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A few weeks ago I found myself at Lowe’s searching for a rubber thingy to fix a tilting vanity mirror. My severe inability to express myself in describing what I needed hampered me from finding the rubber thingy and resulted in purchase of several might-work-if-you-can’t-find-me-a-rubber-thingy things.  Even after I MacGuyver all these things together I’m pretty [...]

taking a turn through Target

Alternate title: a conspiracy theory on the corporate machine that is Target. I saw some cute ballet flats in the Sunday Target circular yesterday. And because the pregnancy-water-retention fun has caused not only carpal tunnel in my wrists but swelling of my feet, none of my shoes fit. So the trip to try on said [...]

a holiday lesson for us all

Yesterday I renewed my vow to not shop at any major stores until after the holidays. I ordered an external hard drive to back up our old computer online and for some stupid reason decided to use the in-store pickup option. If you aren’t ordering something that you’re pretty damn excited about and don’t intend [...]

bigfoot shops at the gap

This weekend the whole family ventured to the outlet mall. Whereas most outlet malls are shopping mirages in gigantic deserts of parking lot, and if you park on the outskirts of the lot its a good mile to the store, this outlet mall is the opposite. It has the parking equivalent of your driveway. Around [...]