Penny For My Thoughts

I went to the AAA Travel Marketplace today, as I have for the past two years.   While I had a good time and got lots of free goodies, I did notice a decline in some of the booths; offerings-namely, there was no chocolate fountain in the Western MA area, nor was the Essex giving away [...]

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And I have to say, Groupon gets a rousing thumbs-up from me.  They were very different Groupons-one to a restaurant, one to a store.  The restaurant one was easy as anything to redeem and use,  if you’ve ever redeemed a Restaurant.com gift certificate you can do it.
My other Groupon, sand the one I’d like to [...]

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I love shopping online, but I hate the following:  buying items on sites which a)charge shipping, b) I can’t get cashback on Sunshine Rewards, or c)  I can’t find any reviews about them.  I’ve recently made purchases on two such sites, and I thought I’d offer my review to the web on them.
The first is [...]

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As a disclaimer, I’m only including my personal opinion here, your mileage may vary.
With the new glut of college graduates coming onto the job market soon, as well as the ever-increasing number of people who have been laid off, I thought that a review of the three Boston-area agencies I used in 2006 may be [...]

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As I’ve mentioned before, I’m a BzzAgent.  I was recently given the opportunity to sample Fruit2Day.  As I frequently drink premium juice smoothies rather than eat breakfast, I was very excited to try them.  I have tried both the CherryGrape and PinappleBanana flavors.  I really liked them-while not as filling as the smoothies, their size [...]

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You know I love purses, right?  So when I saw that the fabulous Kim* of All About Kimberly was hosting a giveaway for a Closet Purse Hanger, I had to enter.  Lo and behold, I won.  The package came this week, and I just got around to trying them.  I like that they’re easy-just hang [...]

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As I’ve mentioned before, I am a BzzAgent, and as such am often sent items to review and Bzz about.  A few weeks ago, they sent me Diet Mountain Dew.  Now, I had previously sworn off Mountain Dew altogether due to a week in college involving multiple papers, and 1 2 liter of Mountain Dew.  [...]

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Aldi’s:  We finally had our spaghetti sauce we got there (Mama Cosi’s).  It wasn’t horrible, a touch too sweet, but for sauce that cheap what do you expect.  We did; however, feel that the cheap sauce at Trader Joe’s (which we weren’t crazy about) was better.
Afrin Pure Sea nasal rinse:  As you may recall, I [...]

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I am a BzzAgent, and they recently sent me information, coupons and a sample of The Fragrance Collection by Glade’s products.  They sent me the currents and acai candle.  Now, I’m not a big candle person, as a)I’m always terrified they will burn when I forget to put them out, and b)I spent a summer [...]

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I think I first heard about Aldi on the internet, then I saw a piece on them on Food Network’s Unwrapped.  I was intrigued-the concept of a discount grocery store appealed to me, plus the same company owns Trader Joe’s, which I love like crazy.  We passed an Aldi’s when tending to some of the [...]

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