Flitting Past the Crowds

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I think I’ve made it pretty clear that I prefer shopping online to fighting crowds. (Especially if I get free shipping.) But sometimes – especially when shopping for clothes – locating the right item online can be frustrating. I know…

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Black Friday Warning

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I have been literally pelted with announcements, predictions, and analysis of the year’s biggest shopping day – Black Friday, upcoming on Friday – and the year’s biggest online shopping day –CyberMonday, upcoming the Monday after turkey Day. This herd behavior…

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Grocery Shopping from My Desk

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I’ve been trying to find time all week to go to Costco but haven’t managed it. So I thought this might be a good time to try out Alice.com. This grocery shopping site launched earlier this year, offers free shipping…

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A Day in the Life of My Wallet

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8 am: “Mom, can I have some cash to buy a snack at school?” ($5) 3 pm: “Will you buy me some new shorts? These are dorky?” ($30) 3:30 pm: “Let’s get ice-cream!” ($10) 4 pm: “I just downloaded a…

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Can I Get Paid to Shop Online?

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I have a long list of back-to-school supplies pinned to my bulletin board. I love to shop online but I usually haul the kids to Target and let them paw through the bins and select their own binders, pens, and…

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Ten Seconds to a Lower Price

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This has been one crazy, busy week. And now it’s Friday and I just want to put my overtaxed brain on ice. But I have been neglecting my GGFs here all week so, before I do that, I want to…

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That Darn Fridge!

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I have been writing about online shopping since the idea was pretty new. So over the years, I have bought just about everything online – either for myself or as research for an article: Jewelry, underwear, furniture, toys, cars, computers,…

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Save Money by Shopping Online

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I am seriously into online shopping. I don’t mean that I buy a lot of junk I don’t need – at least not any more than any other overworked Mom on a budget. I buy everything I can – that…

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Baubles for Mom

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Is it too predictable to say that if I were buying me a Mother’s Day present, I’d get me jewelry? Well, I would. And I know where I’d buy it, too. So here are a few of my favorite places…

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Procrastinator’s Shopping List

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Every year, just when it’s too late to do anything about it, I realize I have forgotten someone on my gift list. Inevitably this is someone who lives too far away for me to ship a gift to them in…

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