All I know is the LIVE LOVE LAUGH Factory has made a lot of money. I do not wish to donate to the cause cuz THEY are the ones LIVIN, LOVIN, and LAUGHIN off the dollar amount some people spend on this atrocious trend. So please no letters on my wall trying to motivate me to do great things while I’m folding my laundry. Live Love Laugh is not profound. It’s alliteration. And because I don’t want roosters and geese in my kitchen doesn’t mean I’m cold and modern. I really am nice even though I haven’t painted that anywhere in my house.
It’s just that having my wall tell me to DANCE LIKE NO ONE IS WATCHING– is going to make it less fun because I already do. But there are some who need these reminders. Wall chatter gives them endorphins. And you have that right, but you don’t want people taking your idea in vain repetition do you?
When someone calls your wall “cute” and then calls you “cute” do you find it oddly condescending? (Condescending is talking down and in which telling you what that means might qualify as such).
Writing my favorite thoughts on my walls would be a mess. I prefer well thought out and not written on my wall. SEE IT. DREAM IT. DO IT. Who wants to read this while they’re vacuuming? It makes me feel like a failure.
The mantle was once a prestigious place in the home. In pride and prejudice as Elizabeth, Caroline, and Mr. Darcy walk by the mantle reciting intelligent banter, we don’t see thoughts like, I LOVE CHOCOLATE or LIVE TODAY LIKE YOU’LL DIE TOMORROW (that’s nice) plastered with odds and ends of figurines.
Block letters? Weren’t they first invented for babies to chew on and now they’re suitable to be the bookends for War and Peace? We like to arrange words like, BELIEVE or SPRING up there with blocks so we can switch the spelling to -? Predictive text had no other options for me so I have no idea. But at least we’ve covered all of our future word décor desires. Check.
Now, when we see these phrases in a home, we think, ‘These are nice people.’
Wall sermons are a brave religion, second only to Bible body art.
Like, you can’t be yelling at each other when you’ve got BLESS OUR HAPPY HOME above every flipping door way. Or GIVE US THIS DAY OUR DAILY BREAD right above the plasma TV....IN THE KITCHEN! Geez, life is rough.
“That these things might not be written upon our hearts, but rather upon our walls.” 1 (footnote)
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1. SMATCHU?
9 comments:
OK - first of all, I don't think LIS'd is going to catch on. But, props for the effort.
I have to say, I am increasibly fascinated by your point of view because (whether or not I've met similar people) you're the first who has been vocal about some of this stuff. I like it.
I love the cynicism, and even the subtle pessimism.
But something about it just seems so ... random.
It makes me want to play the devil's advocate.
But, sadly, I have a policy not to defend cheesy things - and scriptures spelled out on abc blocks qualifies as cheesy.
But who knows, maybe I'll think of something.
I got a bunch of that letter crap for my wedding. So maybe I'm using the one that spells out "F-A-L-L." So what.
I noticed that nobody is using abc blocks to display scriptures like
Joshua 6:21 in living rooms.
"And they utterly destroyed all that was in the city, both man and woman, young and old, and ox, and sheep, and ass, with the edge of the sword."
Gee. What an optimistic verse. Sure makes me want to be a better person. I'd better make a magnet of it and stamp it onto my fridge.
I couldn't disagree more, but I stil love you!
Dear Daughter...
Excellent work. Very Erma Bombeckish. A pop-culture humorist is what you is. Keep'em coming...
Your Dad
I happen to completely agree with you. It's nothing but a trend and adds clutter to your wall.
Just because it's posted up where everyone can see it, it doesn't mean that you are a righteous person. When it comes down to it you are just as lazy and rude as the rest of us.
Hannah you are hilarious! I loved that post! I am totally adding "Read Hannah's blog" to my daily checklist.
I will admit that I am a fan of vinyl wording for walls. I personally do not own any, but I think it fills a void on a wall. The phrase, "Live Laugh Love" is used excessively and I don't like that. If I did ever purchase vinyl wording, it would have to be something custom made. I like things to be unique and "cute."
My thoughts on the word "cute."
It is commonly used now in society, just as much as the word "hello." When we answer the phone, see/meet someone for the first time, we say - hello/hi/how are you... Now when we see something we like we say it's cute. It's ingrained into our brains, just like "hello." How do we break out of this cookie cutter way of thinking?
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