Improving oral care with Listerine and Reach
I’ve spent much time sharing with you the ways in which I scrimp and save to maintain my frugal lifestyle. But, there are some areas of my life where I don’t like to cut corners; dental care is one of them. I learned from a young age that it is important to take care of [...]
Tea travels to Bali for Spring 2012
I enjoyed the Mexico-themed clothing that Tea Collection put out last fall, and was eager to see what their next collection would entail. As you may remember, Tea plans each clothing collection around a specific destination that the designers have researched and immersed themselves in. The theme for Spring 2012 is Bali, and I was [...]
Getting Organized: #GetButtonedUp Challenge wrap-up
I did it! I successfully completed the Buttoned Up Challenge that saw me tackling a different organizational task for every single day in January. Some of the tasks were easy, some of them were tough. There were more than a few days when I almost forgot and then was tempted to let it slide when [...]
JCPenney says so long to sales
When I first started to hear about J.C. Penney’s new advertising strategy that ditches frequent sales in favor of lower regular prices, my knee-jerk reaction was “oh, brother”. I guess it’s the way that people were describing the new approach that inspired my cynicism; shoppers saw it as a kind of “perpetual sale”, where everything [...]
Rearranging a room to make it work
I know a few people who like to rearrange their furniture regularly just to change things up. I’m more set in my ways, and usually like to layout my rooms only once, unless circumstances change or something about the layout is annoying me. As I was working through week three of the organization challenge I’ve [...]