Ronco

Years ago a company named 'Ronco' sold different gadgets in local stores.  The commercials on TV made you think that you could not live without these products.  "It slices, it dices".  When you heard these words, you immediately wanted to buy this item because it made cooking so much easier.  Never mind that you hardly ever cooked anything that needed slicing and dicing.  The person selling it was such a convincer.  And the pictures of the things that you could create were beautiful.

One year for Christmas, I asked for a Rhinestone and Stud Setter.  It looked like a giant stapler that would make your clothes really stand out with the colorful designs that you could make.  The setter looked like you could load it up with studs or rhinestones and just keep pressing down and they would come out like a nail gun.

I had a pair of jeans that I wanted to put the letter 'B' on at the bottom of the leg.   As I got everything out and prepared to start, I realized that you have to put the studs in ONE AT A TIME.  You would put the stud in the setter, press down on the top and the stud would go into whatever you were making and the sharp points would close shut.  Then you put another one in and repeated the process.  Put the stud in the setter, press down, put another one in, line it up, press down, you get the picture.  Pretty soon, I was tired and I did not have the complete letter made.  I finally finished it and decided against putting a 'G' (for my last name) on the other leg. 

I am sure that this company made plenty of money on these things.  Record album vacuums, food choppers, candle making kits-yes I had one of those also, incense making kits, etc...  I do not know anyone who would have had the time or patience to make some of the outfits that were in the commercials. 

I hope you are enjoying your Christmas gifts and that you got what you wanted.  And it is all that you thought it would be.

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