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Happy & Healthy at Duane Reade
I've been a frugal shopper for some time now, but I lack in preparedness sometimes when it comes to food and drugstore shopping. I've been trying to get better at looking for coupons and taking advantage of bargains, when I go to these stores . Last week, I had some Duane Reade gift cards so I wanted to go there to get some summer shopping done. We always need to stock up on things for the beach and in the name of fiscal responsibility, I figured I could use gift cards and Balance Rewards for those purchases. Sometimes, shopping ahead of time for the beach is a problem because I often don't know what I need until I need it. This is our fourth year at our beach club and every year I think I'm prepared until I get there and wish I had this or that. This time, I decided to look the the DR Happy & Healthy Magazine for some inspiration and maybe even a coupon or two. The first thing I spotted in the magazine was a coupon for something called heel balm. With flip flop season upon me and old(er) age getting to me, I need all the help I can get with my feet. So, heel cream it is! I even saved a buck using a coupon from Happy & Healthy. Totally unrelated to summer, except that it provides beach waves, I was psyched when I came across The Conair Curl Evolution, … [Read More...]
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Just Saying No. Is there an app for that?
WARNING:I’m about to get some serious preach on. Judgy McJudgerson is in the house. I was reading an article in the New York Times the other day about how the iPhone has become the hot new toy for toddlers. What? The article went on to profile a couple families. One of them had a toddler [...]
How… And Why to Ensure Family Dinner
Thanks to Walgreens for sponsoring my writing today. Help Walgreens help others! Visit their Facebook page here to learn about their charitable partners and decide which cause Walgreens will donate to with a quick vote. I know, I know, you get home from work, pick up kids from practice or club meetings then they have [...]
Bookends
The teeming rain kept The Girl and The Baby up late last night. He just kept weeping and when I asked him why he’d answer, “I don’t know.” It was pitiful. (FTR-when The Husband asked him, he answered that his ear hurt. Guess he needs concrete reasons for dad.)The Girl just kept walking the halls. [...]
Role Reversal
The Husband had to take the kids to a birthday party Sunday. I love when He has to do “mom” things. It’s not that he’s not capable, of course he is. It’s just fun to watch him realize there is never just one layer to anything in this job. Sunday morning The Middle One had [...]
Real Life
The Husband and I went on a proper date last night. We had dinner out and then saw a concert. The concert was Phil Vassar who I maintain has written the soundtrack of my life with songs like this and this and really, this. It was lovely. I have a million things to say about [...]
How Seattle’s Best Helped Me #TakeBackMyMorning
I have a long and complicated relationship with coffee. It started in college where I started with the gateway lattes as a way to train myself to like coffee because everyone cool was hanging at the Blue Moose Cafe having coffee so I’d better learn how to tolerate it. Then in my adulthood, I drank [...]
Aw, Man! I forgot…
to teach my kid to tie her shoes. It’s bad enough she has to get over the trauma of wearing “boy shoes” (the brown doc martens that go with the school uniform) but they are the FIRST pair of shoes she has ever owned with laces. She’s a girly-girl. It has been nothing but ballet [...]
