One advantage of this house is there is very little carpet, which makes cleaning up after pets and children much easier than it would be if the house did have carpet. Yet with furniture it still comes in handy to have a steam cleaner, especially to clean up the pet messes. Not to [...]

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In what will probably be the shopping search that will never end, I still have not found a watch that I like that I can afford. Yet I do keep finding out about watch makers that I did not know about before, like Bell and Ross who has a great line of nice timepieces. [...]

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I’m a fan of buying used whenever I can, many times you can save quite a bit of money over something new. In the tech/business world this is something that many businesses don’t do. It’s very possible to save quite a bit when it comes to buying tech equipment especially used cisco servers. [...]

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At times I can’t help but think of things that I know others might find silly, but have you ever wondered when you hear the phrase, “Throw everything but the kitchen sink” if that would include throwing kitchen faucets or would they be considered part of the kitchen sink?
Now, if I’ve made you start pondering [...]

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I’ve been making cd’s to take with us on the drive to California, so I’ve been going through all of my old songs. This song was one that my kids enjoyed singing, as loud as possible. Yes, probably because the word “Sex” was in the title…So – Marcy Playground, “I smell sex and [...]

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Vacation packages can at times save you a great deal of money compared to booking a room and events separately. This is especially true when it comes to some of the Branson package getaways that I recently looked at. Take the “Great American Package” as an example, it includes; 4 Days/3 Nights at [...]

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It’s not that I don’t think that there are some great games out there for the playstation 2 or the playstation 3 since I know some of them look appealing. It’s not that I am afraid I would get too addicted to the game playing as I’ve seen happen with some that I know. [...]

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I’m the person that almost everyone calls when they are looking for information on line for a variety of items from looking up how long to cook a particular kind of fish, to using google maps as their own personal GPS locator to giving advice on where to turn for medicare supplement information. While [...]

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I was reading with interest this article in Newsweek on the “8 Forbidden foods” that many seem to believe are “to die for” (especially in the case with Fugu) but I have to honestly say with the exception of the Lobsters? I think I could lead a comfortable life without ever trying foie gras [...]

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I dropped hints but unfortunately no one appears to have listened, since what I really wanted was a nice set of wind chimes for either the front porch or the back deck or both. We had a set of wind chimes last year but someone took them and I had not replaced them. [...]

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For those who embrace a totally vegan lifestyle this goes beyond not just eating any animal products, this can also extend to clothing and even things like your shoes. Most people don’t stop to realize if they have leather soles as an example, that shoe would contribute to the death of animals. [...]

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While I understand the support of local food markets and local produce, the reality is that our food choices are limited if we rely totally on the local seasonal market. Yet a Chef in England wants fines to be put in place for those who do so:
Celebrity British chef Gordon Ramsay said restaurants should [...]

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Yes, you can tell I’m in a Monty Python mood with the play on words in the title. However when my one daughter bought a dell computer and called me to look for some additional dell memory for it, the title came to mind. In addition to being Mom GPS, the appointment scheduler, [...]

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