Boxed Poo...

This morning I found myself digging in a box of gardening things in search of something I got quite some time ago as a gift for Christmas.

I had forgotten I even had it, until I was reading the blogs yesterday and read a comment on Yetanotherguy's blog. I am not sure what the original comment was exactly, but it was about boxed up "poo". I had to respond back with a comment that I did indeed have boxed up poo.

That is something most people won't normally admit to. I have a box of poo, let alone tell the world you got it for Christmas one year from your sister-in-law. Most would think my sister-in-law was trying to tell me something by that gift choice, but knowing my sister-in-law better, I know she bought it for the humor and because I like to garden.

Several of you will remember my past blog on asking for bags of compost/manure mix for my birthday. I was surprised that I was not alone in asking for poo as a present. Anyone who gardens though, knows we are a weird bunch, and it's the small things that make us happy.

My gift of Christmas poo is an old gift though. I am not sure how many Christmases ago that I got it. It has remained in the bottom of a box of garden paraphernalia for ages. So long in fact, I doubt my poo has much power. My poo is old, and I half way expected to come across it in it's box, just a powdery dust of "used to be poo".

But there it was, still in it's box, wrapped in cellophane, my rabbit shaped poo. The poo was designed to be pretty in a planter, not at all what one would imagine when thinking of boxed up poo. The makers of the formed poo are "ZOO DOO". I am not even sure if the company is still around. But the premise is, that the poo, is zoo recycled animal waste is made into something that every gardener will love. And you will be glad to know, that according to the box, there are many styles and other gifts available too. That it is "positively doolightful".

It's cute. It's funny. It's kinda expensive when compared to just regular bagged poo. The practical side of me can only mentally calculate how much of the real poo I could have gotten for the price of the pretty stuff. 

So I googled a bit for the ZooDoo and it's kinda hard to find. Now I am sorta regretting opening up my boxed up rabbit shaped poo and sticking it in my planter this morning. I am now wondering if I shouldn't have kept my neatly packaged poo as some sort of investment. What if some day it is worth something? Surely it will become a collector's item. If they can sell potato chips or chicken nuggets shaped like George Washington surely a box of rabbit formed zoo doo in it's original packaging could be worth a small fortune.

I know I am going to regret unpacking my poo. I just wasn't thinking. I should have hoarded my poo and let it's value increase. Darn the luck, I was just too intent on blogging today to know the value of boxed poo...