“Make the world go away.”™
As 2009 winds down and heads into the wonderfully stressful holidays, what comfort foods are you going to turn to? According to a new trend-mapping report from the Center for Culinary Development (CCD), that depends on your age.
What do you do with a crying baby? Popping in a pacifier usually does the trick. How about someone crying over their 401K? Well for that, Madison Avenue seems to have found a pacifier for the times: Nostalgia.
When baby won’t sleep, Mom and Dad don’t either. In an age when you can find a consultant for just about everything, it only makes sense to call a sleep consultant. Dream Team Baby is a service that teaches children age 4 months to 2 years to overcome sleep problems.
If you’ve traveled much lately, you’ve probably noticed that many hotel lobbies have been transformed into enticing and comfortable environments (unless you are still staying at the hourly-rate hotels). It’s all about “making the world go away” and keeping you right there at the hotel.
The more the world presses in on us with high gas prices, the war in Iraq, and what seems like a new natural disaster every week, the more we all want to escape. People are spending whatever it takes to buy products or services that can soothe and comfort them.
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