I love looking at all of the promotional items that are out for sale these days that many businesses give a way in order to keep their name and number embedded in people’s brains in hopes of bringing in and keeping their customers that are becoming hard to find these days since we are still in such an economic turmoil. I love attending Trade Shows where you can always count on coming home with a bag full of goodies such as these. One of the last Trade Show’s I attended I walked away with a decent pair of promotional sunglasses that I just love to wear to protect my eyes all year around. And the fact that they are made out of recycled materials just makes them even more special. I’m surprised I haven’t lost them yet, it figures that I lose the expensive sun glasses and can some how manage to hold on to this free pair.
Gone are the days that you will only find calendars, pens and pencils used for promotional use. Branders.com is a great place to see all of the goodies that they have to offer and they will even send you a free sample. I sent away for one of their pens some time ago, I actually forgot all about it until I got a package in my mailbox last week and found that they had indeed sent me the free pen that I requested. That was a pleasant surprise! I’m picky about my writing pens and this one fits the bill perfectly and for FREE!
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I was one of the people that were not granted a green thumb what so ever. It doesn’t matter if it is an outside plant or and inside plant, I fear they are doomed with me as their care taker. My mother had the best green thumb in the neighborhood with all of her beautiful window boxes that adorned many of the lower level windows back at the home stead. Everyone always complimented her on how see keep these treasured windowboxes looking their best each year.
I was given two lovely garden window boxes a few years back as a Mother’s Day gift and I still am not having any luck with those buggers no matter how hard I try and no matter what I do or plant in them. I’ve gotten to the point where they are now in the garage ready to put up for sale at one of our yard sales that we will be holding come next spring, I just give up. I don’t want to hurt anyone’s feelings that gave me this gift but I just can’t deal with the thought of trying anymore.
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For the last decade or so we have been experiencing some very dry summers, so the need for rain harvesting has been increasing around here. My parents always had rain water barrels at the old homestead, so it isn’t like it is a new concept to me what so ever, but I just never got around to get my own rail barrel. I have decided to start looking around at various websites that have rain barrels for sale and I have been surprised at the variety of these rain barrels that have made their way to the markets.
The ones that we had at home we just the plain old wooden barrels with the metals straps around them and that was what I was expecting to see online. But now a days they have them made from plastic, vinyl, polyester and as well as wooden ones that just look more modern that the ones that I was used to seeing. All the different shapes, sizes, prices, heights, widths and gallon sizes are making the decision on which type to go ahead and order more of a task than I thought. I’m in no hurry but I really would like to get one as soon as possible and start putting it to good use. It’s all good!
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Back in August when we experienced Hurricane Irene the mailboxes on our street really took a hit. So I have decided to go ahead and start the process of finding a new and improved mailbox to put at the end of our driveway. It is important to have a good quality mailbox that properly displays the name and the house phone in case of any emergency personnel being called to come and assist any of us, especially at night. So I want to take that in consideration as well.
I have found some nice whitehall mailboxes online that I’m really interested in. I love that they offer free shipping on all of their whitehall products and have a 30 day no hassle return policy. I figure on passing the link to their website to several of my neighbors that have email and need to have a new mailbox themselves. I’m not trying to be nosey or pushy, just trying to be a good neighbor.
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I have finally had about enough of the hard water issues that we have been dealing with since moving in her years ago. Seriously I don’t know why I have even waited this long to look into purchasing a decent water softener that will help in so many areas for all of us. The staining is my major issue, while my daughter has severe dry skin problems that is being blamed on the hard water as well.
Gonna start looking around online and seeing what good deals I can come up with, it’s all about the money folks!
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