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fifty is as fifty does

The signs are everywhere that I’m getting old. sigh… I was in J Jill buying a pair of office pants last week. I already have a brown pair, but I wanted a black pair in the same style. As I paid, chatting with the lovely 60-ish salesperson, she mentioned that the company has recently changed [...]

but it was on sale

Dear Self: You do realize that NEXT WEEK is Thanksgiving?  Like 10 days from now?  Because you were going to buy and wrap all the gifts for our in-laws and nephews so we could schlep them up at Thanksgiving, rather than pay a gazillion dollars to ship them.  But that was when Thanksgiving was like, months away…and now it’s not. I thought you had TIME [...]

reverse shopping

One of my favorite books of all time is Angels by Marian Keyes.  Although all her books are amazing, engrossing comfort reads, I have read this one more times than I can count.  This book’s main character, Maggie, reverse shops  and it’s where I first heard the term.  You know how you’re in the dressing room, and [...]

monday shopping randomness

Prologue:  I’ve been bad blogger.  No really, sucky for the last month or so.  I haven’t updated because I am pregnant enough that I’m sick of talking about it, but what else is there at this stage?  I’m sick of people asking me if I have a baby name – NO.   I don’t want to admit [...]