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I’ll admit that I’m pretty much a klutz, and if there is a way to mess something up, I’ll find it and expand on it, creating a glorious fiasco of the simplest task.  However, even I can manage to accomplish many of the tasks deemed so completely difficult and virtually impossible by television infomercials.  The marketing of many seen on TV products relies heavily on the concept of making a difficult task easy.  After all, who knew a traditional blanket was such an unwieldy contraption until the invention of the Snuggie?  (As someone who smugly mocked the Snuggie when it first came out, I became a devoted fan during a blizzard last winter.  I could hold a baby and keep myself bundled up without smothering us both.)

As I was researching this week’s Way Back Wednesday blog post, I came across the following video, a “Tribute to Doing it Wrong.”  This video takes several of the many examples of How to Screw Up Simple Tasks demonstrated in television infomercials, and sets the montage to the classic Beatles tune “Help.”  Fitting, no?

It just kind of makes me feel warm inside to see people who are so much better than I am at failing royally.  Walking?  Too hard!  Using a blanket?  Impossible!  Pouring milk?  Never!

Thank goodness for products which make our lives so much easier and take the fail out of surviving another day full of obstacles and hazards.