In this season of hyper-retailing, Bliss is whipping out a mash-up, a sort of palate-cleanser amid all the shopping you’ve got going on this month. Instead, Bag Lady is all about bugs, murderous summer camps and future shopping opportunities. You know, just an average day in the life. Let’s fa-la-la-la-la get to it! Hobby Lobby: […]
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Bliss Thru Shopping: Preparing for a chocolate emergency. Just in case.
Bag Lady and Shopping Siren do not want to alarm you, but WE MIGHT RUN OUT OF CHOCOLATE. Or we might not. Last week there were conflicting reports. One story from Bloomberg quoted candy-makers Mars and Barry Callebaut who say we’re on such a ravenous chocolate-eating tear that there could be a 2-million-ton, worldwide chocolate deficit […]
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Bliss Thru Shopping: Don’t be a turkey, Thanksgiving shortcuts rock
Confession: Shopping Siren has never cooked a full Thanksgiving meal. It’s not for lack of offering. Family members smile, pat me on the arm and say, “We’ve got it covered.” Friends start talking about previously unmentioned Thanksgiving Day trips to Antarctica. I’m starting to get a complex. But this year may be different. No one […]
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Bliss Thru Shopping: To the Batmobile! In heels!
So now Bag Lady wants to be Wonder Woman and Shopping Siren is ready to glove up and be Batman. In villain-smiting heels, of course. So many costumes beckoned as we headed out to Halloween shop this week. We’re happy, and a little surprised, to report that even at this very late date, there’s plenty […]
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Bliss Thru Shopping: You’ll never look at a lobster the same way again
Bag Lady saw the most amazing signs on a bathroom wall this week. Things of beauty. And fact. And shark pee. And then there were the near-snakes. And the red squirrels. And the you’ve-got-to-be-kidding-me spam email. It’s on! You talkin’ to me? Anyone with an Internet connection is conditioned to expect some level of email […]
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Bliss Thru Shopping: Knit, drink, dicker and be merry
There are infinite reasons to turn your wheels west over the next week. For simplicity’s sake, we’ll start with three. 1. A champion speed knitter/vintner. 2. Tony, Duke and Codfish. 3. ALL OF THE SHEEP IN MAINE. OK, we oversell. Maybe only half the sheep in Maine. Surely, that’s enough to beat feet to the […]
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Bliss Thru Shopping: It’s a good day to shop and save the world
It’s a good day when one can shop and save the world. And not just, like, “Five cents of every $200 you spend on duct tape goes to support woolly yaks in Bolivia.” Not that I have anything against Bolivia. Or woolly yaks. They are a good, deserving place/animal, but my nickel probably isn’t going […]
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Bliss Thru Shopping: Housewarming present for Gov. LePage? Only one place to shop.
Some weeks we struggle. Is there a new retailer to shop? Is there a natural theme in the news, like, we recently read that scrunchies are back — truly, scrunchies — and can we eke out 14 inches of pithy copy devoted to the lowly hair tie? Or, have the snakes been kicking up hay […]
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Bliss Thru Shopping: Super Saucy
Upon walking into Saucy Pots Cooking & Baking Supplies this week and spying a sponge labeled “walnut scrubber,” Bag Lady’s first reaction was, “You scrub walnuts?” Weird. True story. After further examination, the sponge was just infused with smithereens of walnut shells for an extra bit of scrubbing muscle. Which people who know their way […]
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Bliss Thru Shopping: All about ME, all the time: Meet the Nor-Eastah
There’s rarely a warning that your world is about to be rocked. The exact order of events, as Bag Lady can best recall: 1. Look, there’s a new local, online retailer with an adorable catchphrase: The Nor-Eastah, “Taking New England By Storm.” 2. Let’s check them out. – Retail interlude – 3. Oh. My. God. […]