Do you want it? Or need it? Depends
There’s one reason to shop at Wal-Mart and it has nothing to do with customer service. No, the only time I deal with the headache that is the CityPlace parking lot is when it’s time for new slippers. I know what you’re thinking: Can’t Jim forgo this travesty [...]

Holiday Travel Editon
We’d all like to pack our suitcases and hop a flight to Switzerland (or even just San Francisco) for the holidays, but for many of us, “winter vacation” typically translates into “sleep over at Mom and Dad/Grandpa and Grandma’s” . . . you know, at their house in Cerritos. This year, though, for [...]

I wasn’t looking for a new hair product, but there it was, For Men Hair Slick, prancing in front of my eyes at The Body Shop. My girlfriend was off somewhere—the temptation was too much. I stared and I paced. I picked it up, I put it down. After a few laps around the shop, [...]

Do you want it? Or need it? Depends
At first blush, the idea of hiring a personal Christmas shopper might come off as cold, lazy and distant, but I encourage you to look deeper: shopping for your family is not only laborious, but perilous, too. Unwanted purchases can leave both the giver and receiver with total, [...]

If flexing your tree-hugger cred while you’re alive just isn’t enough, go granola post-mortem with a purchase you can’t make twice: your coffin.
A safely biodegradable, 100 percent recycled paper coffin, the Ecopod is a radical, “green guilt”-free alternative to conventional chipboard and laminate caskets that leak toxins into groundwater and soil. Inventor Hazel Selina describes [...]