Donate Your Jeans at Any Aéropostale Store to Help Homeless Teens

I woke up yesterday morning to a familiar winter chill filling the air. The kind of chill that makes its way into your home regardless of how high the heat is turned up and immediately consumes you before you even open your eyes. The kind of chill that becomes a part of you if you have always lived in a place where it snows, as I have, where as soon as you feel it, you know that while you were sleeping, nature was busy transforming every inch of outside space as far as you can see into the distance a beautiful, pristine white.

Whenever I wake up to newly-fallen snow, I get the same feeling: complete and utter excitement followed by a list of all the ways I could spend my day. You see, a …

Check Out Adore Me, the New Monthly Lingerie Subscription Site with Selections for Your Unique Style

Monthly subscription programs have gained immense popularity as of late and there’s at least one, and sometimes several, services dedicated to all the drool-worthy products women can never have enough of–cosmetics, body products, t-shirts, and heels. Well, now there’s a new program out there filling the void of that one, last thing all the other programs seem to have forgotten about. Lingerie. Seriously, who can ever have enough lingerie? It is simply not possible!

Adore Me is a new trendy lingerie club that offers a personalized shopping experience. The process is simple: Start by taking a quick style quiz where, through a series of multiple choice questions, your particular style preferences are determined. The Adore Me stylists use the results of your style quiz to hand-pick a selection of lingerie, including bra and panty sets, …

2011 Holiday Retail Winners and Losers [Infographic]

The holidays are a time for togetherness, celebrating the season with family and those closest to you, and eating way too much. It is also a time for gift-giving and receiving. In fact, people spend so much time shopping in preparation for the holidays that television viewership significantly decreases, while restaurants see a disproportionately high percentage of their annual business around this time of the year.

The holiday season alone makes up between 25-40% of total annual retail sales, so the most wonderful time of the year can be a particularly joyous time for some retailers, while others can be left struggling.

Check out the following infographic to see which big-name retailers came out as winners after the hustle and bustle of the holiday season and also information on the industries that typically benefit most during the holidays.