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, […]
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Bliss Thru Shopping: Smash! Crash! Yup, that was your mailbox
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: Sweet ride
Shopping Siren has never gotten a car for Christmas. No waking up to gently wafting snow and my model/millionaire husband presenting me the keys to my new luxury SUV in a Tiffany-blue gift box. No surprise sports car magically showing up in the driveway, topped by a gigantic red bow and the tag “From Santa.” […]
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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 […]