So for my birthday this year I hosted a Hawaiian luau. It was a blast completed with coconut bras, grass skirts, and straw hats from the dollar store. I spent the most I’ve ever spent at a dollar store (between $50-$60) but everyone got to be completely decked out in luau attire and the decorations were awesome.
After the party I decided that I wanted to keep the decorations and fancy dollar store attire in case I ever decided to throw another luau. I spent a little too much on everything to just throw/give it away.
My life and possessions are a semi-organized mess right now and I recently noticed there was a straw hat sitting on a DVD rack. But there was something else interacting with the hat…my cat. Her name is Piper and she hates you. She is very anti-stranger though, so don’t take it personally. So what was Piper doing with it you ask? Why she was EATING IT of course!
Um, gross?
So deciding that I didn’t want to be the one discovering the straw infested pile of cat vomit, I shushed her away and told her no.
Maybe straw=addictive for cats?
She couldn’t resist! She hopped right back up there and started gnawing away on it again!
After several more attempts of shushing, I realized how cute/strange/slightly obnoxious this situation was. So what did I do? I took the hat, put it on the bed, and photographed her nibbling the hat.

Piper and her fine dining experience.
I can hear exactly what the boy toy would say to this post:
“See hon? We don’t even need to have kids! We have Piper to annoy us and chew on things she’s not supposed to!”
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