Our Furry Friend and His Fake Fur Jacket

Recently, I have found myself in Target wandering around. I always start off with a specific need of some sort be it toothpaste, notecards, big post-it notes for school. However, more often than not a "quick-trip" to Target that should really only take about 20 minutes including travel time becomes an adventure of a much greater magnitude.

I don't know about you all, but I don't actually love shopping at larger stores. Honestly, I get slightly overwhelmed by the size and the ground that I need to cover. Deep down, I know that I don't actually have to cover all of the given ground, but somehow I feel like I will forget about something if I don't look through everything first. My strategy in almost any store big or small is this. Go in the store. Get a cart or a basket or not. Make it a goal to make a loop around the perimeter. Better yet, go up and down every or almost every isle while going around the loop around the store. No wonder it takes me such a long time - sheesh.

Also another shopping strategy of mine: If I see something that was not on my list, but I want to think about for a little while, I hold onto it for the remainder of the looping around the store. 9 times out of 10, I later convince myself that I really don't need that item, and I usually put it back where I found it at the end, feeling very proud of myself for not being suckered into buying it after all.

That brings me to the dollar section of Target. Oh boy, I can be stuck there for a while. Mostly, I just look at all of the things and imagine what creative and crafty was that I can use some of these items to do or create something cool. But then I realize that I probably wouldn't have enough time to do something with it anyway, and it would probably just end up in a corner collecting dust for a while until I almost totally forget about it altogether.

A few weeks ago, I was in the dollar section at Target and I found a black warm up/jacket vest with faux white fur around the collar. I pictured coming home and dressing up our dear Oliver in it, seeing what his reaction would be with this stylish piece. This time, I couldn't resist.

I brought home the jacket for Oliver and Jed and I had ourselves a few chuckles watching Oliver try to get around and act relaxed. Apparently, he would rather go sans clothes than with. Considering he is a cat and has a lovely coat already, I don't blame him.




Needless to say after no more than 10 minutes, Oliver had had enough, and we took the jacket off of him and continued to get more chuckles from him as he began to attack the jacket and walk around with it in his mouth like a prized toy. Silly guy! We also woke up the next morning and amazingly the jacket had made it up the stairs and was waiting for us when we opened the door.


Oliver has since reluctantly modeled the jacket on a few other occasions, and after all this, I have to say that that day wandering around Target was probably about the best unintentional find and purchase I had in a while. Thanks Target for the cheap and easy entertainment that you provided for our household. Now, if you don't mind, I will probably have to keep myself out of your doors for a bit in order to avoid random wandering for a while.