mutter.

It shouldn't be this hard. I'm trying to find three different (admittedly, somewhat specialty) items, but cannot find them anywhere. And no, even if Amazon has them, I don't want to spend half again as much in shipping.

I need another set of plain metal measuring cups and nobody local has them. They've got plastic or fancy $15+ metal ones nearly everywhere, but the basic Foley/American Metalcraft ones? nada. There's a restaurant supply company online that has them for <$4, but there's $6 shipping. I put a set on my Amazon wish list, and I'll add them to my next order.

I need a doll stand for a tiny doll. Can't find doll stands at all locally -- even the craft stores and the hardware store (where I got the last one) don't have them. They're $2 at the online craft stores, but it's another $6 for shipping. Amazon doesn't sell them by the each.

And doesn't anybody use plain paper for shelf liners anymore? The stores all have vinyl or padded or cork shelf liners, and wrapping paper is too shiny (and bright!). I dug around in the craft papers and found a roll of very slightly corrugated paper that should work as shelf liner for the china cabinet.

Being a geezer is hard.