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How To Shop SmartBargains
SmartBargains.com delivers prices you’ll love and brand names you lust over. At first glance it looks like your typical Target-like discount site. Search around and you’ll be pleasantly surprised to find BCBG, Anne Klein, Rock [.....] [...] Read More
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The Budget Fashionista’s Weekly Retail Closing Report for Feb 27
It’s a mixed bag this week – overall, retailers are falling farther and farther from grace (even online sales are dropping), but some are getting creative at getting consumers back. Here’s a round up of [.....] [...] Read More
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New Look for L’Oreal?
Drugstore beauty brand, L’Oreal, may start “introducing lower-priced items” to shoppers. In addition to implementing a hiring freeze and laying out a more innovative and aggressive business agenda, L’Oreal is in the process of separating [.....] [...] Read More
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Yea or Nay: Ugg Rainboots?
To Ugg or not to Ugg: The greatest question facing our country in the new millennium. You know, I’ve been on the fence about Ugg boots for a while now. On one hand, they’re comfy, easy [.....] [...] Read More
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The Budget Fashionista’s Weekly Retail Closing Report
It ain’t pretty in the fashion world. If you haven’t noticed yet, department stores are dropping like flies. New York has been the first to feel the effects of the bad economy. Its local jewelry and [.....] [...] Read More
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Get Free Makeup
“THIS EVENT HAS ENDED” Did you buy cosmetics between May 29,1994 and July 16,2003? We’re guessing you did. And stores like Macy’s and Dillard’s will take your word for it. Due to a class action settlement, [.....] [...] Read More
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How to Shop Endless
If you ask any fashionista where their shopping weaknesses lie, you’ll probably get one of two answers—shoes, or handbags. Or both. Those two areas are also where, we’d argue, that are worth spending a little [.....] [...] Read More
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How to Shop Series / Shopping Guides
How to Shop Overstock.com
Overstock.com is just what the name implies—an online outlet for the liquidation of excess stock, including designer and name brand goods. It is, essentially, an outlet mall for the Internet (cue the heavenly beams of [.....] [...] Read More
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How to Shop Series / Shopping Guides
How to Shop Bluefly.com
Knowing how to shop a brick-and-mortar store is different than knowing how to shop online : we tend to take the quick click route—which is the shortest amount of time between the loading of the [.....] [...] Read More
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How to Shop Walmart
We can hear the collective groan from all of the fashionistas who turn up their noses at shopping the aisles of the local WalMart. We realize that shopping for workwear just yards from the frozen [.....] [...] Read More
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How to Shop Series / Shopping Guides
How to Shop Drugstore.com
To be perfectly honest, it hardly ever occurred to us to shop online for beauty and personal care items (that’s why God created WalMart, right?), but once we’ve spent a little time clicking around on [.....] [...] Read More
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Eleven Top Online Auction Sites
Shopping auction sites requires a few caveats—beware of designer knock-offs, check the feedback ratings on sellers carefully, only pay through secure options like PayPal. Once you’ve got the cautions out of the way, however, there’s [.....] [...] Read More
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How to Shop Big Lots
A closeout store like Big Lots is not the first thing that springs to mind for, er, fashionable shopping. Or the second. Or twelfth. But let’s change our mindset for just a moment, shall we? [.....] [...] Read More
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Editor Picks / Shopping Guides
Six Great Online Swap Sites
Recycling is in-not only in terms of the environment, but also in terms of fashion—and these sites are leading the online swapping community. Before trading your goods, you need to know a few things: be [.....] [...] Read More
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TBF’s Top Recession Survival Tips
> Right—nobody likes the “R” word (and apparently “Depressionista” is next in line to be banned by the FCC); however, it’s our duty here at TBF—as your cyber BFFs—to share whatever tips we can to make [.....] [...] Read More
