We’ve avoided the topic long enough. It’s time to talk “Duck Dynasty.” Bag Lady’s first encounter with the mega-hit A&E reality series was in Walmart a few months back when the entire photo studio had been taken over by racks of curious, camo’d merch. Shopping Siren first caught a glimpse on TV of a few […]
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Bliss Thru Shopping: Ship shop
Hey, here’s something to wig out about: There are only eight Saturdays until Christmas. I nearly dropped my fun-sized Halloween Snickers bar when I heard that. Not because there are only eight weekends left to shop, but because there are only eight weekends left to ship. Shopping Siren, you might guess by the name, is […]
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Bliss Thru Shopping: On the prowl for purrfection
The Internet: 10 percent information, 10 percent shopping. Eighty percent cat videos. We’re pretty certain that’s the precise breakdown. Someone’s probably done a study to confirm this, but we’re too busy watching Maru, Keyboard Cat and Grumpy Cat right now to find it. So you’ll just have to trust us. (Or try Googling “cat videos,” […]
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Bliss Thru Shopping: Bicycle dreams: Flying downhill with wind in your hair
Shopping Siren got the urge the other day to do something she hasn’t done since she was 19. Ride a bike. It was one of those warm, sunny, slightly breezy, gloriously humid-free days we’re lucky enough to get this time of year. And all I could think was that this shiny half-summer, half-fall afternoon would […]
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Bliss Thru Shopping: Antique this
Life lesson no. 37: At some point your childhood playthings become antiques. And it will happen sooner than you think. Well, you know, not ours. No way. For example, we definitely did not just stumble upon our favorite curly-haired plastic-and-fabric dolls at the new Grannie Mae Antiques & Fine Home Furnishings in Lewiston. Nope. We’re […]
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Bliss Thru Shopping: All your shark-shopping needs, and theme music too
They cavort and canoodle and subsist on marshmallows and brie. And somewhere a literary agent has written in red ink and capital letters across the first page: “NEEDS MORE SHARK.” And that is pretty much how we feel about a lot of things. There’s been no better time to be on the shark bandwagon. We […]