Just to put it out there, we’re not like Oprah in many, many ways — that’s a high fabulousity bar to set — but we, too, have Favorite Things. Things that make us laugh. Things that make us feel cozy. Things that make cleaning the toilet 95 percent less awful — and heck yeah, that’s […]
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Bliss Thru Shopping: 'Stranger Things' things
For the longest time, Shopping Siren resisted the pull of “Stranger Things.” She didn’t have Netflix and didn’t feel inclined to get it just for one show. Even if everyone was raving about that one show. Even if Bag Lady was one of the people doing the raving. Eventually — read: last week — Shopping […]
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Bliss Thru Shopping: Farewell, Drapeau's
If you ever needed to dress like Big Bird — for whatever reason — chances are you went to Drapeau’s Costumes. Same for Santa suits and period theater costumes. That Star Trek convention you don’t talk about. And Halloween. Oh, so many Halloweens. Alas, soon no more. After more than 60 years of pantaloons […]
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Bliss Thru Shopping: TV or not TV, that is the question
Shopping Siren has always adored everything about cable, from the corded remote control tethered to her childhood TV to the green slime slopped across Nickelodeon shows. My love affair with “Doctor Who” happened because of cable. So, too, my enchantment with cooking battles and Lifetime movies, ancient aliens and decorating shows in which neighbors wreck — […]
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Bliss Thru Shopping: Rolling with it
Between Bag Lady and Shopping Siren, we have three hairy pets, two little black dresses and one burning question: What the %$!@ is wrong with this lint roller? Seriously. We’re pretty sure it adds fur when it’s supposed to be taking it away. After years of silently cursing and aggressively rolling ourselves, we finally decided […]
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Bliss Thru Shopping: Fluff, Moxie, whoopie pies — we do Maine right
So Bag Lady and Shopping Siren are doing some entertaining this summer. Mostly, only of people we like. (It’s a small number.) If guests are arriving from out of state and we’ve decided we enjoy their company enough to let them use the off-limits-to-people-who-live-here fancy hand towel in the bathroom, to empty the fridge of […]
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Bliss Thru Shopping: Bridgton or bust
Pop quiz: It’s 95 degrees out and 100 percent humidity. What do you do? What do you do? Well, if you’re Shopping Siren, you drape yourself across a broken air conditioner and suck on rapidly melting ice cubes. This is not recommended. If you’re anyone else — say, for example, you — you head to […]
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Bliss Thru Shopping: Wayfair away
Apologies in advance for the jingle. You know, the one that tells you Wayfair’s got just what you need. It sticks in your head. And then, based on the commercial, a dance party ensues. Because that’s what online shopping needs. Dance parties. We at Bliss usually stay away from the online-only big guys, but Wayfair.com […]
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Bliss Thru Shopping: Chicken envy
Full disclosure: We originally walked into the Tractor Supply Co. two weeks ago looking for a welcome mat. Instead we found a slew of 6-foot-tall metal roosters, their 6-inch-shorter girlfriends and child-size Batman gardening gloves and watering cans. So here we are. We’ve been to Tractor Supply before, when it first opened on Lisbon Street […]
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Bliss Thru Shopping: Just walk all over us
A welcome mat is sort of like underwear for your house. Now just hear us out. It sets a tone. (Perky? All business?) It conveys a message, sometimes literally (“Hello!”), sometimes implied by its sorry state (Go ahead, track mud inside! I don’t give a flipping flip!). And when it’s missing, it’s just … weird. Uncomfortable. […]