Author Archives: Owen Jones

There is a huge variety of retailers in all countries where you can go shopping online for clothing. Some of these online stores have outlets on the streets somewhere, some are very well-known department stores while others sell exclusively online. Shopping online for clothing is one of the most popular, because not everyone has the time or the desire to go traipsing around the stores in time that they cannot really afford. Continue reading →

Do you check through your wardrobes from time to time or do you hoard all you ‘old’ clothes for years and years? Some people never, ever throw out any clothes. Maybe they are waiting for them to come back into style or maybe they are hoping to lose enough weight to get back into them. However it might be a good idea to have a regular clean-out, but do not throw those clothes out, donate them to a charity shop or a church bazaar instead. By donating clothes to charity, not only will it give you more space, but you will be helping to raise money for charity as well. Continue reading →

Every parent knows how soon children grow up and how frequently you have to replace their clothing. This is an horrendously expensive operation. Children are a lot more fashion conscious now and much more aware than ever before about what they wear. They want designer this and designer that and that just adds to the cost of the items of children’s clothing that you have to buy. Continue reading →

When one thinks of cheap clothing, words like ‘trendy’ and ‘fashionable’ do not come readily to mind. Rather one thinks of ‘cheap and nasty’. But this does not necessarily have to be the case. Cheap clothing does not have to be poorly made either. You already know the discount shops where they sell clothing where the buttons are not tied off, the stitching is poor and the fabric is flimsy. Continue reading →

A major part of a good upbringing is a good education. Parents have diverse financial resources but they also have diverse means of organizing their children’s education. Some parents are better at it than others. Similarly, not all children want to become doctors or dentists, no matter what their parents would choose for them and most of us thank God for that. Diversity is the spice of life, because fortunately we are not all the same. Continue reading →

What do people give for Christmas and are those gifts any different from thirty or forty years ago? Obviously, there are games about now that did not even exist thirty or forty years ago. In this piece, I would like to take a look at some of the most popular Christmas gifts of all time. They are not in any particular order, just as they occur to me Continue reading →

The children of the so-called Baby Boomer generation, those born in the twelve years or so after the Second World War, are now grandparents and one of the jobs of being a grandparent is to dote on one’s grandchildren. Baby boomers belong to the wealthiest generation that the West has ever seen and that is a good thing, because all this doting is quite expensive. Continue reading →

People all over the world like watching films and films often reflect local traditional stories and folklore. The fascination with ghosts, ghouls and witches is a global phenomenon, but there are more local ones too. Continue reading →