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Debit Card Don'ts For The Holidays

Image Source Everywhere you turn these days, you hear warnings about proper credit card use. With the holidays right around the corner, these warnings are becoming even more frequent. One commonly suggested alternative…
20 Tips to Help Stay Within Your Holiday Budget

From our friends over at Billshrink.com, check out this incredibly thorough list of tips to keep us from breaking the bank this holiday season. For the original post, click here. We admit it: much advice about holiday s…
Let's Get Some Shoes

Image Source The New York Times published an article yesterday about how shoe sales are up in spite of the recession. Sales in September and October increased, respectively, 7.8 and 7.9 percent over the same periods…
Ikea: Mission Impossible?

Since my boyfriend (and all his stuff!) has shown up at my one-bedroom apartment, we've been in desperate need of more storage for all of his cables, games, guitars. While I have a great walk-in closet in the bedroom,…
Can Advertisers Change the Way We Do... Stuff?

Image Source I say "do stuff" because the topic at hand is hardly dinner-table appropriate, but here goes: toilet paper. Or actually, toilet wipes. The New York Times published an article Monday about how the makers…
Retailers Continue to Rely on Catalogs

Image Source Reading about mail-order catalogs in The Wall Street Journal reminded me of the slogan for Dunder Mifflin Infinity (à la The Office): "Limitless paper in a paperless world." That's basically the philosop…
Shabby Chic: Comfortable Furniture for Uncomfortable Times

Image Source The New York Times published an article yesterday about Shabby Chic, a brand of oversized, slip-covered furniture that had its heyday during the country's last recession. The company actually filed for…
Holiday Shopping… Already?!

If you’re on a tight budget like me, I’d suggest shopping for holiday presents early. When I say early… I mean months ago. Some people may think it is a ridiculous idea to be shopping to early; however, many stores a…
Female Purchasing Power

Image Source The Los Angeles Times recently printed an interesting review of two books exploring the growing spending power of women, and what retailers can do to harness that power. The first is Why She Buys, a ligh…
Holiday Forecrast: Grim, Yet Classic

Image Source The holiday shopping season is just around the corner, I've got good news and bad news. The bad: Consumers, like last year, are unlikely to splurge come Christmas. The good: Unlike last year, merchants h…