Posts under ‘shopping’

Until a few years ago, I bought the stores out for my four kids. Then they had their own families and four became twelve more or less (depending on the year). I developed a new shopping strategy two gifts per person. Frugal me decided to shop early and start buying for the following [...]

If you read my blog about TJ Maxx, you know all about spending 2009.
I pray 2010 will be better.
I left TJ Maxx to go to Marshalls about a mile away. I still had a gift card in my pocketbook to use, and I intended to use it both wisely and well. Marshalls [...]

No doubt about it that money is tight. I usually avoid the pricey malls but found myself in the local one the week of Black Friday. It was dead I am tempted to say deader than Marley in A Christmas Carol. A couple of days later I had to make an exchange [...]

In my day. the guiding principle was “Father knows best”; however, in 2009 best means fully informed.
With the grandchildren ranging from toddler to teen, I must always be on the lookout for the perfect toy. I define perfect as something the child will actually play with, something that is well-made, and something that is [...]

When I was still a child myself, I saw a picture of a freeway in the paper. That awesome engineering feat amazed me then. It still amazes me now. There is a song what goes, “Only in America”. Well, only in California do freeways go everywhere and anywhere. The overpasses [...]

I have been to the West Coast almost annually for the last twenty years. I love its weather. I love its attractions. I love its clothes.
If you are not a California native, you probably don’t realize that its fashions and styles are in the stores usually months before they arrive in the East. From the [...]

Hubby again asked me what I want for Christmas. After some thought, I told him a couple of CD’s, DVD’s, and books. I left out a Broadway show because he gave me one years ago that I can’t cash in on. Hubby just hates going into the city so I lose out.
Black Friday daughter Bunny [...]