’t cost much to run and because I’m a lazy husband as well as tidy - I created a system so this all happens automatically with new stuff listed every day on the site without my intervention.
So you have choices - visit my site or my next post will be about really old turtles.
And you really don’t want to write about old turtles. Trust me on this one.
Always Shopping and Scheming and Dreaming of Blue Turtles,
TH and Co.
Fantastic concept! Do it! I think “Hey Dad” would be a fun title.