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Archive for December, 2009
Remember Them – What They Look Like Now
2009 21, 1256 Uses For A Pencil
2009 21, 12
1. Use them as chop sticks. It is best to not sharpen them before in order to avoid any further accidents.
2. Use two to play drums. Just synchronize and start playing.
3. Good for sword fighting. Mini sword duels are the best when having less work or when you just want to play with your kids in the house on a rainy day.
4. Hippie Hairdo holder. Girls use pencils to quickly arrange their hair or you get a funky punky look. If you want to look cooler, use colored or funny design pencils.
5. Door stop. Ideal when you just want to get outside for a few moments and do not want to take the key or to be locked outside.
6. Clean your muddy shoe treads. After a short run in the park or a short trip in the mountains it’s time to clean the shoes and this is no easy work. But if you use the pencil you will finish the job faster.
7. Chew them when nervous. Or just because you have a bad habit that you can get over it.
8. Funny poses. Stick them in your ears, up your nose or under your lip just like fangs. This is a quick and easy way to lighten up someone’s mood.
9. Darts arrows. Sharp them so they are quite pointy and play darts from close range
10. Measuring tool. When you have no other measuring tools around, the pencil is quite a saver.
11. Clean your ears with the erasers. Kind of yucky, but many do it. Look at your colleagues to see if you catch them red handed.
12. Pinwheel. Make one out of paper and stick it with a pin onto the pencil’s eraser
13. Fetch stick for your dog. Not very fancy but the dog will love it. Hopefully the pencil will last in the dog’s mouth so you can play longer.
14. Back scratcher. It’s so hard to reach sometimes to the place where you have that awful itch but the pencil will save the day.
15. Cat toy. I guarantee that the cat will play with it for hours and could even get addicted. Mine did!
16. Magic wand. This is a cheap and handy object that with a few add-ons can become a cute, magic wand in the hands of your little girl.
17. Reach for something in places out of reach. Like under the bed, the closet, between two furniture objects etc.
18. Foot scratcher so you don’t have to take off your shoe. I can not stand those itches. I feel the need to scratch immediately. I guess is better to scratch with the pencil rather to take your shoes off, right?
19. Pointer. This is a no-brainer.
20. Dexterity exercises. When I am tired I find this quite relaxing and it also helps my reflexes.
21. Time waster. You can do this by simply bouncing the pen in the eraser as many times as you can (without getting extremely bored).
22. Use it as a plane and fly it in the air.
23. Button pusher. For the lazy of us!
24. Kindling. You might need more than two-three pencils for this.
25. Buy more pencils and play pick up stick with them. It will be fun.
26. Prop something light with it.
27. Use it as a weapon. If is sharpened it can work as a small knife.
28. As a ruler. You can use it to draw a straight line.
29. Bookmark. Not the best solution but it works.
30. Make a hole in soil to plant seeds. It’s quick and effective
31. Plug up a hole.
32. Stir drinks. Still, use it at home not at the bar.
33. Support a plant. Is very useful for small plants
34. Make holes in plastic wrap that is around new products. Quite useful when you do not have scissors.
35. “Cut” the duct tape on sealed boxes.
36. Push stuff down into the kitchen sink if it gets caught in the drain.
37. Sculpture. Just get a knife and start crafting. (Look close; it’s a cat and a mouse)
38. Long dice. Write the number on each side and good luck!
39. Ice remover. Be careful not to scratch the surface. Make a test on a smaller, hidden zone.
40. Miniature sundial. You can do this with your kids.
41. Splint. This is can be part of a first aid treatment applied quickly.
42. Colored pencil shavings can be used to make a nice picture.
43. Frame for a small teepee. To remember your scouts days.
44. The base of a miniature water vehicle like a raft. It may work, why not?
45. 8 pencils can be used to hold toes apart while polish dries. It may be difficult to walk, though.
46. Grab gross things with two pencils. This doesn’t need more explanation.
47. Search with a pen among nails, screws and other pointy, sharp objects.
48. Use a pencil to roll out the last drops in the toothpaste tube or else.
49. The graphite is a dry lubricant and it can loosen up sticky locks.
50. Use a bit of the eraser to hold your pierced earrings into the ear if you just lost the back piece.
51. Duplicate a pattern. Place paper on an embossed wall panel, tile, or incised woodwork and lightly scribble over the surface to transfer the details.
52. Rub out grime. Some pencils erasers contain pumice. You can use the mild abrasive to shine a brass doorknob, remove scuff marks from a tile floor, or scour off sticker residue on a window.
53. Writing in the sand. You can write a sweet declaration for your lover in the sand at a glance. All you have to do is to have the pencil with you
54. Cuticle stick. Ladies know what I am talking about.
55. Get stuff out of the heater vent. Be careful not to drop the pencil in there as well.
56. Tracing shapes. For fun or for your project.
Frugal: Dollar Stores FYI
2009 21, 12Dollar Stores by Garen Daly, at The Frugal Yankee
Do you know what things you can safely buy in a dollar store?
Do you know what things you can safely buy in a dollar store?
“…stay away from the following dollar store products:
Batteries – Look closely at the package. Many of them are
knock-offs, made in the Far East with inferior materials. They
leak acid and don’t last as long as other, well-known brands.
You may save on the up front cost, but replacements or damage
will cost more. Children’s Toys and Jewelry – “Consumer Reports” has found
many of these items to have high concentrations of lead. The
countries of origin lack the government oversight or have lax
regulations. If you do want to buy, look at the label closely.
Where was it made? Is it a brand name? Again the Frugal Yankee
suggests staying away from these, especially for babies and
toddlers who put everything in their mouth. Paper Goods – Again this is usually an inferior product. Foam
cups and paper plates are the most frequently cited example of
bad products. You can find better deals and better products at
a good warehouse store. (The exception is party goods for
little kids. If you find the princess or monster truck theme
that your child wants, go ahead. You’ll use them for about 10
minutes and the quality isn’t much of an issue.) Vitamins – Name brand purchased by dollar stores may be a
deal, but look closely at the expiration date. Expired
vitamins defeat the purpose. Food – Tread carefully here. There can be some bargains, but
read the entire label carefully, especially if you don’t
recognize the brand. Look not only at the expiration date but
also at the ingredients and where it was made. Then make an
informed decision. Electrical Products – Knock-offs from other countries should
be avoided. They are simply not up to the standard we are
accustomed to. Look at the cords and the construction. If
anything looks “off,” avoid it. See if it has a UL label on
it. That is usually a sign of minimum quality standards. Toothpaste – In 2007, most of us heard how certain toothpaste
from China had nasty chemicals in those seemingly innocuous
looking tubes. Even if you were to buy it from a dollar store,
prices at pharmacies and supermarkets are usually competitive,
so why bother? Peanuts – The recent salmonella scandal with peanuts and
peanut butter should be a wake up call for everyone. But did
you know that the first recall did not include dollar stores
even though they had a bunch on the shelves? Our advice is to
stay away from peanuts and peanut butter in dollar stores for
some time. Looking at the above list carefully, there are a few
constants. These constants are good advice for any shopper,
any place and any time. Read the label carefully. Check the
expiration date. Know the country of origin. Know the
ingredients. Does the package looked damaged? Make your
purchases smarter and safer. Ask one more question. Can I buy this item someplace else for
a better price and/or higher quality? Often, warehouse stores
offer better prices for bulk purchases. You can stock up at
sales in supermarkets and drugstore chains. Consider both when
shopping. OK, with all that, what are the good deals in dollar stores? Gift-Wrap – This is especially true right after a holiday.
Prices for gift-wrap, ribbons, and greeting cards are
remarkably low. Cleaning Supplies – Like many products, cleaning supplies go
through fads or seasons. What may be the hot product one year
quickly becomes dollar store shelf filler the next. Perhaps
this is because the manufacturer has introduced a new scent.
There is no reason to avoid these products just because they
are no longer hot. They still will clean, as long as the
expiration date hasn’t been reached. Kitchen Accessories – A sharp shopper can score with kitchen
accessories. Sometimes these items are simply out of fashion,
sometimes they are imported and sometimes the dollar store
scored on a close out. Just be careful about where it is made
and what you are using it for. After a brief period of use, kitchen towels or potholders will
get stained and worn. No amount of laundering helps. Recycle
them or toss them. Expensive or inexpensive, the same fate
awaits. Dollar stores are the place to pick up the fresh ones. Food – Yeah, I know that’s in the “be very careful” category
but read the labels. Good products at good prices can be
found. The Frugal Yankee found some very good coffee for $3.50
a pound that normally would sell for about $9 a pound. Be
sharp, be savvy and scores can be found. If it is a huge
score, why not stock up? Office/School Supplies – There is no expiration date. There is
little chance for contamination from lead or other chemicals.
So paper, erasers and many school/office supplies are decent
deals. Again compare prices at a discount office store before
committing. Plastics – Buckets, bins, organizers, clothes hangers, and the
like can be good deals. If you expect heavy use, hold out for
a national brand. If you just want to organize some things on
a shelf, these will be fine. I have one more caution. It’s easy to toss a lot of little
things into the shopping cart when prices are low. Dollar
stores count on that impulse. Don’t clutter your life with
useless deals. Resist the cute little vase, a spoon rest, or
an auto deodorizer. There are more products, but the most important thing to
remember about dollar stores is simply this. These stores make
a living on finding low priced goods and then selling them.
Where the goods come from, how long they have been around or
what’s in them is not necessarily closely inspected by the
store. When shopping dollar stores, do so knowing you have to
be the one making the smart decisions. You are not paying
someone to do that for you.
knock-offs, made in the Far East with inferior materials. They
leak acid and don’t last as long as other, well-known brands.
You may save on the up front cost, but replacements or damage
will cost more. Children’s Toys and Jewelry – “Consumer Reports” has found
many of these items to have high concentrations of lead. The
countries of origin lack the government oversight or have lax
regulations. If you do want to buy, look at the label closely.
Where was it made? Is it a brand name? Again the Frugal Yankee
suggests staying away from these, especially for babies and
toddlers who put everything in their mouth. Paper Goods – Again this is usually an inferior product. Foam
cups and paper plates are the most frequently cited example of
bad products. You can find better deals and better products at
a good warehouse store. (The exception is party goods for
little kids. If you find the princess or monster truck theme
that your child wants, go ahead. You’ll use them for about 10
minutes and the quality isn’t much of an issue.) Vitamins – Name brand purchased by dollar stores may be a
deal, but look closely at the expiration date. Expired
vitamins defeat the purpose. Food – Tread carefully here. There can be some bargains, but
read the entire label carefully, especially if you don’t
recognize the brand. Look not only at the expiration date but
also at the ingredients and where it was made. Then make an
informed decision. Electrical Products – Knock-offs from other countries should
be avoided. They are simply not up to the standard we are
accustomed to. Look at the cords and the construction. If
anything looks “off,” avoid it. See if it has a UL label on
it. That is usually a sign of minimum quality standards. Toothpaste – In 2007, most of us heard how certain toothpaste
from China had nasty chemicals in those seemingly innocuous
looking tubes. Even if you were to buy it from a dollar store,
prices at pharmacies and supermarkets are usually competitive,
so why bother? Peanuts – The recent salmonella scandal with peanuts and
peanut butter should be a wake up call for everyone. But did
you know that the first recall did not include dollar stores
even though they had a bunch on the shelves? Our advice is to
stay away from peanuts and peanut butter in dollar stores for
some time. Looking at the above list carefully, there are a few
constants. These constants are good advice for any shopper,
any place and any time. Read the label carefully. Check the
expiration date. Know the country of origin. Know the
ingredients. Does the package looked damaged? Make your
purchases smarter and safer. Ask one more question. Can I buy this item someplace else for
a better price and/or higher quality? Often, warehouse stores
offer better prices for bulk purchases. You can stock up at
sales in supermarkets and drugstore chains. Consider both when
shopping. OK, with all that, what are the good deals in dollar stores? Gift-Wrap – This is especially true right after a holiday.
Prices for gift-wrap, ribbons, and greeting cards are
remarkably low. Cleaning Supplies – Like many products, cleaning supplies go
through fads or seasons. What may be the hot product one year
quickly becomes dollar store shelf filler the next. Perhaps
this is because the manufacturer has introduced a new scent.
There is no reason to avoid these products just because they
are no longer hot. They still will clean, as long as the
expiration date hasn’t been reached. Kitchen Accessories – A sharp shopper can score with kitchen
accessories. Sometimes these items are simply out of fashion,
sometimes they are imported and sometimes the dollar store
scored on a close out. Just be careful about where it is made
and what you are using it for. After a brief period of use, kitchen towels or potholders will
get stained and worn. No amount of laundering helps. Recycle
them or toss them. Expensive or inexpensive, the same fate
awaits. Dollar stores are the place to pick up the fresh ones. Food – Yeah, I know that’s in the “be very careful” category
but read the labels. Good products at good prices can be
found. The Frugal Yankee found some very good coffee for $3.50
a pound that normally would sell for about $9 a pound. Be
sharp, be savvy and scores can be found. If it is a huge
score, why not stock up? Office/School Supplies – There is no expiration date. There is
little chance for contamination from lead or other chemicals.
So paper, erasers and many school/office supplies are decent
deals. Again compare prices at a discount office store before
committing. Plastics – Buckets, bins, organizers, clothes hangers, and the
like can be good deals. If you expect heavy use, hold out for
a national brand. If you just want to organize some things on
a shelf, these will be fine. I have one more caution. It’s easy to toss a lot of little
things into the shopping cart when prices are low. Dollar
stores count on that impulse. Don’t clutter your life with
useless deals. Resist the cute little vase, a spoon rest, or
an auto deodorizer. There are more products, but the most important thing to
remember about dollar stores is simply this. These stores make
a living on finding low priced goods and then selling them.
Where the goods come from, how long they have been around or
what’s in them is not necessarily closely inspected by the
store. When shopping dollar stores, do so knowing you have to
be the one making the smart decisions. You are not paying
someone to do that for you.
How To Tell If Your Feet Smell Very Bad
2009 10, 12 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
How to tell if your feet smell very bad. Keep on scrolling down.……
MEDICAL TEST –
STARE INTO THE CAT’S EYES FOR 10 SECONDS ….
Then Scroll Down
NOW STARE IN THE PUPPY’S EYES FOR 10 SECONDS…
Scroll Down
Your CAT SCAN
And LAB TESTS
Are now complete
– couldn’t resist….
Do you feel like working today?
Tomorrow?
The day after?
Next week?
Next Month?
Me neither!
I just want to party!
You…
…have a GREAT Day!!!
Life is short! Break the rules! Forgive quickly! Kiss slowly!
Love truly, Laugh uncontrollably .
And never regret anything that made you smile.
Quotes From Famous People About Money
2009 10, 12People love quoting famous people. Whether the celebrity in question is a genius or not, we love a good sound byte. We’ve collected quotes from presidents, movie stars, philosophers, athletes, and even Paris Hilton on everybody’s favorite topic:
Money
1. “Early to bed, early to rise, keeps you healthy, wealthy and wise.” – Benjamin Franklin
2. “For I don’t care too much for money, for money can’t buy me love.” – The Beatles
3. “Money is like a sixth sense – and you can’t make use of the other five without it.” – William Somerset Maugham
4. “A penny saved is a penny earned.” – Benjamin Franklin
5. “Time is more valuable than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time.” – Jim Rohn
6. “Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves.” – Albert Einstein
7. “Money, if it does not bring you happiness, will at least help you be miserable in comfort.” – Helen Gurley Brown
8. “Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.” – Woody Allen
9. “Money is not the most important thing in the world. Love is. Fortunately, I love money.” – Jackie Mason
10. “If you would be wealthy, think of saving as well as getting.” – Ben Franklin
11. “What difference does it make how much you have? What you do not have amounts to much more.” – Seneca
12. “If you want to know what God thinks about money, just look at the people He gives it to.” – Dorothy Parker
13. “Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result misery.” – Charles Dickens
14. “It doesn’t matter if you’re black or white… the only color that really matters is green.” – Family Guy
15. “My problem lies in reconciling my gross habits with my net income.” – Errol Flynn
16. “If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some.” – Benjamin Franklin
17. “Money is the opposite of the weather. Nobody talks about it, but everybody does something about it.” – Rebecca Johnson
18. “Lack of money is the root of all evil.” – George Bernard Shaw
19. “The mint makes it first, it is up to you to make it last.” – Evan Esar
20. “What we really want to do is what we are really meant to do. When we do what we are meant to do, money comes to us, doors open for us, we feel useful, and the work we do feels like play to us.” – Julia Cameron
21. “Money is usually attracted, not pursued.” – Jim Rohn
22. “The safest way to double your money is to fold it over and put it in your pocket.” – Kin Hubbard
23. “Money will come when you are doing the right thing.” – Mike Phillips
24. “The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.” – H. L. Mencken
25. “You use your money to buy privacy because during most of your life you aren’t allowed to be normal.” – Johnny Depp
26. “It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.” – Kin Hubbard
27. “A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don’t need it.” – Bob Hope
28. “What’s a soup kitchen?” – Paris Hilton
29. “The easiest way for your children to learn about money is for you not to have any.” – Katharine Whitehorn
30. “The art is not in making money, but in keeping it.” – Proverb
31. “Cocaine is God’s way of saying you’re making too much money.” – Robin Williams
32. “Finance is the art of passing money from hand to hand until it finally disappears.” – Robert W. Sarnoff
33. “Too many people spend money they haven’t earned, to buy things they don’t want, to impress people they don’t like.” – Will Smith
34. “Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game.” – Donald Trump
35. “You don’t have to die in order to make a living.” – Lynn Johnston
36. “I used to have a drug problem, but now I have enough money.” – David Lee Roth
37. “The trick is to stop thinking of it as ‘your’ money.” – IRS auditor
38. “Money is like love; it kills slowly and painfully the one who withholds it, and enlivens the other who turns it on his fellow man.” – Kahlil Gibran
39. “So you think that money is the root of all evil. Have you ever asked what is the root of all money?” – Ayn Rand
40. “Dogs have no money. Isn’t that amazing? They’re broke their entire lives. But they get through. You know why dogs have no money? .. No Pockets.” – Jerry Seinfeld
41. “Someday I want to be rich. Some people get so rich they lose all respect for humanity. That’s how rich I want to be.” – Rita Rudner
42. “The art of living easily as to money is to pitch your scale of living one degree below your means.” – Sir Henry Taylor
43. “Money is the best deodorant.” – Elizabeth Taylor
44. “Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver.” – Ayn Rand
45. “I was so poor growing up … if I wasn’t a boy …I’d have nothing to play with.” – Rodney Dangerfield
46. “A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.” – Jonathan Swift
47. “He who marries for love without money has good nights and sorry days.” – Anonymous
48. “Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.” – Oscar Wilde
49. “A nickel ain’t worth a dime anymore.” – Yogi Berra
50. “Make money your god and it will plague you like the devil.” – Henry Fielding
51. “When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.” – Oscar Wilde
52. “Money never made a man happy yet, nor will it. The more a man has, the more he wants. Instead of filling a vacuum, it makes one.” – Benjamin Franklin
53. “Money frees you from doing things you dislike. Since I dislike doing nearly everything, money is handy.” – Groucho Marx
54. “The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money.” – Thomas Jefferson
55. “Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I’m not there, I go to work.” – Robert Orben
56. “Money often costs too much.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
57. “Money will buy you a fine dog, but only love can make it wag its tail” – Richard Friedman
58. “Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their time.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
59. “If you think nobody cares if you’re alive, try missing a couple of car payments.” – Earl Wilson
60. “Don’t tell me where your priorities are. Show me where you spend your money and I’ll tell you what they are.” – James W. Frick
61. “Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.” – Jim Rohn
62. “If you pay peanuts, you get monkeys.” – James Goldsmith
63. “Money is the barometer of a society’s virtue.” – Ayn Rand
64. “It’s good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it’s good, too, to check up once in a while and make sure that you haven’t lost the things that money can’t buy.” – George Lorimer
