Dear John, I don’t know you and you don’t know me, but I saw your note to Anne on the dry erase board at the Container Store and I’m concerned. What exactly is going on with you guys? I can only conclude by the first name basis that you and Anne are married or have […]
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Shopping Made Difficult
If there was a museum of shopping history, it would be in San Francisco. They’d have a terrible time getting permits, but it would have to be here. This city seems to have a historical revue of shopping in America, including all of the retail experiments that went awry. It’s no coincidence that the first pop-up […]
Shopping With the Upper Crust
I may have to stop saying “grocery store” and start saying “market.” I may have to stop saying, “I’m going grocery shopping” and start saying, “I will now select our week’s delicacies” in an affected, 1940s starlet accent. Because my grocery store is so hip that it deserves to be in a higher class than […]
Hey Bargain, Get Your Ass Over Here
That looks about right to me. I am not the best bargain-shopper. I’m not even in the same shopping species as my sister-in-law Debby, who can go to any store and pay a fraction of the cost for whatever, and then qualify for free gas to drive her and her booty home, where I […]
Excuse Me, But Your Perfume is Starting to Smell
I was walking around Sephora a couple nights ago, part of the shopping marathon that has started with a bang, now that my mother-in-law is here and we’ve all stopped coughing long enough to park the car at the mall. I mistakenly sprayed on some perfume. It was pretty much downhill from there. I’m […]
Goodwill Hunting
I love shopping at Goodwill. Even when I have lots of money, when I have money spilling out of my biggest purse and stuffed in all my pockets, down my bra, and in the folds of my neck. Even when I can afford to go to the Ann Taylor store in the mall or the […]