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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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: 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: May the Fourth be with you, and make it a party
So, you’re a country. And it’s your birthday. Hypothetically. You’ll be a grand 238 years old next week. (And you don’t look a day over 29, by the way.) To celebrate, you want people to: A) Party a little. B) Party a lot. C) Party until the sky explodes in color. Shopping Siren’s pretty sure […]
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Bliss Thru Shopping: Must-do for mustaches
Last week, for the very first time, Mark LaFlamme basked in the presence of Ed Barrett’s mustache. It was, to quote, “glorious.” We are quoting LaFlamme here, not the ‘stache. Though if it could talk, the city administrator’s facial hair might order a lime rickey, comment on the weather and compliment the crime reporter on […]