I never claimed to be “normal”, that being said I will go into a brief history on my love of books. For the first seven years of my childhood we did not have tv, so I spent hours of my life scanning through pages of the books which brought me worlds away from my boring reality. I don’t want to brag, but I did win an award in elementary school for having read for the most hours than any other kid in my school (granted I did go to a small school). I can often become lost for hours in book stores, perched against shelves reading my way through countless books and magazines (the travel section is a dangerous place for me, thank you Anthony Bourdain). When updating the Reading Club books for TGAAD, I have a difficult time choosing just a couple books at a time because of the countless great books out there about shopping, fashion, and money saving tips. I’ve narrowed it down to just a couple as to not overwhelm anyone out there. The first new book I’ve added to our list is Cinderella Ate my Daughter by Peggy Orenstein, the book is a fascinating discussion of the princess culture our daughters are being brought up in and a questioning of how to best deal with this without rearing a daughter who will become the next participant on You’re Cut Off (VH1 reality show about very spoiled girls). The second book added to our list is Spent: Memoirs of a Shopping Addict by Avis Cardella, which gives us an account of the authors addiction to shopping as well as her emotional connection to purchasing, especially after experiencing the loss of her mother. So read away and enjoy!
My second topic of discussion today is that I realized I have been neglecting our conscious shopping page and thought it was perhaps best to take a moment to think about our male counterparts and give them a little help when it comes to shopping. So I’ve added a new and fabulous clothing company named Longshot Apparel to our list of conscious clothing brands! The brand is made for the tall fit man, fabrics woven in Italy, handmade in the USA! This might be a great help to some of you who still have nothing for your significant other for our upcoming Valentines Day (singles awareness day to some of us), or to pass along to that guy who just can’t ever seem to find a properly fitting shirt, because lets face it Mr. Tall Dark and Handsome is not supposed to be wearing high water jeans or a shirt that it looks like it was borrowed from his old college roommate who’s appears to be a foot shorter than him.
Strange, isn’t it, how far denim has come? If my grandfather knew that a $600 pair of jeans even existed… let alone that human beings were actually willing to pay that kind of money for them… he would, as my mother would say, roll over in his grave.
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