It’s the kind of week where you find a squirrel in your car, very belatedly celebrate Christmas, drive to Goodwill, kick yourself for not driving there sooner and celebrate. Well, in all fairness, around here we always find a reason to celebrate. Let’s get to it! Happy something to me! Bag Lady recently celebrated a milestone […]
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Bliss Thru Shopping: Picnic perfect
Bag Lady and Shopping Siren love white clothes in summer. On other people. Other very daring people. Personally, Shopping Siren hasn’t worn anything on the eggshell to old lace spectrum since the Great Ketchup Incident of 1998. After a 20-plus-year drought, Bag Lady bought a pair of white pants this spring and has worn them […]
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Bliss Thru Shopping: See you next week!
Editor’s note: Bag Lady and Shopping Siren have jetted off to Paris. Or they’re out sick. One of those. Bliss Thru Shopping has been postponed a week, but the ladies will be back next Friday with a new column. And, possibly, souvenirs.
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Bliss Thru Shopping: A knit bikini? Just say no
It’s June! Finally! Let’s kick up our heels, dust off our bikinis and get to it — it’s a retail mash-up. Marital honesty An actual conversation three weeks ago at the Bag House while watching an episode of “Survivor”: BL: “See how that woman’s bikini bottom is rouched up the back, along the seam of […]
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Bliss Thru Shopping: Willow or won’t we
There are things we love. Things we looooove. And things we appreciate with a cocked eyebrow and a noncommittal “hmm.” Like decorative rust. And Taylor Swift. Granted, when it comes to the former, it’s artistically draped rust, placed just so on a set of faux-distressed salt-and-pepper shakers or a created-last-week-to-look-ancient birdhouse. But still. In everyday […]
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Bliss Thru Shopping: All you are due
So, it turns out, the average Maine tax return will net $586 from the state this tax season. We are apparently not average in this way, our tax refunds being decidedly south of nearly $600. (By about $600.) But that doesn’t stop us from dreaming. And shopping. If you’re average — only for this, because […]
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Bliss Thru Shopping: A retail love letter to Boaty McBoatface
Some weeks we draw column inspiration from our own lives. For instance if there’s a birthday gift or Valentine we need to shop for. Other weeks we take Bliss from our closets. Like, do we need sandals for spring? (And we do, so that’s coming, but not this week.) And sometimes we get our ideas […]
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Bliss Thru Shopping: Love and ice cream
There comes a time in every shopper’s life when one must stop and smell the roses. Or the rose-scented body wash. This week Bag Lady and Shopping Siren pause to reflect. Consider. Update. A retail roundup, if you will. Also, there’s ice cream. Or there will be ice cream. So maybe we’re really just stopping […]
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Bliss Thru Shopping: On your mark, get set, Valentine’s Day!
So. Valentine’s Day is Sunday. We’re sure you knew that. We’re also sure you’re ready, what with the chocolates and roses and wine and reservations at a romantic restaurant and the two tickets to Cabo San Lucas you stashed in your sock drawer. You know, the things you got weeks ago in preparation for a […]
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Bliss Thru Shopping: A shirts-free, post-holiday, ‘Property Brothers’ mashup!
It happens every January like clockwork. Bag Lady starts to suffer from LSD, low shopping drive. The symptoms: General retail malaise. Diminished surplus funds. Zero entice-ability. A 30 percent off Kohl’s coupon that arrived in the mail last week didn’t even make me consider for one second going into the store or hopping online. I […]