Even when they don’t work, I still keep them for two possible reasons: 1) I like old things hence my collection of twenty-four vintage metal recipe boxes that looked really awesome alongside my Kit-Cat clock… when it worked, and 2) the clocks remind me a little of my childhood and a board game we kept in the hall closet based on Felix the Cat. It’s sitting there at this very minute.Īnd there you have how much I like Kit-Cat clocks. And then I placed the clock and its accompanying tail in the laundry room. So I went back, lifted the cat from the garbage can, dug around for the tail, and found it. However, half an hour later, I knew I couldn’t leave it there. (Okay, it’s not as cute as it used to be. I had lost patience and chucked the poor, cute little clock into the trash. Still no luck.īy this time, my devotion to the clock began to wane. And since I’m never one to give up, I packed the clock (all the while asking myself why am I doing this?!) and moved it into our new home, where I eventually tried yet again about a month ago to revive the pile of plastic. I left it, still and silent, on the wall.Ībout a year later, we moved. The Kit-Cat clock might actually be finally dead, I thought, ready now more than ever to just chuck the whole thing in the trash.īut I didn’t. Then I looked a little closer at the clock. Tapped and moved a few internal parts and still no go. I took the batteries out again, and then put in different batteries. The clock still worked, but the eyes and the tail-the reasons one purchases a Kit-Cat Clock in the first place- didn’t. About a year later, those eyes and that tail stopped again. After correcting that, my Kit-Cat Clock swung again and it was just peachy… until it wasn’t. That day came and after piddling around a little more, I figured out that I had earlier replaced the batteries incorrectly. So I put the dang thing away for another day. The only one that seemed plausible was to replace the batteries, so I did. After consulting the trouble-shooting website, none of the possible remedies for the malfunction fit. It operated beautifully for about two years and then stopped. In 2014, my daughter gave me the clock as a birthday present. I won’t throw it away, mind you, but I’ll relegate it to the back of a shelf in the laundry room. I’ve held onto my Kit-Cat clock for long enough. I only have the Kit-Cat Klock company to blame, but I won’t even do that.
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