Between Bag Lady and Shopping Siren, we have three hairy pets, two little black dresses and one burning question: What the %$!@ is wrong with this lint roller? Seriously. We’re pretty sure it adds fur when it’s supposed to be taking it away. After years of silently cursing and aggressively rolling ourselves, we finally decided […]
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Bliss Thru Shopping: All aflutter
Bag Lady and Shopping Siren are having a glitter and feathers emergency. Odds are, you, too, may be facing a similar bedazzling crisis.* * We’re looking at you, Mark LaFlamme. Or, you may have little guys to keep entertained for 13 more loooong days ’til school starts. Either way, everyone wins! This week, Bag Lady […]
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Bliss Thru Shopping: Fluff, Moxie, whoopie pies — we do Maine right
So Bag Lady and Shopping Siren are doing some entertaining this summer. Mostly, only of people we like. (It’s a small number.) If guests are arriving from out of state and we’ve decided we enjoy their company enough to let them use the off-limits-to-people-who-live-here fancy hand towel in the bathroom, to empty the fridge of […]
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Bliss Thru Shopping: Lady luck?
Here’s to hoping today’s our lucky day. In honor of 7/7/17, Bag Lady compiled a list of seven current retail-related loves and desires.* * I was going to say yearnings except no one uses yearning anymore. Or the even less common yearner. You ever yearnered? I didn’t think so. The list is … eclectic. Maybe […]
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Bliss Thru Shopping: Game on!
As a public service, Bag Lady wants to make sure you have June 19 marked on your calendars. Yes, that’s National Martini Day (critical), but there’s even more reason to celebrate. IT’S THE DAY THE NEW “GOLDEN GIRLS” CLUE COMES OUT. And yeah, I’m excited. Instead of solving a murder, the new version of the […]
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Bliss Thru Shopping: Chicken envy
Full disclosure: We originally walked into the Tractor Supply Co. two weeks ago looking for a welcome mat. Instead we found a slew of 6-foot-tall metal roosters, their 6-inch-shorter girlfriends and child-size Batman gardening gloves and watering cans. So here we are. We’ve been to Tractor Supply before, when it first opened on Lisbon Street […]
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Bliss Thru Shopping: Just walk all over us
A welcome mat is sort of like underwear for your house. Now just hear us out. It sets a tone. (Perky? All business?) It conveys a message, sometimes literally (“Hello!”), sometimes implied by its sorry state (Go ahead, track mud inside! I don’t give a flipping flip!). And when it’s missing, it’s just … weird. Uncomfortable. […]
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Bliss Thru Shopping: I suck and other revelations
This week’s been a doozy and it’s not over yet! So let’s hop to it. I suck Bag Lady may have fried the family Dyson this week by vacuuming up bits of a shattered plastic Easter egg. The motorhead started smoking, the plastic casing started melting and the machine whined louder than a 747 at […]
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Bliss Thru Shopping: You say Easter, we say mmm
We here at Bliss applaud innovation. For example, we take note and give a standing O when it involves the marriage of chocolate, almonds and hedgehogs, white chocolate and asparagus, and a 1.5-pound chocolate Bean boot with a peanut butter tread. We’re not even making these up. Today we’re off on a virtual road trip […]
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Bliss Thru Shopping: JC Penney: A love letter
We love JC Penney. There. We said it. No takesies backsies. Bag Lady and Shopping Siren know the retailer probably isn’t so popular anymore, what with all the other online options out there. But we aren’t shy about expressing our affection for the store that has, over the years, brought us our favorite sunglasses ever, […]