My Junk is Your Junk if You Pay Me For It

I have a lot of useless junk in my house and I want to have money to buy new better junk that won’t become useless for at least another 5 minutes. I enjoy sorting through my junk multiple times and then sitting around all day trying to convince strangers that it has great worth [...]

Filed under: around town, domesticality, fashion, shopping, technology

A Consuming Problem

I love to buy stuff. I know you can’t buy happiness but I truly am very happy most of the time when I’m shopping. It feels good to find a “treasure,” snag it for my very own and then have the power to purchase it. Now if I can get that treasure [...]

Filed under: earth day, poser in granolaville, shopping

Six Dollar Shoes

Here’s my sister wearing the extra pair. A perfect size 10.

Filed under: shopping

Consumer Motivation

I bought these because they are unsulphured and unsweetened.

I bought these because they are made from BLUE CORN, which is corn that is BLUE. The chips may not be a whole food, but they only have 3 ingredients and I can count that high.

I bought this because a little good sharp cheddar goes a [...]

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Poser in Granolaville

Last November around Thanksgiving I found myself in the Whole Body section of Whole Foods, wearing a beret I had crocheted by hand. The hat was supposed to be a present for my little sister for Christmas but it wasn’t Christmas yet and I thought I’d test it for fiber-poisoning, while covering my greasy [...]

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Attention Costco Stalkers

I know what you’re doing. I’ve done it myself… repeatedly. The thing is – I’m much better at it than you are. If I were currently stalking someone for their Costco parking spot, I would not choose the mother with two small children pushing a cart overflowing with groceries. I would [...]

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The Family Shopping Trip

I woke up this morning feeling slightly less plagued by the raging viral plague of death than I have for the past few days, feeling so well in fact that I even showered, wore clothes (of a sort), went to the gym and did some grocery shopping. It was a glorious day to be [...]

Filed under: family fun, kid stuff, near-death, shopping

Ty’s Toy Giveaway – AKA – This is About a Giant Miffy

When I got a message in my inbox with the subject line – Re: This is About a Giant Miffy – my first thought was that it was a creatively euphemized inappropriate spam email. Then I noticed it came from my beloved Mir so I decided to keep reading about this here Giant Miffy. [...]

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Problem Solved

I have a problem. Every 10 or 12 years, I prepare and serve a platter of festive deviled eggs. Periodically, I’d say at least one of every two times I make them every 10 or 12 years, one or two of the eggs will roll over, bumping into other eggs and ruining their [...]

Filed under: holidays, shopping

Retail Death March

For 7 hours we drove around getting further and further from home. If we’re already in Redmond, we might as well go to the mall in Bellevue. If we’re already in Bellevue, we might as well drive 15 more miles to IKEA. While we’re so close to the airport, I might as well take the [...]

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