I Owe Everything to Little Chocolate Donuts

Sure. You can serve Ritz crackers in this charmingly tacky faux crystal plastic tray. No need to risk lead poisoning.

Why would you if you could have little chocolate donuts instead?

If you were alive and aware in the '70s, your brain jumps to John Belushi every time you see a little chocolate donut.

Who can forget the image of John Belushi smoking a cigarette while eating a little chocolate donut?

Little Chocolate Donuts. They taste good, and they've got the sugar I need to get me going in the morning. That's why Little Chocolate Donuts have been on my training table since I was a kid.

I think the perfect proportion of hydogenated fat to chocolate wax is the secret to their dizzying deliciousness.

(See John Belushi in action on SNL: 
http://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/little-chocolate-donuts/280260)

Ugly Never Wears Out

This really retro Home Interiors plastic wall décor reminds me of a couch I rescued in 1979.

The green-rust-brown-beige busy floral fabric was an industrial strength petroleum-based woven vinylly substance that appeared to be indestructible.

The horrible thing had begun its life with a family in a Texas living room, was replaced by something attractive and moved to their basement, migrated to the porch and came to rest in my apartment on the way to the dump.

I moved it to Kansas City where it lived for seven more years until I gave it away and it headed east to St. Louis. It was still in great shape.

Ugly never wears out.