We here at Bliss strive to be nothing if not topical. So this week, we shop for mailboxes. Bag Lady lost a mailbox during one of the six jillion storms in the past 10 days, which would seem to narrow her secret identity down to one of 100,000 people. In the interest of full disclosure, […]
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Bliss Thru Shopping: TP or not TP: The toilet paper challenge
There’s a single, fundamental issue we can all agree on this Inauguration Day: toilet paper. As in, it’s good. And important. And you don’t realize how desperately you need it until it’s gone. And that not just any toilet paper will do. There’s awfulness out there and now is not the time to stand, er, […]
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Bliss Thru Shopping: National No Pants Day and other things worth celebrating
Every January, Bag Lady loses the will to shop, what with burnout over all the consumerism of the last 60 days. And then, I look over and see an 11-month-old note scratched in pen on the corner of my desk: “Jan. 10 is National No Pants Day,” and, somehow, I find the will to shop […]
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Bliss Thru Shopping: We’re Marking a list and checking it twice
So. Christmas is Sunday. We’re speaking to you, last-minute shopper. And also to you, Mark LaFlamme. Bag Lady and Shopping Siren still remember when Sun Journal’s intrepid crime reporter would bug out of work 10 minutes to midnight on Christmas Eve, sprinting to the local Rite-Aid or gas station to pick up something for his […]
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Bliss Thru Shopping: Black Friday is upon us!
IT’S BLACK FRIDAY! You know, in case you somehow missed that. Maybe you got up before dawn today to score a Hatchimal. Or maybe you’re just getting up now at 10 a.m. to eat piping-hot French toast with cranberry compote (and, if that’s the case, high-five to you, Mr. or Ms. Doing It Right.) Either […]
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Bliss Thru Shopping: Retail mystery, take II
Please, on this fine Friday, come speculate with me. Since Bag Lady and Shopping Siren were so good about guessing which major retailer will be coming to Exit 80* in Lewiston, Bag Lady decided to take a crack this week at speculating who will be coming to the recently sold Promenade Mall. * OK, full […]
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Bliss Thru Shopping: Getting in the spirit
Good news: Halloween is Monday! Bad news: You probably have to work. Bag Lady and Shopping Siren feel your pain. Halloween is the best dress-up day of the year and the workplace is not usually conducive to dressing up. In that way. Ties or heels, yes. Gory clown makeup, no. (Really, no.) But an office […]
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Bliss Thru Shopping: Me-ow, what a week
Clearly, it’s time for a truckload of kittens. At least in the metaphorical sense. As summer draws to a close (did I get to the beach enough?) and the kids head back to school (did I write their initials on everything?) and political tension boils over (have I left any fire and brimstone voice mails […]
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Bliss Thru Shopping: I thee stranger wed
You cheer. You wince. And then you wonder: When is this fellow going to tell his brand new bride that he lives in a bus? Bag Lady and Shopping Siren are completely smitten with A&E’s “Married at First Sight.” Like, SMITTEN. Shopping Siren discovered the show last year and recommended it to BL, who then […]
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Bliss Thru Shopping: Pineland market marvelous
There’s a lot we love about Maine. Down-to-earth people. An abundance of friendly wildlife, most of which won’t try to eat you. Water enough to kayak on/swim in/drink from, sometimes all at once. And, now, Pineland Farms in New Gloucester. For sure, Pineland’s been around for years, and although the 200-acre campus and 5,000-acre farms […]