One of the things that I never fail to remember when asked about my childhood is TV shopping. You may think those infomercials sucked, but my brother and I had a GREAT time just watching those people promote the products that claim to solve all our household worries–from peeling potatoes to cleaning that stubborn mess from a sofa set. They seem to have a solution to everything and that really riveted us.
What would always make us sad at the end of any day is the fact that all these things are just too expensive, especially for us kids who are only used to getting coins from the elders to put in our coin banks. Even when they end with the line “if you call right now, you can get all these for an incredibly low, low price of only two-thousand-nine-hundred-and-ninety-five-pesos”, we know in our young hearts that we can’t get hold of such wonderful treasures. Well, not just yet.
