There’s the kids’ teachers, the mail person, the garbage person, the person who lets your cats out when you’re traveling/hospitalized/incarcerated, Peter down the hall, Peter down the hall’s kids, your favorite barista, your office secret Santa. It’s that time of year for giving lots of littles. So let’s spend a little, too. In a Bliss-first […]
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Bliss Thru Shopping: Mainely awesome
Oprah Winfrey has fabulous taste, obviously — she’s flipping Oprah. So when her magazine came out with Oprah’s Favorite Things 2018, we went ooh. Then ahh. Then, wow. Because we’d love to buy a cool-looking electric bike if we had $1,800 and winter wasn’t coming in, like, 20 minutes. But we also got to thinking […]
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Bliss Thru Shopping: Rumford and What Not
It’s been a while since Shopping Siren has been shopping in Rumford. Like, way back then, Congress Street was in one solid piece. And there was no pond in the middle of the road. Ahh, the good old days. But while a lot is changing in Rumford, there’s still a little shop near the […]
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Bliss Thru Shopping: Halloween happiness
We were recently delighted to discover that a Spirit Halloween store had temporarily popped up next to Shaw’s in Auburn. And then we went inside. Make that delight on steroids. The store’s amazing, full and fleeting — we can’t imagine it’ll still be here in another month, which means it’s to be savored now, like […]
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Bliss Thru Shopping: Editor's note
Bliss Thru Shopping will appear next week, as soon as Bag Lady and Shopping Siren return from an extreme couponing/leaf peeping/early Christmas shopping road trip.
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Bliss Thru Shopping: How to celebrate National Singles Week
So it’s National Singles Week next week and we can’t help but think there’s a strong case to be made for celebrating singledom. See as evidence: “Married at First Sight.” “90 Day Fiance.” The imagined horror of being married to a too-chipper “Property Brothers” brother who wears tighter jeans than you do. Now how to […]
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Bliss Thru Shopping: All the supplies, none of the school
This time of year, Shopping Siren still gets chills walking through office supply stores. Which, considering this week’s heat, is a feat. There’s something about the smell of fresh crayons and paper. Or maybe it’s the rainbow of colorful folders or the boxes of spiral notebooks covered with photos of fluffy kittens or cartoons of […]
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Bliss Thru Shopping: Chips gone wild
Bag Lady and Shopping Siren were, like everyone, intrigued by Lay’s limited-edition New England Lobster Roll potato chips. How lobstery would they be? How buttery? How … on earth did someone decide this should be a thing? We were eager to try. For the column’s sake. Because we are professionals who care about bringing you […]
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Bliss Thru Shopping: Postponed
Editor’s note: Bag Lady and Shopping Siren are off this week enjoying the fantasy of a refreshing trip to Anchorage, Alaska, where it is 68 degrees and much less than 100 percent humidity. They will be back next week, cool, calm and ready to dish. (Literally, they will require dishes for their shopping adventure.)
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Bliss Thru Shopping: Random acts of Dunkin' and other lovely things
Strangers are getting married on television AND they are buying Bag Lady frozen coffee! Probably not the same strangers, but what if they are? That, my shopping friends, would be magical. Either way, given that and discovering there is such a thing as the Jumping Frenchmen of Maine disorder, it has been a heck of a week. […]