"Days when you can't see wrong from right"

It's been 22 days and counting since I received my Native order and I've been wearing the Cucumber Mint since I opened it.

My dryness has been trying to keep up. I mean, it did take a couple days to get my pits to acclimate themselves back to a different stick, but for the most part, by the time I get home from work, I don't smell awful. I actually can still smell the flavor by the time I shower at 5pm... a mere 11 hours after my first shower. 

Now if only other areas stayed that fresh! Haha.

So, I do have to make the comment about Amazon vs Target vs Native vs everyone else. 

I was in Target the other day and saw that they raised their prices. The stick I bought a while back (Coconut Vanilla) was priced at 11.99 then. The other day, it was marked $13.99, along with all the other flavors. The exception was a fast sale on one specific scent (which I now forget), and that was $11.99. They have the plastic free sticks, aka "the paper tubes" for $12 and change. I think it was $12.49? Don't quote me. I just remember seeing the price difference and was amazed it shot up. Maybe they (Target) is trying to push the "plastic free" sticks as it's the newest craze. Literally, it's a toilet paper roll with the deodorant in it. 

Seriously.

I picked up one of the scents to smell, and was a bit weirded out over the fact there wasn't that much protection around the stick. It seriously feels like someone took a spent bog roll, made it just slightly thinner (imagine the width of a Red Bull, 12 oz can), stuffed the deodorant in it, put a pusher on one end and a slightly larger cover over that, and bam, plastic free is the way to be. Unfortunately, it's not listed on Amazon, so I can't give a price comparison, but the Native website has it for $13 (while the plastic version is $12).

I'm unsure about going quickly to Target to purchase the plastic casing, if it's going to go up in price. At that rate, I might as well go online to Amazon because I don't want to buy again from the Native site, as I don't want a repeat of this last ordeal. However, Amazon is selling single sticks for $11.97, some of the pricing is different for some of the scents. I'd really have to scour the page, in order to see what price is what, and if it's a smell I think I can deal with. Because honestly, a 3 pack of one of the scents for $40 isn't a deal (however, the $23 and change for 2, I could maybe deal with). 

I think when I use up the third and final stick, I'm just going to have to bite the bullet and find something more affordable and maintainable. I can't just arbitrarily spend less or more money in places because I had a shitty experience with a brand's website. I've actually been tempted to try Tom's again (but check the prices and ingredients first). 

Until then, keep it clean!

Cheers;

See also

• Blog post title comes from The Kinks Days
• I was going to quote db's Days with"All the days of my life"
• Or even The Next Day with "On the gallows for me | And the next day | and the next" with the body starting "And another day".
• #decisions