Be Your Own Boss! My Experience With Avon

Be Your Own Boss! My Experience With Avon

We have received a lot of positive feedback from our recent article titled "Do you need a job? Consider hiring yourself!" In fact, I would like to share some of my own personal experiences with self employment. Times are tough, and we could all use a little more income. I decided to look int

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Product Review: One Click Butter Cutter

Product Review: One Click Butter Cutter

If you are like me, you hate buying butter, it's hard to deal with , it's hard to cut, hard to spread, you need to keep it in the fridge or it goes rancid. I never buy it. If you have problems with your hand weakness, butter is definitely a no go, your have to have a real good grip on that knife

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Product Review: One Click Butter Cutter

Product Review: One Click Butter Cutter

If you are like me, you hate buying butter, it's hard to deal with , it's hard to cut, hard to spread, you need to keep it in the fridge or it goes rancid. I never buy it. If you have problems with your hand weakness, butter is definitely a no go, your have to have a real good grip on that knife

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Summer Product Review: Reef Flip Flops

Summer Product Review: Reef Flip Flops

I discovered Reef flip-flops about 10 years ago and I absolutely love them. As soon as we have the first warm day of spring I’m wearing mine outside and they are my number one footwear for the whole summer. I wear them everywhere – I have shopped, partied, gardened, even hiked in them. I also

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Awareness Ribbon and Bracelet Colors and Meanings

Awareness Ribbon and Bracelet Colors and Meanings

I always see people wearing ribbons or bracelets to support different organizations/ disease awareness, and I wonder what color is for what? It can be confusing. Some colors and awareness ribbons have multiple meanings. We did the best we could to compile a list of colors and meanings from multiple

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HELP! I’ve Been Working Out Like Crazy, Eating Right and STILL Can’t Lose Weight

A Do-Now, 4-Step Guide to Kick Starting Summer Weight Loss by Wendy Chant, Author of Conquer the Fat-Loss Code Few things in this life are as frustrating as working hard to look better, firm up or slim down and, after a few weeks -- or a few months -- of eating right and exercising STILL having noth

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Book Review: Flying for Peanuts The ABCs of Flying Southwest Airlines by Marty Thompson

Have you ever flown on Southwest before? If you have, you will certainly be able to relate to the situations Marty Thompson points out in his humorous look at the airlines. It has always reminded me of a cattle car. I feel like I should “moo” when I’m getting on. There is never enough space

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Ding dong, Avon Calling…

As the original direct sales company, Avon has a reputation for door-to-door sales. The iconic image of the Avon Lady ringing doorbells has been part of the American experience for generations. Some Avon representatives still canvas the neighborhood on foot, but many sell in their workplace, thro

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Book Review: Spirit Courage and Resolve, A Special Olympics Athlete’s Road to Gold by Tom Lambke

In 1981, Tom and Karen Lambke found out their newborn son has Down Syndrome. They didn’t let it bother them, they just realized that it meant being a parent would take a little more work. They used the resources available: support groups, associations for disabled children, and made friends wit

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B as in Beauty by Albert Ferraras: Book review and Contest!

Now in her late 20's "B." has tried everything she can think of to lose weight, from working out to hypnotism to every fad diet that has come around. She doesn't eat too much, goes to a gym regularly and doesn't eat carbs after seven p.m. It doesn't matter; she is still "fat." She just may come r

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