You may not know it, but today, June 30th, 2008, is Please Take My Children to Work Day. While it’s a bit late in the day to pawn your children off on your husband or someone else, I thought you would enjoy learning about this holiday. My friend Jen Singer, founder of MommaSaid, created the [...]
For the longest time people have aligned the saying “sex sells” with advertising. That is, advertisers believe that if they put something remotely sexy in their ads, their target audience would be more likely to pick up on the message and, more importantly, pick up the product. Some examples include: * Brooke Shields infamous Calvin [...]
My mother in law has this annual obsession of shopping for the holidays soon after we’ve just put away our winter clothes. Usually by August she’s done with her Christmas shopping, and come back to school, well, she’s working on her Christmas cards. Naturally, this drives all of us in the family a little nuts, [...]
Ever wonder what to do with those broken crayons you’ve got hanging around the house? Maybe you just cleaned out your kids’ school bag and found a bunch of orphaned crayons. Well, check out this link on “A Year of CrockPotting,” one of my new favorite blogs. While this blog usually focuses on cooking in [...]
Thursday is trash day. Despite the cliche, taking out the trash is neither my husband nor my children’s job–it’s mine. Since I’m going out of town before trash day, I’m doing my usually night-before-trash-day run around the house, whereby I empty all of the trash cans and replace the bags with clean, empty ones. In [...]
I know that from time to time, my family and I enjoy watching the FOX game show “Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader?” However, I’m convinced that the show’s writers find the most esoteric information in small sidebars in elementary-level textbooks, and that’s what they use for their questions. I mean, even my 5th [...]
A few years ago Morgan Spurlock’s documentary “Super Size Me” offered an unappetizing view of America’s oversized appetite for fast food–and the dirty underbelly of what happens when one person lives on fast food alone. I couldn’t help but think of “Super Size Me” on opposite day (as SpongeBob loves to celebrate; click here for [...]
Today I happened to clean out under my bathroom sink, the place where I store all of our medicine. I’d decided that, with school out, it was high time to freshen up everything that was expired–from notebooks my kids no longer need to the medicine with an expiration date from two or three years ago. [...]
Read how finding and fixing any water leaks in your home can save money, save water and help you live a greener life. Green Boot Camp: Week 22–Fix Any Water Leaks
A friend of mine, a New Yorker, used to tell me how he was too busy to recycle. In his old apartment building, there was a garbage compactor chute on every floor, and if he dumped canned goods, newspapers or plastic bags down there, no one was the wiser. Then he moved on up to [...]
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