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Our family has special dietary needs – no gluten, no dairy, and no berries. This means that a lot of our dessert ingredients are different from others. It doesn’t mean that they taste any worse, though! We have a family favorite called “Better than Brownies” because, well, they are better than regular [...]

Whenever I shop online, I try to use Coupons so that I don’t pay as much for my items. However, sometimes coupon sites can be difficult to negotiate or don’t have a large number of merchants. In either case, I end up having to go to several coupon sites before I can find [...]

I received a sample of Freeze It in the mail a while ago, and then again yesterday. I was in a lot of pain today, and decided to try it for my moderate to severe chronic joint and muscle pain. I had been using Bio-Freeze, but it is difficult to find – I either [...]

While I enjoy camping, I have to be honest and say that my favorite method of travel involves soft beds, pools, and room service. I’m definitely more of a hotel person than a tent person. I get easily intimidated, though, by the many different reservation and “cheap rate” websites out there – I find them [...]

End-of-season sales can be amazing (picking up a $50 dress for $3), or disappointing (seeing the $50 dress for $45). The end-of-season sale at Online Discount Mart falls somewhere in the middle. However if you enter ’summersavings’ at Checkout, you can save an extra 10% on summery merchandise. Saving more is always [...]

We went to my grandmother’s assisted living home yesterday for a post-funeral reception. We had last been there near Christmas for a party honoring both of my grandparents, and there were great pictures of them giving presents to their great-grandchildren.

As my grandparents age, it’s hard to see them and/or their siblings begin to lose [...]

How do you heat your home? In our house in Texas we used gas, but a lot of people had electric heat. In Connecticut we also had gas heat. We never had trouble with either of those. Now we have oil heat and a new burner, and it goes out at [...]