Shopping in Newcastle

City Hardware's inventory of about 20,000 brand name and independent home-improvement gizmos equips neighborhood handymen for a massive range of tasks. Experienced staff presides over LED flashlights ($5.99+), gallons of paint ($19.99+), and tool kits ($16.99+). Bags of garden soil ($3.49+) fuel agricultural endeavors or attempts to make mole dinner guests feel more at home. City Hardware also offers on-site services, including paint-color matching and key cutting.

Showing up in the same outfit as someone else is always awkward, especially if that person is Lisa Kudrow. Today’s Groupon relieves you from your sartorial struggles: for $50, you get $100 worth of clothing at Retail Therapy, a well-edited men's and women’s clothing store that's known for its plethora of women's underwear.Follow @Groupon_Says on Twitter.

Baas's quality frames and archival mat materials tastefully garnish artwork and photos, transforming living-room walls into high-end galleries. Curating a diverse show room of factory-brand frames as well as specialty designs, the shop boasts a knowledgeable staff that draws on two decades of experience. Customers can stop in for a complimentary consultation and estimate to determine the fitting frame for a family photo, favorite Klimt print, or diploma from puppy academy. Prices range from $5 to $45 per foot, depending on the glass, matting, and other options. Regardless of the size, the perfect frame can accentuate the inherent beauty of any image and unite the divergent styles of a room, eliminating the need to hire long-armed men to hold your art against the wall.

Today’s Groupon encourages you to wear your creativity or share your hip, intentionally uncreative side. For $15, you get $30 worth of printing services at the preeminent onomatopoeia-inspired clothing customizers, B-Bam!. Publish your witticisms and drawings on wearable cotton that makes your body skin feel soft like a pillow made out of cotton candy.Follow @Groupon_Says on Twitter.

Doctor your dwelling with gorgeous greenery with today’s well-potted Groupon. For $15, you’ll get $30 worth of pretty plants and pots at Envy Grows, a botanical boutique in the heart of the city that allows urbanites to turn over a new leaf. Though a flytrap-dominated Earth may seem far-fetched, the United Nation's Council on Apocalyptic Likelihood rates the scenario "very likely," the same ranking given to possible world destructions caused by time-traveling dinosaurs and the Transformers. For the time being, you can help postpone the upcoming flytrapocalypse by not bringing any Venus flytraps into your home. That only allows the deceitful plant to learn your habits for later exploitation.

A sweet tooth is frequently pegged as a mere candy-loving calcium mound, and people never think to mention how much sweet teeth love movies. Stock your goodie bowl with a 16 oz. bag of assorted milk and dark chocolate truffles from Seattle Chocolates. Once your sweet belly is sated and your DVD fingers are licked clean, don your favorite blanket and cuddle up to the artistic renderings of love presented on your double-disc set. A plethora of short international productions, such as Guido Thys’ Tanghi Argentini and Michael Lucas’s Turn, give amorous viewers a chance to pause, chat, and snuggle between each brief film.