There’s the kids’ teachers, the mail person, the garbage person, the person who lets your cats out when you’re traveling/hospitalized/incarcerated, Peter down the hall, Peter down the hall’s kids, your favorite barista, your office secret Santa. It’s that time of year for giving lots of littles. So let’s spend a little, too. In a Bliss-first […]
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Bliss Thru Shopping: Mainely awesome
Oprah Winfrey has fabulous taste, obviously — she’s flipping Oprah. So when her magazine came out with Oprah’s Favorite Things 2018, we went ooh. Then ahh. Then, wow. Because we’d love to buy a cool-looking electric bike if we had $1,800 and winter wasn’t coming in, like, 20 minutes. But we also got to thinking […]
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Bliss Thru Shopping: Marden's, ho!
Bag Lady hadn’t been to Marden’s in f-o-r-e-v-e-r. OK, fine. We did shop for tights there in April, fleetingly. Doesn’t count. It wasn’t perused, it wasn’t savored, it wasn’t oh-my-toast-there’s-two-racks-of-J.Jill-for-$9.99. Because oh-my-toast, it’s true. Marden’s is the sort of store that demands to be strolled at least every six months, and what better time than now, […]
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Bliss Thru Shopping: Editor's note
Bliss Thru Shopping will appear next week, as soon as Bag Lady and Shopping Siren return from an extreme couponing/leaf peeping/early Christmas shopping road trip.
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Bliss Thru Shopping: How to celebrate National Singles Week
So it’s National Singles Week next week and we can’t help but think there’s a strong case to be made for celebrating singledom. See as evidence: “Married at First Sight.” “90 Day Fiance.” The imagined horror of being married to a too-chipper “Property Brothers” brother who wears tighter jeans than you do. Now how to […]
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Bliss Thru Shopping: Chips gone wild
Bag Lady and Shopping Siren were, like everyone, intrigued by Lay’s limited-edition New England Lobster Roll potato chips. How lobstery would they be? How buttery? How … on earth did someone decide this should be a thing? We were eager to try. For the column’s sake. Because we are professionals who care about bringing you […]
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Bliss Thru Shopping: Postponed
Editor’s note: Bag Lady and Shopping Siren are off this week enjoying the fantasy of a refreshing trip to Anchorage, Alaska, where it is 68 degrees and much less than 100 percent humidity. They will be back next week, cool, calm and ready to dish. (Literally, they will require dishes for their shopping adventure.)
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Bliss Thru Shopping: Where art thou, Juliet's
We love little secondhand shops. Big secondhand shops? Big love. So Juliet’s Clothing — with its two-and-a-half-times larger space two doors down from its old Auburn storefront on Center Street — is gigantic LOVE. Yes, all in caps. We last visited Juliet’s maybe a couple of years ago. It was cute then, and we remember […]
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Bliss Thru Shopping: Heels for fleeing dinos
When “Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom” opens next week, all eyes will be on the special effects, yes, and the dinosaurs, the teeth, the drool, the chompiness, but they’ll also be on the heels. Bryce Dallas Howard’s character spent all of “Jurassic World” three years ago running in super high heels from dinosaurs and, despite critics deriding […]
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Bliss Thru Shopping: Nice day for a royal wedding
We started this week with a challenge: What Maine-made wedding gifts could we buy the couple who has everything? And what could we get under $20, under $100, under $1,000, and for an unlimited amount of money? Because it’s not often we get to shop with an imaginary-unlimited budget, and it’s highly unlikely anyone else […]