Philadelphia is My Home

21
Aug

Mix & Match Already

Author: Momish, Category: Just Ranting, Shopping

Speaking of rap music…

I was in Mandy’s yesterday shopping (I love their stockings) and I had to walk out.  The music playing was not just annoying, but offensive.

Now I know I am an old foggy, but I also spent many years working in retail.  I even worked in one of those hip, super trendy stores back in my day.  And as much as I would have loved to listen to Echo & The Bunnymen and the Bad Brains all day, we had to please all of our clientele.  That meant mixing and matching our music as well as the clothes we sold.  Trust me, I heard my fair share of rap as well as Neil Diamond over the years.

So I walked around, dealing with the music for that one song and waited to see if it would change. But when the next song was almost exactly the same, complete with lyrics that degraded women and talked about guns, I put down the one item I was going to purchase and made my way to the door.  Rap is one thing, inappropriate music being shoved down my throat is another.

When the bag check girl asked, “Couldn’t find anything?”  I was honest and told her, “Never tried. I can’t take this music.”  She gave me a look of understanding, as if either she too couldn’t take it or she was use to hearing the complaint.

It scares me to think that my step daughters shop at this place.

31
Jul

Bookworms Unite

Author: Momish, Category: Kids, Local Charity, Shopping

Tomorrow starts Border’s August Book Drive.  They will be collecting new books to donate to Reach Out And Read all month.  

Now, let me ask you this… do you need any other reason to go to Borders?  I didn’t think so.

While you are browsing around, you can pick up a book right then and donate it to this great cause (after you pay for it, of course).  Just think, you get new books for your summer reading (still a month left) and pass along the thrill of books to children in our own community. 

The love of books and reading is one of the greatest gifts you can offer to anyone, especially to kids that don’t have the luxury to browse around Borders with the world of words at their fingertips.

You should check out some of the information on Reach Out and Read’s website.  The studies and statistics regarding the importance of early exposure to reading are interesting.  They give a lot of statistics regarding reading out loud to childern under the age of three.  I am guilty of failing short in my duties as a parent and fall into the 23% of parents that only do it once or twice a week.  But even so, I still believe she will be fine, because I was.

My mother hardly ever read out loud to us as we were kids.  But she was an avid reader.  So although she didn’t put us to bed with a bedtime story, we watched her enjoy devouring book after book as a favorite past time.  That alone was enough to pique our interest and get us hooked.

Exposure is the key, but that requires books, lots of books. 

Border’s August Book Drive:

August 1, 2007 12:00 AM
Location: In Store

Philadelphia - Avenue of Arts
1 S. Broad
Suite 100
Philadelphia, PA
Phone:215.568.7400

27
Jul

Trying To See The Bright Side

Author: Momish, Category: Philly Finds, Resources, Shopping

A month or so after my daughter was born I got a kidney stone.  It required one ER visit, two outpatient procedures and lots of morphine to get the damn thing out.  On the bright side, after six weeks of hell, I lost over 26 pound including all that pregnancy weight.  Naturally, I went shopping for the new wardrobe my skinny new bod required.

Well, that was almost two years ago.  So as you can only image, after two years of holiday dinners, neurotic snacking and one week of vacation, those 26 pounds have found me again.  Mostly on my butt, sad to say. But you know me, always trying to look on the bright side of things.  As far as I can see, the only mildly sunny side of having a new yelk body is needing new clothes.  And in some pathetic way, I can live with that. 

So with full excuse in hand, I decided to hit The Walk in Atlantic City like the true shopaholic I am, this time on a valid mission for a change.  I think I went into every store twice.  And, although I was sure I would find some things there, I was mistaken.  My wardrobe is still hurting and all my current clothes are rediculously too tight.  I tried to spend money, but most of the shops were not my cup of tea.  As a result, all I have to look forward to now is going to the Green Street Consignment Shop when I get back home.  I am sure my bank account will really took a hit there. 

I love Green Street.  There is just something about designer clothes, high end designer clothes, that just fit so well.  Even if you are not a size 2, six foot tall model.  I can’t afford high end designer clothes new, so Green Street is the perfect place to stock up on those unique and well made items every wardrobe needs, at great prices to boot. 

However, if you are a size 6, don’t bother going there.  They won’t have anything for you.  Likewise for all you women with size 7 1/2 feet.  You’ll only be disappointed, trust me.  Stay home. I am talking nothing, nada.  Don’t go.  Stay away.   BACK OFF!  THEY’RE MINE ! ALL MINE!

 Green Street Consignment Shop:

700 South St
Philadelphia, PA
19147

Phone: (215) 733-9261