X-mas Xtravaganza #3 - Christmas Crafts!

Around the Christmas season, the dollar bins at Target are a godsend. Usually packed with fun-but-useless things throughout the year, the holidays are when they really shine. Filled with everything from shitty stocking stuffer toys to Christmas candy to decorations. Hell, last year, I bought my tiny desktop tree from there. I'd wager I spend a good fifteen percent of my holiday shopping budget on dumb crap from these bins. Which leads me to my newest subject.

I really couldn't pass up this collection of Christmas-themed crafts once I saw them looking so lonely in the dollar bin. They needed a good home. One that I could provide, I figured. Plus, at a dollar a piece, they were a steal! I've dealt with crafts before on this site, I figured this article would be a snap. How wrong I was.

X-mas Xtravaganza #2 - Air Heads Holiday Sticker Fun!

Air Heads are kind of a classic stocking stuffer. Easy to find, tasty and cheap, you can buy packs of like 50 for a nickel. Maybe not that extreme, but they work. However, they've never really had a place in the whole holiday-themed world. You could buy regular Air Heads, sure, but why do that if they aren't covered in reindeer? Enter the Holiday Sticker Fun pack.

This appeals to me in so many ways. I like the holidays, stickers, AND fun. It's so perfect that the actual Air Heads seem like an afterthought. This is reinforced by the fact that the package only comes with 12 mini bars. This grand trespass would be unacceptable if not for the promise of stickers and fun.

X-mas Xtravaganza #1 - Holiday Clif Bars!

So, I figured I'd kick this season off right with a good old holiday tradition. When I couldn't find that, I went with these gigantic cookie bars.

Clif Bars have been pretty ubiquitous in the heath food aisle for a few years now. With a good portion of your daily nutrients, not to mention enough calories to kill a yak, they're a good meal alternative, probably. I can't really wrap my head around it. They're just big cookies, not that that's a bad thing. They're also the bane of any spelling enthusiast. I keep wanting to type "Cliff". Spellcheck will hate this article.

So this year, they decided to come out with these winter versions of their popular bars. I don't really know why, as nothing about Clif Bars screams "CHRISTMAS" at me. Still, they're here, and I have a very specific disorder that makes me buy and eat anything yuletide-themed. Will I like them? Probably not, but let's find out together, shall we?

Sentient Vending Machine's X-mas Xtravaganza!

 Oh blog. How I've missed you. I promised a week break and it's been 237819721 weeks or something. Forgive me?

Because it's time for

SENTIENT VENDING MACHINE'S X-MAS X-TRAVAGANZA!!

Yes! The series of blog posts that deserved bold, underlined, AND italicized letters in alternating colors! It took forever! I won't do it again! EVER.

So, I've got a ton of great posts lined up for you guys. Christmas specials, food, decorations, and all the love you've come to expect from Sentient Vending Machine. I won't get into detail yet (better to save that for when I actually talk about stuff), but it's gonna be great. All deserving of my favorite holiday season.

For now, though, I've gone ahead and made a special Christmas playlist. I used Spotify for this, because the YouTube one I put together for Halloween didn't really pan out right. Namely, you couldn't watch most of the videos inside the playlist, which made it a little difficult. With Spotify, you'll just have to make an account and download the player. I realize this is a little cumbersome, but it's well worth it. I'm nothing if not  inconvenient.

So, here's the link to the open playlist. Hopefully it'll work for you, otherwise, this has all been for nothing. Please work. PLEASE WORK.

I'll be back in a few days (really!) with my first REAL Christmas post!

IT'S COMING