Things I’ve Bought That I Love: Simplehuman 30L Retro Step Can

September 29, 2011

On the Venn diagram of things that Kelly Kapoor likes, and things that I like, pink is pretty much the biggest overlap.

When I was in my 20′s I thought, okay fine, I’m pushing it, but pink is still technically age-appropriate. Then when I turned 30 I thought: “Oh shit, I love pink so much still. I have to trade this out with tartan plaid or something”. That never happened. So now I’m just this 32 year old woman hoping that Michelle Obama will make pink their signature color or something will make it acceptable for me to like this color normally associated with Hello Kitty.

A pink garbage can, you say? Let me just say something. It’s not bubble gum pink or baby pink. It’s more of a berrypink, which exonerates me. The reason I bought this pink Simplehuman garbage can was that pops of color work well in my old Spanish house.

I learned this in 2007 when I bought my friend and fellow Office writer Michael Schur’s house and I bought these cherry red LG washer and dryers. They were kind of pricey (especially since it was during the Writers Strike and I wasn’t working) but it has become the thing I most like looking at in my house, besides that parrot colony that sometimes lands on the tree in front of my house.

I also think that the garbage can and the washer dryer look like you could eat them, like those iMacs used to look like in 1997.

For: people who might buy their furniture from Pinkberry if that was possible, teenage girls, people who are young in spirit (okay pushing it).
$140 from Gilt.com

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Welcome!

September 29, 2011

About four years ago, I started a blog called “Things I’ve Bought That I Love”. I know, I know. You’re like: Mindy, of course we know your blog. We all lived and died to your postings on that site, you don’t have to tell us. We love you. You’re an angel.

For those of you not lucky enough to have seen my old, very materialistic blog, there’s a link on this site the little ghost town where it lives now, suspended in time and space.

Things I’ve Bought That I Love was created primarily to do something during long breaks at work when our bosses, Paul Lieberstein and Greg Daniels, were editing or on set directing, and we had finished our assignments. Comedy writing is the best job in the world but there can be stretches of achingly boring downtime. Sometimes, instead of reporting back to the head writer when I was done with an assignment - only to sit idly in the writers room playing Word Mole on my Blackberry - I chose to update my blog. Because I am lucky enough to have a little disposable income, I would write about some of my purchases and pack them with anecdotes from work or life so that my mom could read it an have fun learning about my life. I even got some of my funny friends, like Danny Chun and Steve Hely- who I never got to see enough- to post very occasionally. Now Danny and Steve both work at the Office, so I get to see them a lot. Too much, even. Eventually, I got more and more responsibility on the show, and that precious downtime was less and less, so I couldn’t keep up with the postings, and I had to let the blog go.

A few months ago I thought about starting up the blog again, but I saw that someone had purchased “thingsiboughtthatilove.com”. I thought “Oh well, it’s not meant to be.” But now that I have my first book coming out and some writings in various magazines and, frankly, some hot photos of myself I want the internet to see, I thought: let me get my web presence back! Also, 140 characters is too small of a space to discuss the things I want to discuss.

So, stay tuned for some Things I’ve Bought That I Love posts, and hopefully some other stuff too. Visit Mon Amie for links to my loved ones and friends, and check out some photos of me in my Showroom. To reward you for reading this far, I’m going to share a photo of you that my Dad sent me when I was writing my book and wanted some kid photos. Enjoy (if that’s the right word).

Love, Mindy

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