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Why? Just why? Why use a slim model to flog plus size clothes? {image from here} I think I’m still a little shell shocked from checking in at one of my fave online shopping stores this morning, in fact I’ll be doing well to scrape my jaw from up off the floor after spying this [...]

An easy office Christmas gift idea Office Christmas gift idea – easy-peasy! There are a few people that I work closely with during the year and each Christmas it’s nice to celebrate the year that’s been with a little gift. Nothing over the top, nothing super fancy but something that says “thanks for the year [...]

Bargain Books for Santa’s Sack   A bargain book = perfect gift! Disclaimer: This is not a sponsored post – I’m just a happy customer sharing the shopping love :) I’m a big lover of reading. I read daily and make sure that the kids do too as it’s so very important. Books, books, more books, never enough [...]

Today we had a garage sale at our place. Holy moly, it’s a hard day’s work. I. Am. Knackered. I do indeed believe though that I have become a little wiser in the ways of this backyard market economy. Here is a rundown of what I have learnt …. Any garage sale, worth it’s weight in [...]

Holy Crap, time is flying! For me, the start of September signals that it’s time. This weekend, I’ll be making a list and checking it twice. Christmas shopping can then start in earnest. Please don’t misunderstand, I’m not really a ho-ho-ho Christmassy type of person. I’m just not. In my books the one thing worse [...]

  {Jonathan Jones via Compfight} Despite the (intended) pun of this post’s title, the power bill I paid this week was just NOT funny. It sucked. All $835 and some coins of it sucked. There’s  a lot of loaves of bread or more importantly quite a few bottles of wine invested isn’t there? Although I’ve heard [...]