You Guessed It: More Sales
Matthew Izzo’s having a big old sale with 30% off all new clothing purchased online (code: BLACK30) and 20% to 70% off in-store items.
Steal of the Day
I’d be completely remiss if I didn’t mention Echo Chic’s 15% off sale. Everything in the store is 15% off. Everything. Even sale items. Which means that you can combine their $49 jean sale with the 15% Black Friday sale and get yourself a hot a pair of jeans for $41.95. And that, my friends, is something to be thankful for.
Deal or No Deal
The truly deranged among you are probably already done your shopping. Me, I’ve just started to feel sufficiently caffeinated to blog about shopping. Here’s some cool shit going on around town.
Smak Parlour is offering 20% off any one item and the first 25 shoppers to spend $50 will receive a free (and super cute) shawl. There’ll also be 30% markdowns on some merchandise and gifts starting as low as $8.
R.E.Load is pulling out brand-spankin’-new merch between 2 p.m. and 6 p.m. today and everything will be on sale for at least 15% off (though a little birdie told me some things would go for as much as 30% off).
Citypaper is hosting The World’s Greatest Trunk Show until 3 p.m. today at the TLA. Even though it appears to be cash-only and I wish the event was running longer so I could stop by to scope it out, I have to give some props. They’ve got some of my favorite local stuff, including items from Arcadia Boutique, shirts by Xenotees and wares by Nicole Rae Styer.
Grasshopper is offering 25% off all regularly priced merchandise. Which means this girl might just work up the energy and take a walk down Walnut Street today.
Shop Early: Sugarcube’s Black Friday Sale Starts TODAY
This just in from Sugarcube Inc. (124 N. Third St. 215.238.0825. www.sugarcube.us): Their holiday sale starts today. (Though it excludes accessories, which is a total bummer.) Shop today and receive 30% off and if you’re avoiding the familia tomorrow, stop by tomorrow for 25% off. The bravest shoppers of all will receive 25% off on Black Friday.
Obligatory Mention of the It’s Always Sunny T-Shirt
Personally, I think It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia stopped being funny after the first season. (All time favorite line from television ever: “I will eat your babies, bitch. For the love of god, someone find a link to that scene and send it to me. I’ve been searching for days.)
But I realize I’m in the minority, because everyone I know is still talking about how funny the show is. So here’s link to the FX shop, where you can purchase a T-shirt featuring the notorious (and I’ll admit it, catchy) lyrics to “Day Man.” It is $25 and also comes in gray.
True Confession
When I have a Day with a capital D, sometimes I watch this old school Sesame Street clip on YouTube.
Reconsider Recycling This Holiday Season
Now that we’re T-minus two days till the start of the holiday season, it’s totally acceptable to admit you’re thinking about sending holiday cards this year. Sure, the cost of postage is astronomical (Hey, Obama how about working on that while you’re fixing America, huh?) but it seems way cheaper than shipping Whitman’s Samplers across the country.
Picking the right card is important. Think of it as a personal statement about yourself. For example, an overtly religious card is all right, but only if all your friends celebrate the same holiday. And a funny card is fine. Unless you’re friends with that overtly religious guy.
Friend-of-PW-Style and former staff writer at the Weekly Cassidy sent over this link with information about ReProduct, a local company whose goal is to design products that can be reused to make new products over and over again.
Their latest product is a personalized photo greeting card that comes with a pre-paid, pre-addressed envelope. Card recipients put them back in the mail when they’re done with them and they go to Shaw Industries, which makes them into carpet backing. It’s much better than recycling because paper can only be recycled a limited number of times before it becomes too degraded. This process can be repeated indefinitely.
Check our their selection of holiday cards below.
Prices vary depending on how many photos are on each card (you can get up to three) and the Web site irritatingly requires you to enter some personal info (name, email address, username and password) before allowing you to research specific products, but at least you’ll know that this card will send the right message about you.
The Day in Balls: “Man Junk”
According to male friends, only women give a shit about shit. Men’s rooms are unholy ground where men freely grunt, groan, splash AND in fact DISCUSS it. Gross. Anyway since the aforementioned poo-pourri is apparently only a chick concern, here is a product for dudes only.
Enter Man Junk, an “organic” douche for dudes. Admittedly, there’s a slight joy in realizing that the pressure to look, smell, taste, feel and sound perfectly inhuman is affecting dudes also. That joy lasts a few seconds then dissolves into the regularly scheduled low-level American depression.
My guess is that skunk scrotum happens only under severe circumstances and so far, hasn’t required any product intervention.
Anyone with scrotum, if you try this product please report immediately. Anyone that practices regular hygiene yet has suffered silently from a stank bozack, please never, never tell me.
Style Woe of the Day
The plight of the bespectacled: No matter how cute I look—and this morning my boyfriend told me I looked beautiful—walking to work on a rainy day, even with an umbrella, ensures that my glasses will become flecked with spots of water. And that does not look good.