Little boxes...

WEDNESDAY 25th of FEBRUARY 2009

Yesterday I finally had time to go to the post office to pick up the parcel that's been waiting for me. Okey, so it did only arrive the day before, but I'd been happily anticipating the arrival of my parcel full of goodies from Strawberrynet.com for almost a week! Yes, I really am that impatient ;0) - but can you blame me?!?

So, barely inside the door I dropped my bag & groceries on the spot and headed straight for the couch to open my parcel. And inside the box I found the items beautifully wrapped in shiny silver paper. Nice. Here's a photo of my favorite products - all ordered from strawberrynet and skipped all the way from Hong Kong. And that in only a week!

The Clinique moisturizer and superbalm (must-have products in my toilet bag), and the Anna Sui eye shaddow (just because I love & need Anna Sui products) I ordered, while the Stila products were complimentary gifts, the lip gloss for being a new customer while I guess they threw in the eye shaddow just because they liked me ;).

The only downside was that thanks to the ridiculously low maximum value for duty free order from abroad (which in Norway is just over 200 kr), I had to pay 100kr in customs and another 100 kr in VAT on the payment of customs - isn't that crazy?!? Still, I know I saved money on ordering online in comparrison to buying it in the shop, so I'm happy.

...and just because I've given this post the same title as a song I often find myself singing, courtesy of the hit TV-show Weeds, here's the lyrics to 'Little Boxes' by Malvina Reynolds:

Little boxes on the hillside, Little boxes made of tickytacky
Little boxes on the hillside, little boxes all the same
There's a green one and a pink one and a blue one and a yellow one
And they're all made out of ticky tacky and they all look just the same.

And the people in the houses all went to the university
Where they were put in boxes and they came out all the same,
And there's doctors and there's lawyers, and business executives
And they're all made out of ticky tacky and they all look just the same.

And they all play on the golf course and drink their martinis dry,
And they all have pretty children and the children go to school

And the children go to summer camp and then to the university

Where they are put in boxes and they come out all the same.

And the boys go into business and marry and raise a family
In boxes made of ticky tacky and they all look just the same.