Shopping Siren’s car is red. Probably. To the best of anyone’s recollection. At the moment it’s mostly grayish-white. You know, like your car. And your neighbor’s car. And the cars of all your friends and co-workers and everyone behind, beside or in front of you in traffic, in perpetuity. Because it’s been that kind of […]
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Bliss Thru Shopping: Generally speaking, two thumbs up
We were curious, like approximately 99.7 percent of the rest of Maine: What is this Dollar General that’s started popping up like the Easter bunny on a sugar high? (That 0.3 percent of the population being non-shoppers/non-inquisitive people. We don’t get them. At all.) Is Dollar General like Dollar Tree, where everything is a dollar? […]
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Bliss Thru Shopping: Top seeded
Shopping Siren nearly swooned last weekend. Swooned. Like a Victorian maiden who had just seen her fair love return from war. Except I was watching a preseason Red Sox game. And instead of my fair love, I saw grass. I had nearly forgotten such a thing existed. But there it was, glorious in its […]
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Bliss Thru Shopping: Reality bites: Amazing Race, Survivor, Down East Dickering
If Bag Lady were to go on a televised race around the world tethered to a stranger whom she was meeting for the first time as a blind date — “Hi America! This isn’t awkward at all!” — I would pack deodorant and mouthwash, naturally. Probably pajama pants for sleeping. (Bag Lady is endlessly modest.) […]
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Bliss Thru Shopping: Swimming against the tide
So we were, at one point last week, weighing whether to write about swimsuits or snow shovels. On the one hand, it’s a shovelly kind of month. On the other, if we have to look at/pick up/use another shovel, we might hurt someone. And call us crazy, but after bundling up to deal with approximately […]
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Bliss Thru Shopping: Bringing fanny back, thanking your plow driver
First, Bag Lady was going to write about the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries & Wildlife’s online store. Wait. They have an online store? They do! And they sell LED-lit fleece beanies, limited-edition wildlife prints and more official green-logo’d merch than you can shake a frozen snake at. So many possibilities. But then I was […]
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Bliss Thru Shopping: Hobby Lobby or bust
It’s a bit HomeGoods. A bit Michael’s. A bit Jo-Ann Fabric. A bit hide-your-wallet. Hobby Lobby is the sort of place that you could easily come in for a picture frame and walk out with $50 worth of Marvel Comics drawer pulls. In our inaugural trip through its shiny new doors, Bag Lady and Shopping […]
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Bliss Thru Shopping: Sweet dreams, now go to bed
It’s been a long three — or four — or, gulp, five — years. There have been tears. There have been tantrums. There’s been an embarrassing amount of screaming at 3 a.m. Not to mention your kids weren’t happy, either. But finally — finally! — you’ve gotten little Mason and Emma to sleep through the […]
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Bliss Thru Shopping: Revisiting local favorites from 2014
We love local stores. We love New Year’s resolutions much less. Er. This year, loathe even comes to mind. (Yes, we need to exercise more, eat better, organize, get more sleep, spend wisely and have more fun. Hopefully, in 2015 we’ll hit at least three of those six. Fingers and knickers crossed.) So instead of […]
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R. Charpentier: Getting the facts straight
In the Dec. 12 “Bliss Thru Shopping” column (love that section of the Sun Journal), Bag Lady mistakenly wrote about the Hobby Lobby store, soon to open, that “… we’re getting that craft store that’s arguing in front of the Supreme Court over its rights not to cover contraception.” That the Hobby Lobby business does […]