Is it bad that when I first read about these recalls I thought, “JCPenney is still open?” And then what made it worse is that my wife reminded me there was one at the mall down the street. Hey, I’m not trying to be elitist, it’s just nowadays when I think cheap pants, I think Target. And I guess now when I think Penney’s I’ll think “lead paint”.

JCPenney today announced a trifecta of recalls due to high levels of lead paint, including:

2,400 Breyer Stirrup Ornaments — sorry, but they’re doing you a favor keeping this tacky thing off your xmas tree.

19,000 Deluxe Art Sets — surprisingly enough there’s not lead in the paint included with the art set, but rather in the surface paint on the outside of the box.

49,000 Winnie-the-Pooh Play Sets — OK, nothing to really say about this one so I’ll go off on a tangent. How do you answer your kids with the inevitable question, “Why is his name ‘pooh’?”

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