http://visadiaries.com/wordpress Tales of life and love through shopping Tue, 10 Aug 2010 03:28:04 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en For the most part, I have been trying to avoid talking about things I am buying for my wedding (4 weeks away!) on this blog, because it is such a specific niche of purchases. Furthermore, it is endless, and could fill up posts from here until death do us part. ... http://visadiaries.com/wordpress/?p=170 For people who don't live in Brooklyn, old things may very well just be old things. An old typewriter, say, whose keys stick and whose ribbon is pretty much dried out would be worth less than a new typewriter, for example. And really, anywhere else, people probably wouldn't want typewriter ... http://visadiaries.com/wordpress/?p=167 I don't know about you folks, but I have an iPhone. I'm guessing a good number of you do too - Apple didn't recently beat out Microsoft in market cap for its computers (crazy as that is, and not that the computers aren't great), ok?? Looove the iPhone. However, if you ... http://visadiaries.com/wordpress/?p=162 Sometimes when I write about things I buy, I am painfully aware of how trite they are in the larger scheme of things. Especially when preparing to write about something like eyeliner.  I do realize, for example, that the plugging the cap on BP's busted oil well on the gulf ... http://visadiaries.com/wordpress/?p=153 What is the deal with businesses that produce things in cheaper countries turning around and hawking them here for premium prices? There are tons of examples I could think of, but I am referring specifically right now to John Robshaw textiles. My annoyance is heightened by the fact that I ... http://visadiaries.com/wordpress/?p=149 Early on when Matt and I first started dating, apropos of very little, he announced to me that he had a great blender. He really emphatically wanted me to know what good quality his blender was, and went on about it at some length. This did not exactly make my ... http://visadiaries.com/wordpress/?p=141 Back in March, I went to a beautiful, fancy spa with my mother. It is hard to imagine that anybody anywhere could have stuffed more loveliness and good feeling into one week than the folks at the Rancho La Puerta. The weather was sunny and dry; the grounds were fragrant ... http://visadiaries.com/wordpress/?p=128 I wrote a while back about buying a carpet in a Souk in Marrakech. I haven't been to Marrakech recently, and sadly no upcoming plans to go, but yet I need a new carpet. So I am trying carpet-buying American-style this time, which is quite a different process. No tea ... http://visadiaries.com/wordpress/?p=119 I was at a wedding a few months ago, and at the rehearsal dinner my friend Gillian complimented my dress. "Oh, its from GILT," I replied, forgetting that Gillian lives in London, where GILT might not be a household name. She looked at me blankly, until I explained the concept: ... http://visadiaries.com/wordpress/?p=110 Back in April, I got an email from my lovely neighbor Nick, asking what did I want to do with our common planters? Growing season was upon us, he pointed out, and the dead sea grass in there just wasn't coming back. Simple and kindly as it was, this email ... http://visadiaries.com/wordpress/?p=105