Affluenza: April 30

These bird trays are so freaking beautiful and mysterious. They're possibly my favorite thing to be featured here in weeks:

http://www.eggmercantile.com/catalog/product_info.php?manufacturers_id=21&products_id=613&osCsid=f7ab7dbf2ed9f1cddd58e5d809e06a04

It's weird that they make a reference to the 80s CBS drama Beauty & The Beast. How random is that?

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Welcome, new readers. This is a feature I run every Wednesday that I call Affluenza. What is it?

Affluenza is a $4500 bean bag chair made of steel:

http://www.mobcollection.com/index.asp?navid=39&layid=58&csid1=6282

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I guess this pepper grinder is okay and all, but what makes it a puzzle?

http://nickpapageorgia.blogspot.com/2008/04/wooden-puzzle-pepper-mill.html

"You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means."

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It's A Log You Idiots, part of a continuing series:

http://www.anthropologie.com/anthro/catalog/productdetail.jsp?id=860022

I'm genuinely shocked that this is the very first time Anthropologie has appeared in IALYI. You'd think they'd own this series so bad I'd have to just put them in a Hall Of Fame and disqualify future entries.

These Holey Stumps don't *quite* fit here--they'd have to be unpainted to meet the requirements--but they're so fucking stupid and ugly that I have to point them out anyway:

http://www.designpublic.com/shop/thout/10728?a_aid=9ac4448f&a_bid=

It's more or less a log you idiots!

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Now HERE'S a Toaster Concept for you...it has an entire microwave oven hanging off the side:

http://us.lge.com/products/model/detail/home%20appliances_cooking_countertop%20microwaves_LTM9000.jhtml

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The Pets Observation Porthole:

http://www.hammacher.com/publish/75098.asp?promo=QSearch&ls=EG#

Affluenza is everything Hammacher Schlemmer has ever sold.

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Even though I'm a huge board game snob who could rattle off at least five obscure mystery games better than Clue--Mystery Of The Abbey, for starters--I couldn't end Affluenza without featuring this deluxe edition of the game:

http://www.restorationhardware.com/rh/catalog/product/product.jsp?productId=prod1392487

Beautiful. Now do Traders of Genoa.