“Retail therapy”: Emotional spending is bad for your bottom line, experts say
So, your boss yelled at you, you had a fight with your husband and your kids are being jerks. Time to go shopping, right?
All about the Garlic Festival
Kudos to parking lot volunteers: "I wanted to congratulate you on the story on the Garlic Festival. It's a good reason why local papers should stay in existence. On your heroes though, I think you left someone out that is a super volunteer that you might want to go back and consider. It's the lady, I believe her name is Suki, who runs with 350 volunteers in the parking lot. Those kids work in the dust and it's a remarkable feat that they can even live through that. I'm telling you this in spite of the fact that is cost me $120 to park there because I blew a tire on a rock. But I'd like to see those people given credit along with the fire throwers and so forth in Gourmet Alley. Thank you."
Do you eBay? One local does – and in a big way
In eBay vernacular, they're known as "power sellers," people who make their living off buying and selling items on the Internet behemoth. It's a unique phenomenon, allowing individual users to create home-based retail shops without the need for business licenses, brick-and-mortar stores or professional advertising.















