So, you are planning on getting a brand-new mattress soon, but it is not quite sure where to start looking. While you can go to your local home depot to look for a bed, you might find their selection to be extremely limited. What if you can’t decide on the available range that they have […]
When shopping, there are items that you came to buy in the first place, and then there are items that you want to have. And then there are items that you did not even know you wanted, but you ended up buying anyway. If this happens to you, you probably know that you can easily […]
There’s something about large groups of femmey, gregarious women that makes me feel like I’m perennially choking on my own nervous snot. It’s not the whole queermo thing, because I react to being surrounded by attractive men by becoming almost aggressively casual. It’s more that finding myself swept up in a crowd of giggling, nice-smelling […]
The wildly popular website Zen Habits debuted in 2007. Miss Minimalist started blogging in 2009, and The Minimalists followed in 2010. There’s a subreddit each for minimalism, anti-consumption, and decluttering. There’s also one for tiny houses, and if you happen to downsize to the point that you can fit in 160 square feet or less, you […]
The summer is long behind us, but don’t mourn because the Holiday season is near. It is time to start preparing for Christmas day, meaning that you need a lot of stuff to pull out of your closet or you will need to go shopping. It is a good idea to prepare early because you […]
It’s November already, which means that the time of big shopping is approaching. With the boom of online and offline commerce around the world, most countries have embraced the sacred American tradition of arranging two days of grand discounts – Black Friday and Cyber Monday, both coming after the Thanksgiving Day celebration. But before you […]
Happy Black Friday everyone! Hope your Thanksgiving was fabulous and fattening and as devoid of family drama as possible. It is a straight up miracle that I was not up and out of bed this morning at 4 a.m., ready to raid the stores like the shopaholic that I am. But you know? I had an […]
I learned about sweatshops towards the end of junior high and I remember being deeply troubled. A burgeoning activist, I decided to boycott all clothing stores that sold products made in sweatshops. A quick AOL internet search (#old) revealed that my boycott would actually be incredibly difficult — if not impossible — given that I […]
A few months ago, I decided on a whim that I would get my holiday shopping done early, and I’m so glad I did. I tend to be somewhat of a last-minute gift shopper, and when the idea to shop early popped into my head I wanted to make a silly little challenge with myself to see […]
