Just Stop
I have found the secret to having the perfect home – always ready for company – even the grandmother visiting or boss’s boss coming to dinner kind of company. Are you ready? Just stop bringing things into the house. That’s Read More …
Author: Dawn aka Hat Girl
Once A Year
Just once a year we are permitted to go a little crazy and shop more than we should. Since this frenzy is an entirely unpredictable amount of volume, retailers can have trouble forecasting. Demand Time for fulfillment; and, as mentioned Read More …
Believe Me
Spent a little bit of time to order some personalized gifts today – online. Easy-peasy, right? No and believe me, it was even more complicated as it went…and shockingly so. How hard can it be these days to order online? Read More …
Re-Stocking
One of the hazards of Christmas impulse shopping and abandoned carts from Black Friday is re-stocking. Online, such is the case with Cyber Monday, this is not so much of a worry. It didn’t actually get pulled off the shelf Read More …
So Smooth
Many, many things are promoted as being so smooth as to encourage you to just sit back and enjoy them. Your man’s close-shaved face Cashmere Babies bottoms Your aunt’s cheek, offered for a kiss on family holidays Velvet dresses Long, Read More …
Making Room
Being either ahead or behind the rest of the world, we are just tonight, making room for our Christmas Tree. For us, this is way (way) ahead of schedule, but after receiving my Christmas present 3 weeks early I guess Read More …
Worth Waiting
In every way, it was worth waiting to see this band I missed in 1990. I’d bought tickets to see Fleetwood Mac because of the opening act – a little on again, off again punk rock band – Squeeze. After hearing Read More …
We Believe
We believe… the bell rings and you see it. Santa Clause Easter Bunny Tooth Fairy Great Pumpkin Did you hear the bell ring? What a brilliant marketing strategy that was. We believe what we want to believe. Santa came to Read More …
It Doesn’t Exist
Rather than not actually being for sale, it is worse when it doesn’t exist. So, get on it all you clever inventors, you entrepreneurs who have the brilliant ideas. There are things out there that we want to have in Read More …
Not For Sale
When I was in college, home from school for break, working to earn as much as I could…I was stuck driving my dad’s antique boat of a car. For those interested it was a 1967 Crown Imperial (in essentially mint Read More …