Henry David Thoreau distrusted any enterprise that required new clothes, which is why he abandoned his career as a French maid. Embrace bold new outfits with today's Groupon: for $15, you get $30 worth of women's apparel, accessories, and gifts at The Inside Story in Madison.
The Inside Story’s friendly fashionistas drape shoppers in stylish frocks and jewelry, displayed amid a vibrant selection of gifts and home accessories. Designer jewelry by Kitzi and Ronaldo stands ready to adorn wrists ($48+ each), and fragrant candles await a chance to perfume living rooms, kitchens, and hermetically sealed plastic bubbles ($2.25–$32). Sartorial offerings ($20–$100) include multi-textured tops constructed with lacy collars and sparkly accents. Customers can nab a printed sundress for an end-of-summer barbecue and attract olfactory attention by dabbing pulse points with gourmet seasonings from Shapley's and Ely's ($8.95 each). The Inside Story also purveys a collection of brightly colored pottery pieces ($8–$145) made by locals.
Groupon Says
The Groupon Guide to: What Makes a TV?
Enjoying television is as patriotic as knitting an apple pie or eating American flags. Here's a look at some of the components that make up these high-tech picture boxes:
• Glass: A high-end TV has a glass screen that when turned off (not recommended) will reflect your image. When turned on, it will reflect how awesome TV is.
• Cathode Ray Tube: No longer needed for modern TVs to work, but manufacturers still put one in every set just for old times' sake.
• Gold: TV signals, like men's hearts, are lustily attracted to gold, causing them to fly out of the sky into the gold brick in the back of every TV.
• A Couple of Horse Bones: 'Cause why not, right?
• Wires: They hook up to the wired helmets that all the actors wear to beam their acting into your TV.
• An Eternal Flame: To honor the former TV stars who have died.
• Tiny Fire Extinguisher: In case the eternal flame gets out of control.
• IBM PetaFlop SuperComputer: Guesses when you want to change the channel, lower the volume, etc., all to cover up the fact that the remote control doesn't do anything.
• Martin Sheen: He's gotta live somewhere.
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