Category: Retail Therapy

A Bitingly Weird V-Day Gift Round-up

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When searching for any Valentine gift, weird or otherwise, it’s hard to avoid the culinary component. We’ve already established that there’s a chocolate representation to be found out there for just about anything, and a Valentine representation for all sorts of foods: pickles, jerky, and ketchup among them. But the annual Weird Valentines Gifts post … Continue reading A Bitingly Weird V-Day Gift Round-up

Blogtober Fashion-spotting

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Do you remember those fashion-on-the-street features in the back pages of mags like Cosmopolitan and Marie Clare? The ones in which “good fashion” was represented by smiling, seemingly surprised women and “bad fashion” was lightly disguised with skinny black bars over the eyes of the beholden? Inspired by those throwbacks but also hoping to put … Continue reading Blogtober Fashion-spotting

Show Me You’re a Disney Fan Without *Showing* Me You’re a Disney Fan

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In my child- and teen-hood, showing your Disney pride was all very obvious. Now, however, the savvy product-designers of the world have introduced a new Disney aesthetic.

Local Love: V-Day Gift Options from the Berkshires

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Earlier this week I found myself on medical leave in the middle of a snow storm in the middle of a pandemic, and feeling a threefold-level of boredom. To quell the ennui, I decided to share a few cool Valentine gift ideas local to where I live on my Insta-stories, and the result is a … Continue reading Local Love: V-Day Gift Options from the Berkshires

The Weird V-Day Gift List of 2021!

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I look forward to compiling the Weird Valentines Day gift list each year — for the benefit of no one in particular. It’s just fun for me to hunt for the strange and unusual and share it here, and there’s something to be said for consistency; this is year seven! There’s no real theme to … Continue reading The Weird V-Day Gift List of 2021!