As Back-To-School specials begin to roll in, watch this space (these spaces?) for new sales, deals, special prices and coupons. Sending a kid off to college? Outfit ‘em with a couple of nice gift cards to take for a weekend of shopping at their favorite outlet! This sales event has ended. Current and upcoming specials [...]

(Warning: Humor) A man came home from work and found his three children outside, still in their pajamas, playing in the mud, with empty food boxes and 20 wrappers strewn all around the front yard. The door of his wife’s car was open, and so was the front door to the house. There was no sign [...]

Originally Posted: Perfectly Shaped Life – September 2007 (Much of this advice can be applied to online shopping in general, but I’m going to focus on our goal of finding and listing the best plus size shopping locations.) In a perfect life, shopping online would be as simple as opening a browser window that goes [...]

The pictured Birkin Bag is known as the Hermès 25cm Matte Chocolate Niloticus Crocodile Birkin Bag. This is NOT the bag in the giveaway. How many times in your lifetime do you expect to see the words “HERMES BIRKIN GIVEAWAY” in the same sentence? If the mere thought of this is leaving you a bit [...]

As fun as it was this time last year – Happy Hallowe’en! For many of us, Halloween brings back fond memories of dusk trips around the neighborhood, disguised as pirates, ballerinas, Superman, even bedsheet ghosts, eyes cut out with Mom’s pinking shears (sometimes without Mom’s knowledge – sorry, Mom!). For others of us, we’ve got [...]

Yes, you saw a brief flurry of tiny product posts. I’ve just spend the night installing Datafeedr, a new product feed management tool that works hand in glove with WordPress to facilitate store presentation. It’s got this great feature called ‘drip’ (I kid you not) which, when properly set up, will post a product snapshot [...]

I apologize to you for the delay in posting here at Perfectly Shaped World.  The past few weeks brought a series of personal and family upheavals which completely derailed my train of thought.  Things are settling down slowly, and this week is dedicated to regaining direction and momentum.  I am hoping to have everything back [...]

I’m no financial wizard. I hold no degree from the London School of Economics. But it doesn’t take a Warren Buffett or Alan Greenspan to know that the economy is in trouble. There’s been a lot of belt-tightening required, and not in a good way. Frugal hint sites are gaining more popularity by the day. [...]

Batteries used to strike me as something along the lines to flood insurance here in the high desert: Not something terribly crucial, not something forefront on my mind, durn handy to have in case of a flood (which happens more often than you’d think), more of an annoyance than a mandatory item. After all, if [...]