Made in America

Posted on 11th December 2011 in Friends and Family, Home and Garden, Internet, Life, Opinion, Shopping

I’m trying to buy Made in America products for Christmas presents this year. I am finding it to be a very difficult task. Many of the gifts that people want are electronic in nature, and most of those items are made overseas. When I Google “Made in USA” very few items actually show up that would be things that the people on my gift list would really like to have.

I’d like to shop local, but I don’t want to pick up every item on the shelf and turn it over to see where it was made. I figure that if I look online first for the product itself, then I can go to the local store to buy it. If you have any suggestions about where to find items that are Made in USA, please let me know, I’m interested!

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Free ice cream

Posted on 7th November 2011 in Food, Life, Opinion, Shopping

One of the things that I like about Wendy’s is that at the end of the year the restaurants offer the customers the chance to buy a little key tag for $1.00 that gives the customer the right to free junior frosties for the entire next calendar year. The proceeds go to charity. I go to Wendy’s often enough to actually get a lot of free frosties, so it is a good deal for me! Yay for free ice cream!

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They should tell you first

Posted on 1st November 2011 in Business and/or office, Food, Life, Opinion, Shopping

One of my pet peeves is when you go into a fast food restaurant and place an order and pay for the order and then when you get the food it is missing part of the order. When you find out that it is missing (if you are lucky you are still there) and bring it to their attention, they reply “oh, we’re all out of that!” Well, don’t you think you should tell me that before I walk or drive away and offer me a refund or an alternative? This has happened at least once in every fast food restaurant chain I’ve visited, so I can’t point my finger and yell at one particular chain. Just plain old bad customer service. I think that the next time it happens to me I’m going to go online and complain to the company directly.

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Not too bad

Posted on 27th October 2011 in Food, Friends and Family, Life, Shopping

Last night we were all feeling too lazy to cook, so we decided to cook up the DiGiorno’s frozen pizza we have had in the freezer for a couple of weeks. It was the rising crust three meat pizza. I had my doubts about whether or not I would like it, but I have to tell you that it was really very good. So good in fact that I’ve put it on the shopping list to buy more. And chances are pretty good that we’ll be eating that pizza a lot more in the future instead of going to the pizza restaurant that costs double the amount that the frozen pizza cost!

I’ve tried their thin crispy crust pizza and didn’t like it at all, so I’m really glad I like their rising crust pizza! It’s nice to know I can have a few of them in the freezer for future times we don’t feel like cooking anything complicated!

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Dancing boots

Posted on 7th October 2011 in Friends and Family, Life, Shopping

I’ve been thinking about taking up square dancing.  Before I do that, I need some nice looking boots.  A friend of mine told me to go to the Town & Country Leather Store.  He told me that “they make a real fancy pair that you polish up and your feet won’t get sore and you won’t make a fool out of yourself on the stage.”  He was just kidding of course.  Well I went there and tried on five or six pairs.  I was fussy what they looked like, but in the end I went back to the first pair that I picked out.

Jeannie wandered off down another aisle and all of a sudden she found something that she liked, so whammo – it was a double sale for this guy.  I didn’t mind – she looked hot in them.  But then again, she looks hot in anything!

The employees there were extremely nice.  They work with you and provided very friendly service.  They told me that if I wasn’t happy with those boots that I could bring them back within the first two weeks of purchase.

They even called me to ask how I liked them and I told them that I liked them just fine even though I hadn’t been out dancing yet.  I was looking for something that I could dance in for two or three hours and feel like I hadn’t danced at all, and I think that these will do it!

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