One major holiday down, one to go. We hope all of you LifeStyler readers had a fantastic Thanksgiving Holiday (and long weekend), complete with home cooked meals and family gatherings. Ours consisted of alternately inhaling baked macaroni and candied yams while watching old Twilight Zone re-runs on the tube. But then we got down to business and compiled our favorite posts from the month of November in our monthly mashup of cheap, thrifty, and fabulous articles from LifeStyler and beyond the blogosphere. Keep reading for our November Editor’s Picks.

On Friday, the New York Daily News ran a story about Damon Dash, the co-founder of Roc-A-Fella Records(most famous for a little rapper you may have heard of named Jay-Z) and the accompanying Rocawear clothing line. Dash, who just a few years ago looked to be the second coming of Russell Simmons, is now in the poor house.