Shopping
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Curb your spending habits
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Thrifty Spring Shopping
CommentWe're showing you how to dress up your Spring wardrobe without emptying your wallet.
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Find out how to get the best deals on Black Friday
CommentGet the best deals this Black Friday--we'll tell you how!
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Staying out of debt this holiday season and why you should skip Black Friday
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Financial guru Dani Johnson explains how to stay out of debt during the holidays and into 2012.
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Metro history: How Germantown evolved into the D.C. metro area
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So how did D.C. expand into all these suburbs, anyway? A 1965 article from LIFE's double issue on the state of the U.S. city provides insight into how the District first became the DMV. Let's look at the mid-century rise of Germantown, Maryland.
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Metro history: D.C. parking was agonizing even 70 years ago
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Consider the headline of this wonderfully fascinating April '46 article from The Rotarian: "The Parking Problem Can Be Solved," the title forthrightly proclaims. The vice president of the Automotive Safety Foundation proceeds to explain tips on how to manage parking and, in a telling but significant phrase from the article's subhead, "keep downtown shoppers cheerful."
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Tax-free days coming to Virginia and Maryland
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Virginia and Maryland are suspending sales taxes on certain goods, which means that, for a limited time only, you can save a few dollars on such essentials as adult diapers, arm warmers, corsets, bowling shoes, clerical vestments, choir and altar clothing, galoshes, martial arts attire, jock straps, and garter belts.
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Scoutmob DC launches today, promises not to screw local businesses
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You know all about Groupon and LivingSocial, the two most successful daily-deal websites in the U.S., but you might not realize that there are, in fact, hundreds of such websites out there. A newcomer named Scoutmob hopes to stand out by focusing on local businesses and, well, being hipper than the competition.
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How do you get customers to shop in suburban downtown areas?
Popular retail chain stores can successfully attract customers. Then again, they take away the downtown character [Just up the Pike]
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Memorial Day Weekend sales
If you're staying in and develop a case of the shopping bug, the only cure is some good deals. [S.W.A.G.]
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Research shows health benefits of shopping
Comment"Retail therapy" sounds like just another excuse to go on a spending spree, but it might actually work.
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Shoppers take advantage of Presidents Day sales
CommentMany shoppers who had the day off decided to take advantage of the Presidents Day sales.
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Faithful customers mourn the loss of Sixteen Fifty Nine
After a very slow two years, Johnson says the best financial decision he could make is to close his store.
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D.C. snow: Did last year's storms make the D.C. area less wimpy?
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The D.C. area is notorious for its overreactions to winter weather. But after last winter's epic snow storms, are we finally stoic in the face of moderate accumulations?
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Start-of-the-week sales
Hello there, shoppers! Too excited to go to bed last night after the AFC Championship and now your sleep deprivation has given you a major case of the Monday mopes?
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Impulse Buys: Solar lantern
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Snapshots of the wild, weird, and wonderful things you can buy in the D.C. area.
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Old Town boutique warehouse sale returns Feb. 5!
The region’s most anticipated bargain shopping event is coming back to Alexandria this February 5. Fine boutiques from Virginia and Washington will come together under one roof for their annual, one-day clearance sale.“This is a once-a-year chance to find great boutique fashions, jewelry, and home goods at prices up to 70 percent off retail,” said sale organizer Elizabeth Todd.See Deacon's previous coverage.
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Winter clearance at the outlets
With frigid temperatures outside and stores showcasing swimwear inside (c’mon, really?), you may be thinking it’s too late to snag some weather-appropriate clothing deals.
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