THE SAVVY SHOPPER

For 4 years, I’ve been my mom's caregiver. She has old age dementia, a condition that takes many forms. However, unlike Alzheimer’s pati...

Photo: Amazon Years ago, we had a great store in Manhattan called Odd-Job-Lot Trading with several locations throughout the city. It followe...

Another winter is over in the Western Hemisphere, and spring has arrived! We have persevered and overcome! Easter celebrates tenacity over t...

I didn’t watch the John Kennedy and Carolyn Bessette docudrama. Certainly, I was aware of them in the 1990s and walked past their penthouse ...

Wow, I learn something new every day! I’m a city girl, and don’t know much about botany. Outside of well-known plants, I’m clueless. I did n...

Have you heard about The Story’s Suitcase-in-a-Backpack sold exclusively at Target? Wear it as a backpack, but open and pack it as a suitcas...

To borrow a term from financial journalism, a vacuum cleaner isn’t a sexy topic, but I bet all households need one! I use an Oreck Elevate ...

A very inexpensive safety tool to consider for your kitchen, fireplace, or grill area is a fire-retardant blanket. In the event of an accide...

Sometimes my local CVS drugstore has free samples for the taking, which introduces me to unfamiliar products I wouldn’t normally pick up li...

New Year's Eve is a holiday I like very much. As a younger adult I went out to celebrate sometimes, but always to places which were eas...

All around Manhattan the Christmas trees are up, and the brownstones are decorated. Below is a festive one on the Upper East Side. In my kit...