threeplusfire: (Screw Off Lime)
three ([personal profile] threeplusfire) wrote2009-10-22 04:06 pm

CREEPY

Apparently you can buy your casket at Wal-Mart now.

Seriously.

This one has a nice Our Lady of Guadalupe on it.

I once went along for funeral planning for a relative. The display room of caskets was by far the most unsettling part. There was one in a lime disco green, as well as several child size coffins. Warranty placards were displayed on top of several caskets. I muttered something to myself about why the hell anyone buys a ten year warranty on a casket and the exceedingly ghoulish and heavily made up assistant told me "Oh honey, you'd be surprised."

Consider this my public request to never ever ever put me in some kind of hideous expensive, warrantied box and buried. Please don't.

[identity profile] coyotegoth.livejournal.com 2009-10-22 09:20 pm (UTC)(link)
Ever seen The Loved One, with Liberace as a coffin salesman...?

[identity profile] tsarina.livejournal.com 2009-10-22 09:54 pm (UTC)(link)
My god - the thought sends chills. Perhaps I should rent it as my scary movie for the weekend.

[identity profile] alainn-sorcha.livejournal.com 2009-10-22 10:05 pm (UTC)(link)
Wal-Mart, satisfying all your needs from cradle to grave.

[identity profile] tsarina.livejournal.com 2009-10-22 10:09 pm (UTC)(link)
SO CREEPY!
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[personal profile] annathyst 2009-10-22 10:17 pm (UTC)(link)
AUGH WHY

[identity profile] tsarina.livejournal.com 2009-10-22 10:28 pm (UTC)(link)
I don't know! But I can't believe people are writing reviews of it. Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.

[identity profile] freznor.livejournal.com 2009-10-25 09:20 pm (UTC)(link)
Looks like that honor is still officially available -- there's a cheery link stating "YOU can be the FIRST to review this item". Tempting.

Presumably you rejected some poor sod's review for naughty bits?

[identity profile] tsarina.livejournal.com 2009-10-26 10:42 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah - they hadn't actually purchased it. But I did get a couple of the Q&A submissions.

[identity profile] splix.livejournal.com 2009-10-22 11:54 pm (UTC)(link)
Costco sells em, too. Apparently they come not fully assembled. WTF ASSEMBLE YOUR OWN CASKET. I was wondering if they came in multipacks....

And I guess you can store them in your garage until the dirt nap comes. Hey, it's a great place for all those LPs you never play anymore and your grade-school drawings and your unstrung tennis rackets....

[identity profile] daysprings.livejournal.com 2009-10-23 12:18 am (UTC)(link)
Classic. Rest in peace, knowing that you saved money at Wal-Mart.

[identity profile] sykii.livejournal.com 2009-10-23 12:27 am (UTC)(link)
So you can buy a gun AND a casket at Wal Mart? That's what I call cornering the market. Damn.

[identity profile] nimlowyn.livejournal.com 2009-10-23 06:14 am (UTC)(link)
Ugh. This reminds me of the time I saw caskets at Costco a few years ago. A seriously WTF moment. Death's gone corporate.

[identity profile] delchi.livejournal.com 2009-10-23 07:27 am (UTC)(link)
It seems odd, until you look at the price comparisons.