Save Your Money for Chocolates
If you want to put your man in the mood for romance and impress him with your feminine charm, consider some really good chocolates. Do not fall for products advertised on the internet that try to fix what ain’t broken. In the tradition of drug companies that brew up all kinds of drugs that don’t [...]
Slice Off Their Tax Exemption
Graduate student Cynthia Magnus found bags of clothes destroyed and trashed by H&M and Wal Mart. “Gloves with the fingers cut off,” Ms. Magnus said, reciting the inventory of ruined items. “Warm socks. Cute patent leather Mary Jane school shoes, maybe for fourth graders, with the instep cut up with a scissor. Men’s jackets, slashed [...]
Educate Yourself to Protect Your Body: Personal Care Products May Contain Toxins
Non-Toxic Personal Products that you can Eat
Happy Holidays
Merchants, who are in the business of selling things, like to extend a general expression of goodwill and Season’s Greetings, hoping to get people into a good and buying mood. There are several religious holidays that fall around the Winter Solstice. You’d think it would be safe to wish your customers a happy one, but [...]
Black Friday
I spent it not shopping. That felt good. Most days I spend not shopping, but knowing I was supposed to be lining up in a mall somewhere on the day after Thanksgiving and resisting the pressure gave me a delightful sense of transgression. I don’t get much of that these days. Maybe I’ll not shop [...]
Bicycling Past ‘Whole Paycheck’
I was hooked on convenience, but this news prompts me to do what I knew was right anyway–shop local, shop small and keep our Rhode Island businesses open so that we have alternatives to the big national chains.
Just Say NO to Telemarketers
Our phone traffic has reached a critical point where most of the callers are telemarketers.
The Clothes of Our Lives
Happy Valentine’s Day to all the lovers out there, myself and my husband included. This year for Valentine’s Day, I treated myself to an hour of cleaning out my clothes closet, deciding on things I could let go. There was a lot. When I was in my 20′s and living on the East Side of [...]
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