Luxury brands still sold handbags while holiday flights got wrecked.
Hannah
There is a window in town with a bag on a pedestal, lit as if it were a small painting. I do not want the bag. I want to understand…
Economics
Food prices finally calmed down — because the big shops were scared to go first.
I have started keeping receipts, which is not a personality I planned. Not in a scrapbook. In the inside pocket of my bag, until they turn pale and I throw…
The war thousands of miles away is about to show up on the electricity bill.
I left my lamp on again while I was reading. My mum say the sentence she always say, the one about the bill, and I almost answer that a lamp…
The same holiday flight cost about a quarter more than last year.
There is a family chat that only wake up when someone say the word “flights.” It woke up this week. A parent had searched a summer date we talked about…
Netflix went up by as much as $2 a month. Again.
The email arrived the way they always do: polite, designed, a little proud of itself. Netflix is going up. Again. On 26 March they raise US prices for the second…
Cocoa beans got much cheaper. The Easter egg did not.
The Easter aisle arrived in the supermarket while I was still wearing a coat. Eggs in foil. Bunnies in boxes stacked too high. A price that make my mum do…
Netflix almost bought Harry Potter’s studio — then said the price was too high.
Last Sunday I rewatched a Harry Potter film because I had a World Literature paragraph to finish and a bad habit of rewarding myself first. Halfway through, a thought arrive…
A court said many US tariffs were illegal. Prices did not suddenly fall.
I still have a Shein bag folded under my bed from last year. The top inside cost less than my bus fare and a drink. I wore it twice, then…
TikTok in America got new owners. The For You page may change.
On 22 January, ByteDance close a deal that put TikTok in America into a joint venture called TikTok USDS. Most of it will be owned by American and global investors.…
A Chinese car brand sold more electric cars than Tesla for the first time.
The numbers land on 2 January, which is a rude date for a plot twist. Tesla deliver about 1.64 million cars in 2025, down nearly 9%. BYD, a Chinese brand…