As Chris pointed out in his Hello Kitty appliance post, Japan’s most famous feline graces just about everything. Case in point: the Crane Hello Kitty Cool Mist Humidifier.
I was looking for something -- anything -- that would relieve the family from the shockingly dry heat in the house and there she was in her pink-ribboned glory. The unfortunate catch with Hello Kitty-adorned appliances is that you sometimes pay more for a product that delivers more cuteness, but less performance. (I’ve fallen in this trap a few times myself.) The humidifier seems to break that rule: The Amazon reviewers have marked it with 4 and a half stars and it’s only $5 more than other comparable Crane humidifiers.
Available at Amazon for $39.99.
About Heather Kuldell
Heather Kuldell thinks a day without stepping on her son's tiny, metal cars can be called successful. In addition to protecting sensitive insteps, she blogs, bikes, cooks and attempts to garden. By trade, she has worked for alternative newspapers, magazines and co-edited three collections of journalism called
Best AltWeekly Writing and Design.
