 very sturdy. The only real downer was that the included "food" items were a little cheap looking. Even the boxes seemed a bit flimsy although they were realistic. This didn't really bother my daughter and she had a blast playing with her shopping cart and groceries. Considering the relatively low price this is a great toy that most young kids will enjoy.
This is a very simple little toy shopping cart that is easy and fast to put together. The material is plastic that is quite soft and that probably explains why some reviewers feel that it is of "cheap" quality and a poor value. I do not exactly agree with that assessment (perhaps because my expectations were not that high in the first place.).I feel like it is of adequate quality for what it is and what it is supposed to be. This, like many toys of this type, is not one that will be endlessly played with for a long time. It is more of a "phase" type of plaything, for when your little girl wants to go grocery shopping "just like mommy". For this, it is perfectly sufficient, and at the current $25 price point does not seem to be that bad of value for what you are getting, which is a cart that pushes and rolls along with a decent selection of pretend groceries to play with.
Fun, classic toy for little gals AND boys.
I let my four year old twin niece and nephew try out this shopping cart toy.Likes:*Fairly simple to assemble by parent or guardian (uncle/me).*Sturdy, mid quality plastics appear capable of withstanding rough play by kids.*Plastic cart handle height is appropriate for kids 3 and older.*Includes 24 fun plastic play food items.*Shopping cart toy helps nurture little kids' imaginations and teaches them some basic skills of shopping for groceries when they grow up.*My niece and nephew alternated being the shopper and the cashier so both can experience the thrill of shopping and paying for groceries.
It was a hit as a gift to my friend's daughter who is a toddler. She absolutely loved playing with it and from the looks of it, will be using it for sometime.The quality of the plastic is however a turn off. I hope it lasts long enough for the kid to exhaust all possibilities of having fun with it.I can't complaint about the price point. For $25, it wasn't a bad deal.
We have a grandson who wants to do whatever his parents are doing. He loves this shopping cart! He pushes it along and picks the play groceries from the shelf just like mommy and daddy.It was easy to put together, has a wonderful collection of colorful groceries, and just plain fun for children. It can also be used for carrying other toys, since it is a cart, and other imaginative games. Great for people who don't take children's toys too seriously.If you are looking for fun shopping experience for any small boy or girl, this is an excellent toy to get!Last week marked one of the highlights of my career as top dog at Three Minute Egg®. Somebody compared me to Steve Jobs! It’s not because we both have our own planes and we certainly don’t occupy the same tax-bracket, but we did both built international companies out of nothing, and we share a rather unquenchable thirst for perfection and attention to detail. I will admit that I hope to be more well-liked.
It all started innocently enough during the first few minutes of a long-awaited visit to my cousins’ house in Nashville, TN. Ben Austen is one of my only two first cousins (along with his brother, Jake) and we have always had a special bond. Both of them blow me away with their intelligence and capacity for information. My brand of wisdom doesn’t score as well in debates. My family (girlfriend and daughter) and I had finally made it to Nashville to visit Ben and his wife who have kids Sula’s age (the boy, Jonah, born 5 days prior, would have also been named Sula had he popped out a little differently – our daughter is named after my late grandmother, Sulamith Austen, whom Ben, Jake and I all share). I was about halfway through the best-selling Steve Jobs biography and noticed it sitting on Ben’s dining room table. When I asked if he was reading it, a conversation started, the jewels of which I was unaware would resurface some months later in print. Ben is a fast reader and in a couple of days had already surpassed the number of pages I’d be slogging over for months. I am a painfully slow reader and the book is about 600 pages long — representing a rather sizable investment of my time and a lot of calories burned carrying it around. He had to be careful not to spoil the plot. But we got to talking, and as a serial entrepreneur I quickly became the subject in an interview I didn’t know was happening.
Ben has always been good at asking people questions and he’s genuinely interested in the answers. He has a very disarming way of encouraging candor. Not all of it ends up in ink. I have long thought of the Three Minute Egg® as the iPhone of yoga props because it is easy to use, infinitely versatile, and deliberately stylish. (I even conceptualized an ad campaign to that effect, but figured it wouldn’t sit well with Apple.) But the analogy means something more to me. I have always been an Apple user and I’ve often said it would be a different, better and friendlier world if Apple hadn’t lost the war to PC. Apple products embody and inspire creativity, beauty and usability — all qualities I like to think dwell in my Egg. While I don’t throw as many tantrums as Steve Jobs, I do my fair share of driving the people who work for me insane because I’m seldom satisfied and I invariably feel we could all do better. I had the same reputation when I built furniture. Transferring my intolerance for imperfection into the flawed nature of mass-production has been challenging for all involved, but I’d like to think my customers appreciate the extra effort and in the end, they’re the real reason I’m here. Ben doesn’t refer to me by name in the article, because anything that might be construed as promotion would have undermined the sincerity of his intent. But he did like my bit about dharma, and that is where I feel Jobs and I find common ground.
One’s dharma can be thought of as their life’s work and when one’s karma (destiny) aligns with lila (the play of the universe), they are said to spontaneously start living their dharma. If there’s such a thing as living one’s dharma, I feel like I’m living mine through these Eggs. So many parts of who I am, what I’ve learned, how I’ve been hurt and resources I sought to heal, joined forces to help me create the Egg. I have had to call on every nook and cranny of my being to help it succeed and I’m proud to say the endeavor is headed in the right direction. 3ME is a long way from becoming the world’s most valuable company, but that isn’t really my aim. Every day brings me closer to my goal of adding value to the world through my own innovation and I have a lot of people to thank for getting me this far. I know I’ll be relying on them and others as this journey continues. Thank you, Steve, for being an inspiration and a great teacher. I read your biography, I believe both the good and the bad, and I am forever grateful, as I type this blog from my Macbook Pro, that you lived your dharma. I know it wasn’t always easy.

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"Keep-able"? Is that a word? My brain is fried right now. 

Most of the 100-150ish wedding guests will be from far away. Groom and parents-in-law want to provide favors that they can keep forever--something with our names, the date, and possibly our faces on them. SIL had personalized Jones sodas, for example, and they've kept the empty bottles. 

My parents are super-considerate of the guests though, and think that something non-fragile is the best way to go. They insist that we include chocolates for those guests who won't care for the keep-able part, because everyone loves chocolates, and I agree with them.

I've been trying to find a solution that 1) incorporates chocolates (some local chocolates, two pieces--by my family's tradition, things like that must come in pairs) and 2) has a component that will last for a while...ie. not cardboard. 

Example: I have some experience designing laser cutting files, and tried out the idea of little laser cut favor boxes with names+date etched on the top. They'd fit the chocolates inside. The problem is, even with me providing the design labor,