Weekend Wind-Down: Shopaholics

Tah, Dah!

We’ve made it through the week, cured of Oniomania!  I really hope that you have thought about some of your shopping habits and found some different ideas that may just work for you.  Remember that you don’t have to take all my advice.  You can just take some… or none, if you really don’t think it’ll work for you.  Every person is different, just like the name or a fingerprint.

Speaking of names… I owe you the results of the voting from the last couple weeks.  Through emails, we now have the results for the name of our Friday friend, the dancing frog.  Drum roll please… his name is….

Frog.  I personally find this very funny, because this is the name I suggested as a joke.  But for some reason, you all seemed to like it!

Well, anyway, as usual, it is Friday, so today is the Weekend Wind-Down: Shopaholics version.  This is where I post the top websites or blog posts that I’ve read on this week’s theme in the past couple weeks.  Please, check them out!

• 1.    Butterboom: This article is simply a link to yet something even better… a short film by Karl Lagerfeld.  It is called “Fitting Room Follies” and is being posted here in honor of Monday’s post.  This film is just another example of how fitting rooms have just been incorporated into our daily repertoire and their legend status.  Even though the film is pretty neat, and based on Coco Chanel’s new line, remember what the room are actually used for and how they can save you money…

• 2.    Royalty Universe: This is a shopping blog.  There really is no other way to describe it… however it is something else all together.  There is more financial advice, some to do with online shopping and whatnot.  See?  Even those wanting to write an entire blog dedicated to shopping can find themselves talking about saving money and finances.  They go hand in hand.

• 3.    Shameless Sales: Simply looking at the logo for this blog – a mustached man holding up a bag of money – tells you exactly the purpose.  This is a blog for sales people.  It is a blog to teach them how to use their resources to keep your buying and keep the money rolling in.  It makes me sad because of what I’m writing about, but at the same time, it’s very useful information to have.  The posts are very short, so you can read a couple in a couple minutes.

• 4.    Yahoo! Layout:  We talked about being able to navigate stores like Kohl’s and various others… but what we missed out on was the online stores, like Amazon.  They don’t have the physical techniques like those other stores do, but they have their own style of luring customers exactly where they want you to do.  This Yahoo! Partnered site is selling their design services… specifically to bring shoppers in.  This is here for reasons just like Shameless Sales – to show you the other side.