Police say the bottom line is to make your car is not an easy target — don’t leave valuables easily visible from the windows.
Hide your stuff, stash it in the trunk, or better yet take it with you.
Women’s clothing size craziness
My own closet contains a puzzling variety of “sizes”— shirts from XS to XL, dresses and pants from 4-10, and despite adding some winter insulation, ahem, most fit my current state.
This ridiculous array of women’s clothing sizes has been getting a lot of attention on the interwebs the last few weeks.
This fella explicitly (language may be offensive to some) laid out the absurdity of the range of sizes by putting on his girlfriend's XL clothes and posting about it on Facebook, and there is this backlash against plus-sizes nailed comically by Amy Schumer.
Research shows while the number on the clothes has gotten smaller, the actual size is the same or larger— some great charts here.
Some call this vanity sizing, but c’mon ladies, do we really needs to wear a size four, six, whatever, when the size means absolutely nothing?
I found an article from American National Standards Institute that describes this insanity in detail and encourages changes to make clothing "true to size."
Great news— until you see the article was written in 2002.
I guess I’ll keep avoiding online clothes shopping, and continue to frustratingly schlep back and forth to the dressing room with five sizes of the same dang pair of pants.
Laundry packets still a danger to kids
Those shrink wrapped colorful squares of laundry liquid are back in the news for being irresistible to children who apparently can’t help taking a bite.
Even after companies changed laundry pod containers to make them less like a candy jar, and made them more child proof, an average of 30 children a day in the U.S. are being exposed to the packets potent chemical mixture.
There were 11 accidental ingestions reported to Dayton Children’s Hospital last year.
Nine of the victims were two or younger, and two of the victims were between three and four years old.
“Those concentrated chemicals can cause serious burns. If it gets down in the lung it can cause severe damage. Also, when it’s absorbed it can cause effects on the brain,” said Dr. Gary Smith, who studied the pod dangers at Nationwide Children’s hospital in Columbus.
Doctors say parents of young children should avoid the packets altogether or keep the detergent locked in a cabinet that is out of reach of little fingers.
Rachel Murray is a WHIO-TV consumer reporter. You can watch her reports on News Center 7, follow her on Twitter @RMurrayWHIO, and like her fan page on Facebook.
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