Online Coupons

Seeing a lot of action recently on Groupon and Living Social. I even signed up to get the email alerts...


I wonder if a lot of people are really using them? I know I am tempted every time I get one-although not sure I really need Rumba lessons 1/2 price...For me some of them are more exciting because I commute to NYC. The Suburban online coupons are not as good yet--Side note FourSquare is starting to have great deals in and out of the city!!

I found this post on a blog and thought I'd share it (here is the direct link
http://24sevenpost.com/world-news/16-interesting-fact-on-the-similarity-and-differences-about-living-social-and-groupon/)

Similarity Between Living Social and Groupon
1. Both Living Social and Groupon are coupon based company.
2. Both Living Social and Groupon are trying to make it easier for people to save money by making it easy to share and earn coupons with friends.
3. Both Living Social and Groupon have raised funding in the last couple of months.
4. Both Living Social and Groupon are busy expanding to new cities.
5. Both Living Social and Groupon making good use of social features.
6. Both Living Social and Groupon offer only one deal per day.
7. Both Living Social and Groupon have similar website and comparable average deal prices. (Living Social Website, Groupon Website)
8. Both Living Social and Groupon also offer buy the deal and share it (if three of your friends buy the deal, you get one free), if enough people opt for the deal it makes and you redeem your coupon for the discount.
9. Both Living Social and Groupon’s websites use Facebook Connect to help people find deals according to the geography, then share these deals on Facebook or other social media.
Differences Between Living VS Groupon
1. Groupon is based in Chicago and founded in Nov 2008 as ‘group coupon’ company VS Living Social is based in Washington DC and founded in 2007 as social discovery and cataloging network company.
2. Groupon has 40 million subscriber in 35 countries and 335 cities VS Living Social has 10 million members in 5 countries and 89 cities.
3. Groupon turn down $3 billion offer from Yahoo & $6 billion offer from Google VS Living Social only just get the $175 million investment from Amazon.
4. Groupon get 79% of US traffic VS Living Social get only 8% of US traffic
5. Groupon’s investor are New Enterprise Associates. Eric Lefkofsky, Brad Keywell & Digital Sky Technologies VS Living Social are AOL founder Steve Case, U.S. Venture Partners, Lightspeed Venture Partners & Amazon.
6. Groupon is the pioneer VS Living Social is a clone.
7. Groupon is earning 3 times more than Living Social is making.

What do you think?
Tod

Brooks Brothers Sale

20th Anniversary email came this am...

iPad 2

So Apple sold out of the new iPad 2 within hours of the release...

I know many people who bought the first iPad and they all love it. It is now proven to be a game changer, and the begining of the end of laptops. Soon nobody will carry big bulky laptops (never thought we would call laptops bulky) but instead just an iPad and some cables....

What are your thoughts?

Hope not

Preppy Wines!!!!

When I was out skiing with the family over Christmas break I got a nice email from Amy over at Preppy Vines. She and her crew have followed their true love, making wine!

As many of you may know I follow one of my loves, drinking wine (LOL), so I thought I'd bring their information to you...

I have not have the pleasure of trying one of the two varieties yet. But with names like Preppy Vines Pinot Noir and Popped Collar Pinot they are worth a try, don't you think?

If anyone has tried them yet please let us know! I am always looking for new and fun wines!

Tod

ps. I am always open to share fun ideas with people, just drop me a line (email is under "preppy guy info" just use @ instead of the at

Happy Preppy New Year

I hope everyone has a good New Years, and the best year ahead for 2011!!!

"Tod"

Gift Ideas Help Needed

I got a nice email from a reader Catherine asking :

"Hi,

I stumbled upon your blog while researching a gift for my boyfriend who is the ultimate prep (Nantucket summer home, Exeter Alum, Owns every item from Vineyard Vines)! I need any suggestions/ideas you might have for a birthday gift. He is going to be 32 yrs old and I do NOT know what to get him. PLEASE HELP….

Thanks-

Catherine "

So since the easy stuff of Vineyard Vines or Brooks Brothers is off the table, lets all think of some additional ideas:

One that I like a lot is a monogrammed flask. As it is getting colder this is the perfect gift for those snowy nights!!! And fun to share.

- Other ideas include cigars with a travel holder for 2 or three cigars.

- If your man does not have his own martini set, one would assume he would by 32, that is a great gift.

- how about a trip, just the two of you to someplace you have not been; DC/Georgetown by train perhaps?

- I will continue to think of new ideas, but I always love to ask any blog readers to leave comments and help too...

Let's heard from you guys/girls!!

The weather is great; now complain

We all hear it, "wow it's too hot today", these are the same people who bitch in the winter there is too much snow!

Come on, if you are blessed (YES! BLESSED) enough to live in a place that has four seasons embrace it and LOVE it. New England in my humble option is THE best place in this country to get the most of the four seasons. STOP FINDING ANOTHER REASON TO BITCH!

Don't get me wrong, I am not a fan of oppressive heat and humidity OR so cold in the winter we can't ski or even walk outside. But those days only last a few in a row-the rest are regular seasonal changes.

Enough of my bitching at the bitching tonight, what do you think???

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"Tod"

Nice weather. Let's complain.

Pink & Green Wedding

A reader of the blog emailed me that she is getting married soon and having a pink and green wedding. She asked for some help on some ideas; focusing more on cocktails than flowers I believe LOL

So I send a few suggestions (Email below): Please use the comments section to give your ideas=== anything you think the happy couple could use!!!

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WOW, that will be so much fun. For cocktails the first thing that comes to my mind is the Cape Coder (more vodka to make it pinker LOL)for green anything with Midori in it can get the color, but here are some quick ideas

Apple Martini

Midori Cosmo

green carnation

Green Swizzle
Juice of 1 lime
1 teaspoon icing sugar
soda water
2 dashes bitters
2 oz white rum
1 tablespoon crème de menthe (green) Shot of Creme de Menthe (called Mint Frappe)

Green Tequila
1½ oz tequila
¾ oz melon liqueur
Squeeze of lime
Lime to garnish

Another idea is to have mint frozen in the ice cubes!

Other Pink cocktails:
Razmopolitan

Pink lemonade with Vodka

The Cosmo!

Pink Lady
1 1/2 oz gin
3/4 oz applejack
1/4 oz lemon juice
1-2 dashes grenadine
1 egg white
maraschino cherry for garnish

Pink Martini
2 oz good-quality gin
½ oz guava nectar
½ oz fresh orange juiceorange twist (for garnish)

I know there are dozens more! I would stay away from the green food dye in the beer and probably have bottles of Heineken, Becks and Grolsh

I will ask any of our readers too!!!

PREPPY pop-up at the W‏

I just got this notice, so I want to share with all you Fellow Preppies, if you are in Boston on Thursday stop by the W Hotel and do a little shopping!!!

There’s no better way to soak up summer then with seersucker. Or stripes. Or madras. This is New England, after all -- the epicenter of all things preppy. With that in mind, Boldfacers presents to you a one-night-only Preppy Pop-Up Store on a silver platter (monogrammed, bien sur) this Thursday from 5 to 9 pm at W Boston. Vineyard Vines, E.A. Davis, CK Bradley, and Ame and Lulu lead the preppy pack, along with a DJ and pink and green cocktails. Cheers to Biff and Buffy! Free entrance.

Check out their website for more information :

http://boldfacers.com/index.cfm?page=profile&profile_id=249#fullstory

Must Have for Preppy Men

Last week I saw "10 things a Preppy guy must have" on a great website "Preppy Must have" http://preppymusthave.com/index.html

The list went from needlepoint belts (love them) to the standby Top-Siders and even LL Bean bag (not sure a "must have" but good).

I think all these are great and a fun site.


I think if you have a few minutes jump over to this site and check out the ideas....Do you have any others?

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What is "THE PREPPY" Sport now???

Quick poll on the right, just asking in 2010 what is THE preppy sport?

Thoughts are also welcome under the comments---I will try to throw together a post soon with everyones ideas


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Fashion NO-NO

Guys, preppy or not, please stop the new trend I have seen around this summer ....

Crocs for adults....NOOOOOOO!!!!

I think flip flops from men are great, as long as they are VV or Polo , etc----Sandals are not flip flops and Crocs are worse...I even saw a guy wearing crocs with socks...HELP please!!!


I know I may not be the best dresser, however Crocs on adults should make anyone shiver

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Preppy Towns in America

An old post from way back in 2006 is still is one with the most comments. At the time I solicited ideas for preppy towns in the northeast or even the whole USA. So, I decided to re-open the comments and get a better list together.



This entire list is from readers suggestions only, I have my own ideas and most are on this list---hopefully we can get some additional names from this post and make a total list by summers end!!!

And with this list it seems "Preppy town" may be just where preppy people live? what do YOU think? Any towns missing?

Preppy Towns ( no particular order-YET)

• Greenwich, CT
  Newport, RI
  New Canaan, CT
  Darien, CT
  (Whole Fairfield County, CT)
  Bar Harbor, ME
  Annapolis, MD
  Middleburg, VA
  Leesburg, VA
  Hamptons, NY
  Ridgewood, NJ
  Kennebunkport, ME
  Nantucket, MA
  (Whole Cape Cod, MA)
  Wellesley, MA
  Martha's Vineyard (I Guess he meant the whole Island)
  Harbor Springs, MI
  South Hampton, NY (East is too nouvea -says one reader)
  Grand Traverse, MI
  Charleviox, MI
  Manchester-by-the-sea, MA
  Block Island, RI
  Duxbury, MA
  Weston, MA
  Summit, NJ
  Rumson, NJ
  Essex Fells, NJ
  Hamilton, MA
  Wenham, MA
  Marblehead, MA
  Locust Valley, NY
  Barrington, RI
  Longmeadow, MA
  Grosse Pointe. MI
  
  

Kristen Bell likes Preppy men's clothing

Saw this news, just thought I'd pass it on...Todd




Kristen Bell dresses like a man
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Last updated 05:00 15/06/2010


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DRESS UPS: Kristen Bell likes wearing men's clothing - especially Oxford shirts.
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Kristen Bell likes wearing men's clothing.
The Hollywood star is a huge fashion fan and loves treating herself to new pieces. As she has to dress up so much for her career, she spends most of her spare time in casual clothes, although she does have a penchant for high heels.

"I love clothes but I borrow almost everything," she explained. "I love preppy, classic looks and menswear. It's great that men's Oxford shirts have made such a comeback. Also, like any other woman, I love Christian Louboutin heels - they are to die for."

Although she loves fashion, Kristen has made her fair share of fashion mistakes. She can't believe some of the outfits she used to wear, and does all she can not to look at the pictures from her early career.

Kristen is as careful about her beauty regime as she is with her clothing choices. She has dry skin so won't use abrasive moisturisers, and has also decided against invasive procedures.

"I like hyaluronic acid. I also believe in light therapy where you sit under red or blue lights that are UV safe. The stimulation of the lights can help regenerate skin cells and produce more collagen.

"Over the next eight weeks your skin regenerates," she explained to Look magazine.
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Christmas shopping

I know it's only December 8th, WAY too early for any man to start thinking about Christmas gifts...so why am I ???

Not sure really, maybe all the talk from the Muffy wife talking about kids gifts or all those 24/7 Christmas radio stations...whatever, I am starting to think....No good answers yet, but the 24th is far enough away so no worries..

Question: What are people hoping for this year? (this will help everyone with ideas)...


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Whisky Map

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Funny blog

Looking for more fun blogs, Got this one via Twitter. Still not sure if this Twitter thing is for me, I update a bunch then get busy with real life not this Preppy Persona. Of course I follow as many fun people as possible, but I can't keep up with all the posts.

Most of them are great, I learned about new sailing regattas as well as fashion conversations. Guess I will stick with it as best as I can. It is a little information overload...

Anyway, back to looking for fun blogs when I can add them too.

Suggestions? I will post them here and twitter too if I can.

By "Tod"

What are preppies, Article

Good Article from the Boston Globe:

Let me school you about preppies

By Sam Allis, Globe Staff July 16, 2009

So the Bravo cable channel has given us “NYC Prep,’’ the ludicrous reality show about spoiled rich kids, most of whom attend Upper East Side private schools. Excuse me while I examine my cuticles.

The show has nothing to do with preppies. Real preppies would have nothing to do with it. They’d be laughed out of New Canaan at the mere thought of participating in it. Their parents would disown them.

The kids in the show are nouveaux riche airheads who talk endlessly about shopping. Think Valley Girls and Boys moved east. What they have none of is class.

Worse, this Bravo mess (which airs Tuesdays at 9) misses the essence of preppy culture. The name “preppy,’’ lest we forget, comes from prep schools. And prep schools are, in the cultural sense I’m talking about, boarding schools - not country day or Upper East Side privates. It was on boarding school campuses that true preppies were spawned. The petri dish in which the culture was created and perpetuated was the prep school dormitory.

It is there that one was introduced at a young age to a “Lord of the Flies’’ insular existence that defies description. Essential friendships were forged and enemies made in prep school dormitories. It is where you were introduced to hall hockey and a particular strain of sarcasm.
Preppies are timeless. Wait long enough, and they’re in vogue again. They have never changed. Everyone else has. This speaks to a sense of security on their part rather than a lack of imagination. They never went through their Dolce & Gabbana phase.

Preppies gave America the sport coat - an advance on par with the wheel - and pioneered the blue blazer. They gave us khakis - and they really are pronounced like “car keys’’ in Southie - along with polo jerseys, the two-button suit, button-down collars, the list goes on. To dismiss this as preppy is to miss the point. We’re talking classic, conservative men’s clothes.

When the Gap started push ing khakis over a decade ago, I’d see billboards with the coolest of the cool - Miles Davis - in khakis. Jazz legends like Davis and Chet Baker, I have on good authority, wore preppy clothes. They didn’t buy them because they were preppy - they had never heard of the word - but they liked the understatement of the clothes after the loud outfits in jazz that had preceded them.

I write about preppies from the remove of decades after my own boarding school experience, which I thoroughly enjoyed. But prep school culture has changed dramatically since then. The robust multiculturalism on today’s boarding school campuses, fueled by institutional wealth unavailable in public schools, has replaced the negativity that used to dominate prep school culture.

Today, there is an ethos to do good, here and abroad, among the good boarding schools that was nonexistent in the old days. You’re more likely to see kids from Ghana and India at the big affluent places like Andover and Exeter than flaxen-haired lacrosse players from Locust Valley.
Whatever allure in preppies there may be now is anchored in the past. It speaks to an old world of exclusion and exclusivity, of final clubs and blackballs, of pumps with black tie and the Social Register. (Whatever happened to the Social Register anyway?)

There is a wistfulness to this whole preppy thing that reminds me of Jay Gatsby, Fitzgerald’s great fake who stared into the night at the green light at Daisy Buchanan’s dock across the bay, aching for the woman.

The reigning king of preppy wistfulness remains Ralph Lauren, born Ralph Lifshitz in the Bronx, who has created the ultimate illusionary preppy world. His efforts are nothing if not about a yearning for a past he never knew. His ads relentlessly portray a life of white flannel, wooden tennis racquets, and elegant old cars.

His threads are beautiful, in contrast to parvenus like Vineyard Vines, an upstart that makes clothes for men and women that are parodies of preppiness. J.Crew still answers the bell because it sells smart preppy knockoffs.

The preppy look, it should be noted, is global. When I lived in Italy during the ’80s, I bought a pair of Timberlands in the great city of Bologna, home of the oldest university in Europe. In Italy and France, rich kids wore alligator jerseys with collars up and striped Brooks Brothers button-downs. Ditto for the well-heeled in Latin America.

The choice of preppy clothes among the young and rich abroad had nothing to do with the past. It was simply a matter of style. Remember, it was in France that the alligator jersey (Chemise Lacoste) was born. Countless American kids today want them simply because they look good, oblivious to any larger meaning.

“NYC Prep,’’ ludicrous and dispiriting, has zero to do with the true preppy culture, which means old preppy culture. Love it or hate it, the real thing is pretty much sepia-toned by now. Every once in awhile, marketers will try to sell patch madras or seersucker again. What they’re selling is the past. No one drinks gin and bitters anymore, but who cares?

Sam Allis can be reached at: allis@globe.com



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