EDIT: Dead now

Sherri sent in a link to this free NIVEA Body lotion sample a few days back, which got me thinking about the first time I used a NIVEA product. Back when I was in late middle school, I begged my mom to bring back some “contraband” from Italy that you couldn’t buy in the states. I just thought it’d be cool to have something illegal here, but totally legal elsewhere, like Cuban cigars or Libyan biscuits or something. She, being totally smarter than me, brought me some NIVEA lotion that was simply covered in Italian and concocted some story about how you couldn’t buy it here. I think it took me 3 years to figure it out.