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Not Your Mama’s Fig Newtons

Filed Under: Beauty and/or Health, Food, Shopping by Paige — Leave a comment
April 1, 2012

Picked up a bag of those new cookies that I’ve been wanting to try. I got a coupon from the Sunday newspaper to save 50 cents and the grocery store had them on sale, so I got the bag at essentially half price. I don’t mind trying something when it’s free or deeply discounted. If it turns out that I don’t like them, I bet there will be someone in the house who gives them a try and eats them other than me. And if they are really good, they will disappear very fast.

The cookies are called “Newton’s Fruit Thins.” I noticed they have a honey and fig flavor, a cranberry orange flavor and a blueberry flavor. I decided to try the fig and honey – after all, that is what makes fig newton’s famous.

I was expecting a soft cakey cookie, like the fig newtons, but these are more like graham crackers. The bag says that the cookie part is whole grain, only 5 grams of fat per serving (three big cookies equal one serving) and no high fructose corn syrup is used.

I tasted one after I got home and I like it, but it is NOT your mama’s fig newton.

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New house

Filed Under: Computers and/or Internet, Friends and/or family, General Life, Home and Garden, Money and finances, Relationships, Shopping by Paige — Leave a comment
April 1, 2012

Thanks to Roman May

My daughter and her husband finally saved up enough money to buy a new house. They have been married for three years and had lived in an apartment the whole time. The day they had the closing and got the keys they had to get the electricity turned on in their names. They went online to ShopElectricityRatesTexas.com to find the best deal that they could find. My son-in-law’s father had told him that was a great place to get electricity. Then they went into the house and decided that they wanted to paint everything before they moved in. We all chipped in over a long weekend and knocked that job out pretty quickly. We also cleaned everything from top to bottom because my daughter is pretty much a germaphobe. Then over the next week, we all helped, when we could, get all the furniture moved in. The next part involved making the curtains. My mom is a great seamstress so she was a big help in getting the curtains made for every room. I think my daughter learned a lot about sewing from her. So now the house is mostly complete. I am really hoping now that they will start thinking about having a baby. I can’t wait for that to happen.

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Dryer balls

Filed Under: Beauty and/or Health, Friends and/or family, General Life, Home and Garden, News, Relationships, Shopping, Technology by Paige — Leave a comment
March 31, 2012

When I first heard about using dryer balls to reduce the drying time of clothes, and to eliminate the need for using fabric softener, I thought that I would like to give them a try. I found some for sale at the store where I work and bought about six packages of them. I thought that my sisters and parents would like to give them a try as well, and since I got them for a very good price (thanks to the employee discount!) that it would be an inexpensive way to let other folks know that I care.

The dryer balls do seem to work the way that they are supposed to work. However, I am a little bit disappointed in how quickly they break and fall apart! And since I bought them at the store I’ve read some articles about how some dryer balls are made of a product that people really should be avoiding. Since then I’ve bought some of the dryer balls over the Internet that are supposed to be made of a safe product, and hopefully last longer. The biggest problem that I have with them now, though, is that when I empty the dryer, the dryer balls are sometimes hiding inside the clothing that I am taking out and plays hard-to-get. Overall, though, I plan to keep using them, I think that they are a good investment.

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Bloom has changed back to Food Lion

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March 20, 2012

I found it very interesting that a few years ago the company that owns Food Lion took some of their stores and changed their name to Bloom. They supposedly improved the quality of the food and raised the prices. Now they have decided that tactic failed and they are turning them back to Food Lions. I don’t know how I feel about that. I can remember watching a television news show many years ago about problems that Food Lions were having with failed health inspections in regards to their meats. I sure hope that is something that will not be a problem in the future!

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I got tired of listening to her nagging

Filed Under: Entertainment and Fun, Friends and/or family, General Life, Relationships, Shopping, Technology by Paige — Leave a comment
March 20, 2012

Ever since I moved to this area my sister has been trying to convince me to switch from cable television to direct tv satellite television. She kept telling me that she loved her
directtv and that it cost a lot less money than cable television did. But I had done my research when I had moved in here and found that satellite television only allowed a few television sets to be hooked up for the monthly rate, but that the cable television allowed unlimited hook-ups for the monthly rate. So I kept telling her that since I had so many televisions it was more economical to do the cable television bundle.

Well, that was all before the cable television service had to digitize all of their stations and charge the customers for the receiver boxes. Suddenly keeping cable television was more expensive than switching to the satellite bundles offered at dx3. At first we thought that only a couple of the channels were converting and we lost those channels for a couple of months. I really didn’t care since I didn’t watch much television anyway. But then one day in the middle of a television program the screen was scrambled and it was scrambled on all of the stations, on all of the televisions. A phone call to the cable television office revealed that we were going to have to pay a lot of extra money than before just to keep the same service we had. I asked for a discount and they refused. Now it was making financial sense to switch to a satellite television service. So I switched. I can’t afford to have all of the televisions hooked up like I did before, but my monthly bill is not any larger. When I finally did switch I told my sister that I finally gave in to her nagging and I had better not hear a single complaint from her about reception problems!

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