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Survey Says: If You're Not Eating Cat Food Tonight, You're Lucky

Survey Says: If You're Not Eating Cat Food Tonight, You're Lucky

A new survey from employment site CareerBuilder has some cheery news: About 61% of employees live paycheck-to-paycheck, and 21% of workers are stealing from their retirement funds to make ends meet. And these are the lucky folks who still have jobs.

The 10 Worst Toys For 2007

The 10 Worst Toys For 2007

Boston-based World Against Toys Causing Harm Inc., or W.A.T.C.H., has announced its top-10 list of the worst toys you can buy kids this Christmas. This is a rather pointless year for a list like this, considering the massive expansion of the Unsafe Toy Industry; in fact, the first item on their list was recalled back in October for lead paint. Still, there are some fun discoveries on the list, like “Sticky Stones,” small piles of easy-to-eat magnets, and the “Spider Man 3 New Goblin Sword,” because its “spring-loaded blade expands to more than 3 feet long, creating the potential for facial injuries.” If they could just combine the Goblin Sword with the Oozinator, we’d have a Dateline special on our hands.

10 Worst Toys of 2006

10 Worst Toys of 2006

The W.A.T.C.H. List of the 10 worst toys of 2006 is out! This list claims to feature toys that have the potential to “cause childhood injuries, or even death.” What evil toys made the list this year? The insanely popular skate shoe “Heelys” come with the following warning, “There is no way to heel and/or grind without running the risk of SERIOUS BODILY HARM, including head injury, spinal injury, or even death” Death! Jeepers.

Big Watch Mocked

Big Watch Mocked

This gaudy watch struck Copyranter ‘s eye. After he got the blood out, he wrote:

Morning Deals Round Up

• Having just received a very nice set of DeWalt tools for our birthday, we have no need of Amazon’s Two-Day Tool Sale. We remain intrigued, however, by a coupon code that works just for ladders: $50 off $250 code LADDER50 and $25 off $125 code LADDER23.