Between the six-packs of padded bras, the tiger-face leggings and the sweet maple cotton candy, I’m not even sure where to start. Maybe at the very beginning. In this column’s storied, 11-year history — can I be so bold as to call it storied? — we have yet to ever shop a fair. So it […]
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Bliss Thru Shopping: TV or not TV, that is the question
Shopping Siren has always adored everything about cable, from the corded remote control tethered to her childhood TV to the green slime slopped across Nickelodeon shows. My love affair with “Doctor Who” happened because of cable. So, too, my enchantment with cooking battles and Lifetime movies, ancient aliens and decorating shows in which neighbors wreck — […]
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Bliss Thru Shopping: Rolling with it
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: Bridgton or bust
Pop quiz: It’s 95 degrees out and 100 percent humidity. What do you do? What do you do? Well, if you’re Shopping Siren, you drape yourself across a broken air conditioner and suck on rapidly melting ice cubes. This is not recommended. If you’re anyone else — say, for example, you — you head to […]
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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: Wayfair away
Apologies in advance for the jingle. You know, the one that tells you Wayfair’s got just what you need. It sticks in your head. And then, based on the commercial, a dance party ensues. Because that’s what online shopping needs. Dance parties. We at Bliss usually stay away from the online-only big guys, but Wayfair.com […]
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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 […]