The Ultimate Luxury: Paying for Couture Saliva
Saturday, June 23, 2007Never let it be said that we don’t know how to laugh at others ourselves. We love luxury and pampering and clearly require it on our family vacations, but we do acknowledge that there are some products/ideas out there that are just a tad over the top. And yet, people pay for them.
Momspit would be exactly one of those products. We’re not even 100% sure that it’s for real – you’d think that if someone was marketing a no-rinse cleaner and asking $10 for 2 ounces, that they’d come up with a slightly more appealing name than Momspit. Yes, desperate mothers everywhere without wipes or a bathroom or a tissue handy have resorted to wiping that smudge/eye goop/whatever with a finger that is wet – yes, with our saliva. Having done so several times, however, does not mean we want to purchase products that remind us. Momspit, however, seems to think that moms everywhere will gobble up their Universal No-Rinse Cleaner, which is supposedly even better than hand sanitizer because you can use it on your child’s face to clean up those chocolate messes and ketchup streaks. It comes in refreshing scents of fig + green tea and lemon + white tea, and for those sensitive noses, unscented.
We have yet to try it out, and probably won’t unless they send us some for free. We love our kids enough to wipe their faces with our spit if necessary. But we’re not so sure about paying for some other mom’s spit – even though this product could actually be so helpful on a plane, train or automobile. Yeah, we know it’s not really spit. So don’t call it spit. There’s nothing remotely luxurious about spit. And therefore we don’t want to pay for it.
[via Dadsmacker]
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July 5th, 2007 at 1:44 pm
Dear Leian,
I would be very pleased to send you some MomSpit samples to test. It works well. I hope you will consider trying it out.
Just this past Sunday, on my children’s first trip to NYC, we were sitting on the stairs at the Museum of Natural History enjoying popsicles before jumping into a cab to our next destination. We were in the cab and on our way when my daughter exclaimed her hands were all sticky and a bit orange. I reached into my purse and passed her the MomSpit mini (lemon & white tea this time), and with a drop of mousse and a little rubbing her hands were clean and she was happy.
Best regards,
Kim Dixon
Co-founder and Chief Executive Mom
MomSpit – Inspired by the original