Shopping in the Boycott Age

I do my best to do the right thing.  Usually, the right thing aligns with my own self-interest.  I lose nothing and I feel good about myself.  It's win/win until it isn't.

We have run out of QTips.

I have tried a variety of off-brand and generic cotton swabs and none have come close to the consistency, shape, durability, flexibility, and overall wonderfulness of the patented QTip.

QTip is manufactured by Elida Beauty , a subsidiary of TIGI Linea Corp.  I've never heard of either of them. In this political climate, that's a good thing.  So far, so good.

I've been fairly successful at weaning myself off Amazon.  It's amazing how deep the stores in my closets run.  Before he neutered the WaPo and threw himself a wedding that had an entire city begging him to just go away, Jeff Bezos was the asnwer to problems like this.  Now, not so much.

I could go to Walmart, but they aren't much more palatable.  I could go to CVS or Walgreens but they are presenting problems when friends show up for "no prescription needed in AZ" COVID shots.

I'll end up at Costco, a worthy concern, and come home with 1,875 individual cotton swabs.  

That's a lot of QTips.... the price of trying to live up to my own expectations.