Thank you, dear reader, for visiting our site. We’ve enjoyed getting to know you over the last 3 years and hope you’ve found the site useful and interesting.

Sadly, today, we’re calling it quits.

We’re back in the position we’ve been many times in the life of this site: being blatantly plagiarized by one of the web’s less-scrupulous operators. It’s not the first time we’ve been here, and if we keep going, it won’t be the last…

If you’re shopping for some new shoes, be sure to check out Endless.com!. The selection is great, the site is easy to use, and boy do they have some outstanding promotions going on right now:

• Through February 4th, save $20 on $100 orders in brands with extended sizes and widths.
• Through February 23rd, save $20 on $150 running shoe orders — like these Pearl iZUMi women’s surge running shoes.
• Through April 15th, save $15 on $75 Rainboot orders.

Of…

Would you like to win $500 worth of fashion and beauty goodies for Christmas this year? Or a $300 runner-up prize?

If you haven’t already entered, you have one last day to enter the contest here; the contest close at 11:59PM EST on 20th December. All you have to do is visit the contest page and leave a comment, telling us what you’d like for Christmas this year.

PS: If you tried to enter before and couldn’t, sorry…

One lucky Bargain Queen reader will win a Christmas stocking worth over $500 as a gift from us to you.

One more reader will receive a runner-up prize of a goodie bag worth $250.

To enter, leave a comment to tell us what you most wish for in your stocking this year by midnight EST on December 20th.

Congratulations to redtwinkle, who won our $500 Lucky Shops fashion & beauty goodie bag! Her favorite vendors at this year’s Lucky Shops?

Many favs: Nine West, Kate Spade purses, D&B. Heck I love it all.

Congratulations also to our two runners-up, who each won a Lucky tote bag filled with Lucky swag, valued at $60. These go to klm39, who said:

My favorites are Michael Kors and Nine West for sure.

…and alissashreddah, who sounds like she’s hanging out…

If you haven’t yet entered our $600+ fashion & beauty goodie bag giveaway (in conjunction with Lucky Shops), be quick! Entries close 11:59pm this Wednesday, November 5th.

One lucky Bargain Queen reader will win this huge fashion and beauty goody bag worth over $500, just in time for the holidays.

Two more BQ readers will receive a runner-up prize of a Lucky tote bag filled with Lucky swag, value $60.00.

To enter, leave a comment on this post to answer this question:

Who is your favorite designer at Lucky Shops 2008, and why do you love them?

(Hint: there’s a full list of designers who’ll be there on…

Just launched: the Carnival of Thrift Store Addicts, hosted at Idyllic Dreams. Love the idea, so I hope it takes off.

Bloggers, if you have thrift-related posts you’d like to see featured in the next edition, you can submit them here.

If you do, you’re average according to a recent Australian study:

Women aged under 30 bought, on average, 112 garments a year - double that of women aged over 30.

By comparison, the average male bought 29 items of clothing a year.
Source: news.com.au

I don’t think I buy that much, but I will definitely check when I get home.

How about you: do you buy 112 garments each year?

Image: mikefats

When this month’s Elle arrived with a gorgeous black and white cover, it had to be read immediately. I’m glad it didn’t go into my pile of unread mags because when I read it, I spotted something interesting: a story very like a post I wrote last year.

The Elle story reports that fashion designers wear the same look for years, while they push a new look onto us every single season — much like my post that…