So. The current weather conditions in NYC bear striking resemblance to a Chi-town winter. It’s so bad that I’m about to bust out a Turtle Fur, style be damned.
Anything Etsy-related is automatically exempted from my daily delete-obnoxious-PR-emails exercise; I’m usually bonkers for anything featured in its editor’s picks. That being said, if you’re theme o’ [...]

Sometimes when I’m in busywork mode, I put the The Today Show on for background noise purposes – yes, I like my “news” happy and fluffy. I tend to hit the Off button at the start of The Fourth Hour (Kathie Lee’s a character, but the voice… OY).
A few weeks ago, fate intervened and I [...]

Dear Cheap JAP,
I’m going to be getting married in a few months. Everything about it is completely non-traditional – a justice of the peace sorta thing. I need your advice on good websites to find cute dresses. It doesn’t have to be white – I’m looking for an amazing dress under $300 that I wouldn’t [...]

Clutches are exactly what the name implies; to carry this kind of purse, you have to give up a free hand. I thought clutches of the wristlet ilk were the only means to making the burden more bearable. Then I saw this:

You’re probs thinking Qui gives a shit? It’s got a freakin’ bow on it. [...]

This is me, going through my cheapjap@gmail.com account: Product endorsement BS, delete, delete, PR crap, delete, delete, Fair trade handbags, del…hmm, interested. I’ve never bought a bag online, but Novica.com’s mission to “give artists and artisans around the world a global platform to express their true artistic talents and to spur their creativity” has me [...]

Mmkay. A superficial glance at the pictured items suggests that I’m nuts for giving them the heave-ho; I’m well aware. Here’s the piece-by-piece breakdown of why they’ve gotta go.

Cream-and-Beige Shoshanna Toile Dress – I had no idea that toile was a print WASPier than Lily when I bought this dress eight years ago. [...]

Bluefly’s One-Day-Only 60% Off Shoe Sale is happening, like, now.

Among the goodies at reduced-reduced prices? Rafe Moc Toe Pump, $275 reduced to $100.03; Stuart Weitzman Suede Metallic Trifecta Pump, $295 reduced to $128.24.
If you’re in NEED of some foot fabulosity, I suggest getting off my site and onto theirs ASAP!

Soooo, the crappy economic sitch means big designer discounts, obvs. Even new stuff incurs a price-slashing as soon as it hits the racks and/or the Interweb. It’s easy to get giddy over this phenomenon; isn’t a 50% off tag the silver lining of the overpriced handbag storm cloud? Au contraire, dollfaces. If we had money [...]

Wanna know why I’m really against online shopping? Because I don’t have a doorman. If I’m not home, I do not receive my package. Instead, I receive yellow slips that inform me of UPS’s 1st, 2nd and 3rd attempts to drop off said package.
When a reader mentioned she scored a Theory blazer for ten bucks [...]

Generally speaking, I’m just not that into online shopping. I think it’s a cop out (also a one-way ticket to credit card debt). Shopping requires blood, sweat and tears, people, not logging into your shopbop account, clicking the SALE, Marc by Marc Jacobs button, duping yourself into thinking the Party Girl Starburst Tote is more [...]