How LOW Will Komen GO?: My Entry

I found this little grooming tool at Bed, Bath & Beyond the other day, in a display of pink products grouped under a banner (pink, of course) that read: "support pink!"

It was tough to choose among the array of TRIVIAL pink products on sale at BB&B--who designed the pink-ribbon tweezers, for example? Does the company that makes those tweezers really think that a woman like me--living with incurable, metastatic breast cancer--is going to feel better about her cancer, or about life in general, if she tweezes her eyebrows (even assuming she HAS eyebrows) with a pink-ribbon grooming product?

I poked around among pink-ribbon sleep masks, the pink "Flashing Glitter Ducks," and lots more until I found the pink-ribbon "Ped Egg."

This little gadget, $9.99, "as seen on TV," is a tool to shave calluses and rough skin off of female feet. 

(Note: Women in cancer treatment should ask their doctors before they start cutting on their feet with this or any other tool.)

At first I thought the makers of this product had slapped a pink ribbon on it but were not donating ANY money to any breast cancer organization--which does happen--but in very very small print on the back of the package is the message: "This limited edition pink version was designed to help raise money for The Breast Cancer Research Foundation" (an organization I have never had any contact with. I plan to look them up).

Then further down, in even smaller type, is text that says that the manufacturer is donating $50,000 to the Breast Cancer Research Foundation.

I'm underwhelmed. 

My cancer treatment will cost almost $300,000 this year. That's one woman, for one year. More than 200,000 American women, and about 2,000 men, will be diagnosed with breast cancer this year. 

I'll be sending BB&B postcards telling them how I feel. And I won't be shopping there in the future. This pink PedEgg will be added to my "Wall of Shame," right next to the pink Campbell's soup and the pink-ribbon soda crackers.

See: 

The Battle for October: A Contest

How LOW Will Komen GO? Our First Entry

@ Jeanne Sather 2008.

Comments

[anita]

I saw that at Bartells (not the pink version) and ran screaming. It looks like the microplane grater that I already use to shred my fingertips!

[Debutaunt]

CREEPY! No one should use one of those. And if you get a pedicure, you should NEVER let anyone use anything that remotely resembles that tool on your feet.

It's called lotion, people. Use it daily and you won't get scaly!

I'm on pink overload. Next year, lets go to Iceland or something the entire month of October.