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Last Minute Mother’s Day Gifts

May 6, 2010
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Last Minute Mother’s Day Gifts

In search of some last minute Mother’s Day gifts?
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2 Sentence Review: Wal-Mart’s Green Efforts

April 21, 2010
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2 Sentence Review: Wal-Mart’s Green Efforts

Oh, thank you so much, truck driver with a heart of gold who is always looking for “better routes” to save energy costs and bring the savings back to us, the customers.  This would all be so much more honorable and heartwarming if I hadn’t seen you on a Wrangler Jeans commercial 20 minutes...
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Confessions from a Blue Dress Comparison Shopper

August 4, 2009
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Confessions from a Blue Dress Comparison Shopper

The $1200 dress certainly has nice style. But, dare I say it?  When compared through recession-colored glasses, the $25 dress definitely holds its ground. When did I become a KMART pusher? Kill. Me. Now.
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nonpretentious Cafepress

March 17, 2009
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nonpretentious products have arrived! Need a mug?  Clothes?  A sticker?  A flip cam? Check out our store. (note: a permanent link to the store is on the shop page.)
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Scrounge through your mom’s things to find romantic comedy this holiday season!

December 19, 2008
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Scrounge through your mom’s things to find romantic comedy this holiday season!

You are so antisemitic. I bet you saw the title of this post and figured, ah, the Jewish Mother-in-Training’s back…she’s probably wishing me a Happy Hanukkah or Chanukah. But, no, darling Readers. If there is one thing that I give to you this holiday season, other than my companionship on Christmas Eve, which is...
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Wish List

November 29, 2008
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Wish List

Every young JMIT knows that she’ll come of age some day. Yes, some day she’ll become a woman. It may happen after she’s Bat Mitzvah’ed or after she has been deflowered but some day she’ll grow up to have her own Costco membership. Until this JMIT becomes a woman, a Costco membership will be...
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Office Politics

September 5, 2008
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i don’t know if it’s due to the election, Michael Scott, my job in the staffing industry, or reality television shows, but lately i’ve had this weird fascination with office politics or team politics or group politics. how organized groups of people interact with one another. organizational behavior, if you will. i go into...
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Ways for Payless to improve (destroy?) its image using genitalia.

August 30, 2008
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Ways for Payless to improve (destroy?) its image using genitalia.

So Payless ShoeSource isn’t trendy. But there is no reason why paying pesos for my favorite kicks at the local PSS should send me spiraling downward into an oblivion of 90′s fashion disaster. Why do I spend all that time trimming my ball hair (props tough_love) when a girl won’t even look past my...
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Wal-Mart

August 7, 2008
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Received this link a couple of days ago at work. Thought it was interesting and wanted to pass it on. There is definitely a Wal-Mart within 7 minutes of my house, with a Target right across the street. Talk about options. But…mine is not the super 24/7 wal-mart. oh well. Plant a seed and...
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Recommendation: Bodum Travel Press

August 6, 2008
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i’ve recently heard that kitchen gadgets are a must for city-dwelling, young professionals. Fondue pots, sushi serving dishes, spice racks…these are all strange, new toys for a Jewish girl whose favorite food is takeout. But, hey, who doesn’t like a new gadget fad? (If you own this, this, or this any of these, you...
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