by Mir | Aug 3, 2006 | Product Talk, Quick Tips
All of the stores near me are starting their back-to-school crazy specials, like spiral notebooks for a dime and such. While shopping yesterday for some other items, I took the kids to browse through school stuff and picked up a few things they’ll be needing. I...
by Mir | Aug 2, 2006 | Hot Hot Hot!, Quick Tips
With the advent of cheap, disposable plastic food storage, I have gratefully switched over to mostly using the sorts of containers that you can buy at the grocery store in multi-packs. Then when I find myself growing science experiments in the back of the fridge, I...
by Mir | Jul 31, 2006 | Quick Tips
Remember how I said that I hardly ever have to actually buy souvenirs for my kids when I travel? This trip did not fail to live up to swag expectations. My children are oohing and aahing over the t-shirts, rulers with embedded caculators, fancy pens, and post-it...
by Mir | Jul 28, 2006 | Quick Tips
Good morning! This little tidbit is something I learned from Carmen yesterday, and she had bags of coffee to prove it, so it must be true. Apparently Starbucks takes the bottom cup of beans or so from every industrial-sized bag they use and wrap them up and give them...
by Mir | Jul 26, 2006 | Quick Tips
As some of you know, I’m now out in California for BlogHer, and between the time change and the complete inability to stop talking to and licking people, my posting schedule will be a bit light. Today’s tip: Here at the Hyatt, when you try to connect to...
by Mir | Jul 13, 2006 | Hot Hot Hot!, Quick Tips
Have you ever been placing an order for something at Amazon, and you realize you need just a few more dollars to get up to Free Super Saver Shipping? And then you spend an hour hunting around for a filler item to get you over the $25 mark? Yeah, that’s never...