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Personal 22 Apr 2007 03:56 pm

Read a Mat

Update: I just noticed that on my Solar System Read a Mat in my apartment, Pluto is in the Solar System… but on the image on my blog below (taken from the Read a Mat site) Pluto is gone! Glad to see the Read a Mat company is keeping up with the times.

Original Post: Did anyone else have “Read a Mat” growing up? I bet a lot of readers of this blog did. For those who are unfamiliar, they are educational plastic placemats for kids.

I still use them, seriously. I think it’s a nice retro throwback in my otherwise modern Manhattan apt, but I bet some people see them and wonder: “does he have illegitimate children..?!”

Here are the two mats on my table:

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Comments (3)

3 Responses to “Read a Mat”

  1. on 22 Apr 2007 at 10:12 pm 1.candice said …

    Yes, and yours are cooler than mine were.

  2. on 23 Apr 2007 at 5:04 am 2.amy said …

    i just remember plates. i made a lot of kick-ass plates.
    that’s what i’ll do for MY apartment.

  3. on 23 Apr 2007 at 5:51 am 3.Caroline McCarthy said …

    You can still get those!?! I think I had every single one while growing up.