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Category Archives: Shopping & Necessities
IKEA washcloths have little loops so you can hang them up. Brilliant.
I’ve written about the IKEA experience before, but I continue to be amazed at the scale and cheerfulness of the place. It is still like crossing a big country covered in forests of brightly colored plastic storage bins and coffee tables made of blond wood. Every item sold in the place has a name, presumably [...]
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Vote YES for BookTithe
I can’t be the only lover contemplating sneaking out on my beloved. Some of you other book-lovers share my guilty fantasizing about getting a Kindle. Right? Like you, I’m sold on the technology, which I could get either as the Kindle proper or as an iPhone ap. What could be cooler than deciding I want [...]
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Businesses behaving badly (updated, again)
There’s a bad behavior pattern cropping up in business dealings these days: management or owners taking cover behind tough economic times when they cut workers off at the knees. Three examples are rolling around in my head, one big and well reported, the other two are smaller. A New York Times story by Nick Bunkley [...]
The Macy’s bomb
First, let me assure you that you are not alone if you are just now figuring out that your credit cards are touchy little bombs, ticking away in your wallet and ready to blow no matter how careful you are. In the past the only way to know how these cards worked was to read [...]
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Mourning the mail
I’m not sorry to see the holidays in the rear-view mirror, but I will miss the season’s mail-order catalogs. Along about September, my mailbox began to fill with those ever-smiling, smartly dressed families. These folks live in spacious, well-appointed homes and they have everything, absolutely everything: puppies on monogrammed dog beds, log-filled fireplaces, backyard ski [...]
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Admiring a master
I found myself at the nearby enormous Fred Meyer store on Christmas Eve morning, something I would normally avoid like a hot-tub full of Republicans. But my watch battery died and that night’s cake recipe called for chocolate chips…and Freddy’s is the place where one can find both necessities. In fact, this particular store is [...]
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e-ponderings
David Pogue, possibly the only person on the planet who can write about using the shift key on your iMac and make it sound fun, raises provocative stuff in a recent blog post. Pogue of course is the genius behind the books, blogs, articles and podcasts on Apple products and other goods in the computer [...]
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Winter coats (and boots?) for the herd
A lovely ad on the back of Sunday’s New York Times Style Magazine may have solved our ambivalence toward animals once and for all. We want them to have a nice life–including a view and space to run around–right up until we kill and eat them. A woman wearing a fur coat is treated as [...]
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“A (huge) jug of wine, a (giant) loaf of bread, and thou…”
Some big dogs can learn new tricks, to wit: Costco has agreed to accept food stamps at most of its locations. This is very good news. At first the giant warehouse store (headquartered in Issaquah, Washington) said no to the idea, assuming the $50 annual fee was too much of a deterrent to people getting [...]
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How dry I am
Here at Type Like the Wind, we’re very cautious about product endorsement. It’s a big responsibility, as well as a slippery slope. One glowing review here, another one there and — bam! Next thing you know, I’m sitting here with my PJs covered with brand logos, like a NASCAR driver. Yet there are some products [...]
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Taking it on the chin
I keep hearing and reading that tough economic times mean much lower profits for luxury and cosmetic services. This is good news for the little people: On the off chance that one of us gets called for a job interview, we can get a chic new haircut at the last minute, in time to sit [...]
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The (under) Wire
I took a wrong turn at the mall yesterday and instead of the Apple Store, I found myself in the Semi-Annual Sale at Victoria’s Secret. Wow. The place is an estrogen tsunami: dozens of women swarming over sale bins, yanking out pink, purple, black, brown, green and ivory bras and waving them like flags. (God [...]
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You read it here first
I don’t want to brag, but I did think up the idea of pump toothpaste about a year before Colgate introduced this wildly successful product. Sadly, I sent my letter to them regular mail, not registered, so my chance at millions of dollars evaporated. I did what any inventor worth her notepad does: I picked [...]
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Delta’s new Visa card sure makes me want to fly their airline. You?