I made one of my rare pilgrimages to Sam's Club yesterday. I can only go there every so often as it takes a couple of months for us to run through the over-sized quantities we buy. Everything is big because, make no mistake about it, at Sam's Club size really matters and more is definitely [...]
Tag: Shopping
…when hell freezes over.
Do you know that saying...the one which starts with any number of things and ends with "when hell freezes over"? I have used it a few dozen times in my lifetime (give or take another few dozen times). This notion that hell freezing over would change the world so much that we would do something [...]
My Super Bowl strategy…
The time is ever so near. Only two more days until the Super Bowl of shopping is here – Black Friday. I have been getting teaser ads via email for weeks. Today I received an email from Toys R’ Us that said stores will be opening at 12 AM on Friday. And here I thought [...]
Two types of people in the world…
This morning I was reading my friend’s blog about her shopping adventures – actually it was more of a quest for a lemon yellow blouse and her lament that after her intensive shopping effort she found when she got home that she didn’t like the fit of the collection of items she had picked up [...]
Beware the taste-testing booth and begging children…
I am susceptible to influence - particularly food influence…which is why I hate being at the store on taste-testing day. You cannot covet that which you know nothing of. That is helpful to the easily influenced - what you don’t know can’t fatten you. I think market research must show that these taste-testing booths greatly [...]
The power of plaid…
Yesterday afternoon and evening my youngest daughter, Cheyenne, and I went shoe shopping. During this process I learned that the days of tennis shoes, thongs and boots being the sum total of acceptable footwear are gone. In addition to the many shoes she considered that were not in the above three categories during this shoe [...]
The Monthly “Visit”
Well there it was again, like clockwork – that time of the month had arrived again all too soon. I absolutely dread it and I am so happy when it is over because I know I have a whole month before I’ll have to experience it again. But what can I really do about it…it [...]
THE NEW FORTY 