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  • Flammable Robes Keep Killing People — Recall Reissued

    Everyone in the market for a robe wants to be kept warm, but having that robe catch on fire and kill you is quite a bit over the line. Such a foible was discovered in Blair women's chenille robes, so Blair and the Consumer Product Safety...

    11:59 AM on Fri Jun 12 2009, by Phil Villarreal, 4,651 views, 35 comments

  • Blair Sued For $30 Million Over Bath Robe Death

    Among the nine people who have died from injuries sustained after their chenille bath robes caught fire was 80-year-old Atwilda Brown. Now her family has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the company that sold (and twice recalled) the robes,...

    5:33 PM on Thu Oct 29 2009, by Chris Walters, 7,582 views, 101 comments

  • Blair Recalls More Flammable Clothing After Yet Another Fire

    "Consumers Urged to Stop Use of Flammable Wearing Apparel," says the warning on the Consumer Product Safety Commission Web site. You would think so, wouldn't you? But Blair, the catalog where your grandmother probably gets all of her clothes, has...

    12:30 PM on Fri Oct 23 2009, by Laura Northrup, 3,301 views, 35 comments

  • I'm So Out Of Here

    Today's my last day at Consumerist. I've accepted a job at Consumers Union, and I expect it will demand more of my time than I've devoted to law school or bumming around New Orleans for the summer. Hopefully I'll be back to guest post once in a...

    11:00 AM on Fri Aug 1 2008, by Alex Chasick, 3,078 views, 37 comments

  • Recalls: Roost Birch Bark Wrapped Candles (fire, probably not a good idea to put a candle inside a flammable container), Bon-Ton Children's Bath Robes (burn), Coffee Masters Chipper With Coffee Biscotti (undeclared protein derived from milk, eggs,...

    1:10 PM on Thu Nov 15 2007, by Ben Popken, 226 views, 6 comments

  • Morning Deals

    [Roses] Sam's Club: 100 Red roses for $90.88[Robes] Blair: Men's Flannel Robes $3.99 or $4.99[Textbook] MotionMountain: Free Physics ebook (PDF)Highlights From Buxr[Coffee] Panera Bread: Free Coffee at Panera Bread Today Only[Camera] Adorama:...

    10:43 AM on Wed Jan 28 2009, by Ben Popken, 1,440 views, 13 comments

  • Morning Deals

    Brecks: 2 Perrenial and Bulb Collection grabbags, shipped for $35.95 ($200 catalog value)Bloomingdale's: Vera Wang Lingerie Chenille Logo Robe for $25.99 (S and XL only)Amazon: Gillette 3 Venus Embrace Cartridge 8-Count for ~$12/box with coupon...

    8:53 AM on Tue Apr 29 2008, by Ben Popken, 746 views, 6 comments

  • If Your Dog Is Lonely, Buy Him A Sex Doll

    It's not enough to drape your best friend in his own custom-made Snuggie. After all, a robe alone doesn't keep away the haven't-had-sex-in-years blues—you need ice cream for that, and dogs shouldn't eat ice cream. Instead, you can pamper him...

    10:30 AM on Wed Aug 5 2009, by Chris Walters, 7,075 views, 33 comments

  • AOL User 927 Illuminated

    Aroused by the thought of juicy big piles of AOL user search data? Consumerist does the wading for you and finds a delightful little item, AOL User 927.

    11:24 AM on Mon Aug 7 2006, by Ben Popken, 33,155 views, 19 comments

  • Closed-Minded Retailer Tesco Bans Jedi Religious Garb

    The persecution never ends for the Jedi, does it? First, they were nearly all murdered by one of their own. Then, just when they've built a presence on modern Earth, a grocery store in Wales tells a practicing Jedi that he can't wear the hood of...

    5:30 PM on Sun Sep 20 2009, by Laura Northrup, 12,743 views, 147 comments