So. Valentine’s Day is Sunday. We’re sure you knew that. We’re also sure you’re ready, what with the chocolates and roses and wine and reservations at a romantic restaurant and the two tickets to Cabo San Lucas you stashed in your sock drawer. You know, the things you got weeks ago in preparation for a […]
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Bliss Thru Shopping: Exit 80 dreamin’
So, we have several questions keeping us up at night. Why is everyone so excited about “Making a Murderer?” Why is the neighbor target practicing at all hours? And what the heck is going in at Exit 80? The last, at least, we can dig our retail-happy hooks into. Since news broke last month that […]
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Bliss Thru Shopping: Counting the days
Shopping Siren can sum up her love of the New Year in one word: Calendars. Do I want my 2016 to be rough and tumble with puppies or cute and sweet with flower gardens? Do I want to laugh every day or learn something new? Should I geek out with superheros or go zen with […]
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Bliss Thru Shopping: Cup o’ joy
We weren’t sure what to make of the caffeinated madness that roiled last week when Starbucks unveiled its new holiday coffee cup to immediate scorn. ONLY red and green? How dare they! Bag Lady and Shopping Siren were both fairly convinced it was going to be revealed as a fake-news story from The Onion. But, […]
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Bliss Thru Shopping: Got your back
It’s official: Shopping Siren is getting old. I hurt my back. Doing nothing. Well, that’s not true. I was sitting on the floor. And then I got up. Which is, technically, doing something, but not something that should lead to a weeklong backache. If I had been, you know, executing a stunning double-back-handspring while warding […]
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Bliss Thru Shopping: The best of boot worlds
After a lifetime in Maine, what with the snow and ice and cold and need to look stylish through it all, Bag Lady and Shopping Siren have honed a working definition of a great boot: It looks good with at least half a dozen outfits. It keeps your feet dry in an inch of snow. […]
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Bliss Thru Shopping: Everybody loves Amy
Bag Lady and Shopping Siren heart (EXTRA LARGE HEART) Amy Poehler. And we’re hardly alone. The actress/comedian/author is funny, talented, relatable, and homegirl is everywhere right now. Earlier this year, Poehler wrapped up an amazing seven-year run on NBC’s “Parks and Recreation.” (Ben plus Leslie 4 eva!) This summer she starred in “Inside Out” and […]
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Bliss Thru Shopping: Two’s company
First runner-up Miss Virginia. American Pharoah, this last time. Dreamy Jimmy Garoppolo, the man who would have been New England Patriots quarterback this week if Tom Brady had stayed deflategated. There’s something to be said for the No. 2 spot. Namely, it’s not so bad. You’re so close to No. 1! Keep striving! You’re handsome […]
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Bliss Thru Shopping: Let’s do lunch
When Shopping Siren was but a shopping girl, she loved the back-to-school season. Should she get the Trapper Keeper with a tiger on it or the one with a hot-air balloon? The blue pencil box or the red one? Fat markers or thin? It was a shopping girl’s dream. But as important as those school-supply […]
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Bliss Thru Shopping: Read it, watch it, hear it! Our summer picks.
First, Bag Lady has to apologize, profusely. She didn’t tell you how amazing the Netflix series “Wet Hot American Summer” is sooner because she didn’t know. Maybe you don’t know, either. That ends now. The show — and Bag Lady’s insistence that Shopping Siren start watching it NOW. But she was in the middle of […]