ouch, that last one sounded like a painful lesson on how to watch for poison oak!
I can relate to the shirts. During my QVC days (before online shopping became an option) they ran a scrapbooking series. During one day I bought 3 different color schemes of the same paper, 2 sets of thicker paper, a laminator and each type of cartridge (that qvc soon stopped carrying all the cartridges to) 2 different sets of pens, markers, and about 1,000 letters and numbers in different shapes and sizes. Oh, and I can't forget the 2 "complete scrapbooking sets". Why I'd need those, after everything else I got, I still don't know. And like a lot of you, as soon as I got over the manic, the supplies just sat there. I do occasionally use them now for art supplies and craft supplies for the kids, but most of that very expensive paper still sits in a storage bin with other stuff I don't have room in my room for.
Not too long later QVC ran a Laptop promotion. Shortly thereafter, I was no longer allowed to shop on QVC...