Month: March 2013

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Printed Envolopes Discovery

It hurts the whole family to see my mother and stepfather’s business going under worse and worse with each coming month. They have an appointment with a lawyer to discuss their options and bankruptcy is one of the options that is leaving a bad taste in everyone’s mouth. My mother worked her fingers to the bone for their mail and packaging store, before their health started declining and of course the economy being still in such turmoil has made it all too much for her to handle much more of.

I have been going down to their store for the past couple of months at least once a week to help out in any numerous ways that are needed. I’m real good at getting other peoples stuff sorted and organized, so I have been doing as much as that as I can. I have been discovering things that I had no idea about and stuff that they had completely forgotten about throughout the years. I found two boxes of their envelope prints that they got such a good deal online a few years about and then forgot all about, so now that I have uncovered them they are thinking of ways to put them to good use as soon as possible.

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Womens Ski Jackets

A few months ago, a girlfriend of mine I work with was thinking about both of us going to Maine for a week for the past year or so, and stay at a ski resort and learn how to ski and or snowboard together. I thought it was a great idea, we were both in need of a vacation after a long hard year. We did come across a problem while planning our vacation though. Both of us needed a warm, thick, but stylish ski jackets, but neither of us knew where we could find any Womens Ski Jackets at a good price. So both of us took a night off after work from our busy lives, to sit down at the computer and search the net to see if we could come across any deals or good buys.

It didn’t take long at all for us to find the perfect site that we both really liked. Neither of us could decide which jacket to pick, they were all such great quality for such an awesome price.  We ended up randomly picking one they suited both of our personalities. It was immediately shipped to our homes and when I opened my package I was amazed at how nice it really was. We were both very satisfied with the results of our search. Our new jackets kept us warm and cozy couldn’t be any happier with our choice of ski jackets for us awesome trip to Maine and long after.

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Invitation Designing and Printing

A favorite cousin of mine is going to college to become a graphic designer and has been wanting experience as to how to print out. She came over to my house the other night during our family and friend get together and she was talking to us about her knowledge she soaked up from college, when all of a sudden everyone paused and turned to the center of the back deck and heard my brother finally propose to his now fiance. Shortly after everyone congratulating them on their new engagement, my brother had asked our cousin if she could help someone to customize their wedding invitations since shes attending school for just that. Needless to say she was up for the task and so excited to start looking for a printing business that she could maybe have a helping hand in creating.

She called me over to help her look online for any great deals, since two pairs of eyes are better then one. Being that she lives only a few houses down the road I walked over and sat down at her desk with her beside me and we started our search. It didn’t take long at all to find great wholesale printers to where she could do it herself but she ended up just designing their wedding invitations. My brother and soon to be sister in law are so please with the invitation design she had come up with.

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You Go Girl!

My niece has always been very prepared for any physical threat that comes her way. I honestly can’t blame her tho, she used to assist in self defense classes with children and had picked up the habit of carrying a can of mase in her purse along the way, after hearing some terrifying stories of brutal beatings due to the lack of defense skills and mechanisms. Lately she’s been talking about possibly of purchasing a hand gun or even a stun gun for extra protection due to some peoples tolerance to mas.

So I thought we would search around on the net and try to find some affordable stun guns so that no matter what situation, nobody gets shot by a gun and possibly result in death. She thought it was a great idea, so we pursued the search. We came across a few standard stun guns that didn’t strike her attention. We kept on with the search, until she stopped me on a site that offered great quality and affordable safety girl stun guns. She pointed out one in particular that she really wanted so we ordered it and she is now constantly shooting the practice target poster board that came with her stun gun. She tells me she is feeling more confident of her and her loved ones safety now that she has her own stun gun. I’m down with that, you go girl!

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So Many Types Of Jeans To Pick From

Years ago I was a big fan of Levi jeans. I wouldn’t even consider buying a different brand of jeans. I liked the way that Levis fit me. I liked the different styles of boot cut and straight legs, the midrise and low-rise, and my favorite jean of all time was the Levi 501 button fly jeans. I haven’t seen the Levis 501 jeans in years. They have a line of jeans now that they call 501s, but they have a zipper fly with extra buttons just for the look. The original 501 used the buttons to actually close your fly – not just look pretty or nostalgic.

It always amazes me how many brands and styles of jeans that are being manufactured every day to try and find their way into the hearts and the pocket books of  today’s jean wearers. Something that used to be so easy to run in and grab right off of the shelve can now take hours looking, comparing and trying on all the various jeans that are available these days.

I have mainly been wearing men’s jeans for years now. They are so much more comfortable all the way around than the ones made for the female gender. The pockets are deeper, you can get the right length regardless of your waist size and they just feel so much better to wear, not as restraining I guess is the right way to explain it. So it can really take a long time to find the perfect jeans considering I have the ladies section and the men’s section to check out.

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Custom Built Homes In Florida

Found an interesting article about mobile manufactured homes. Some people call them trailers. So I think you would probably want to call this futuristic manufactured home a “Jetson’s Trailer.” The home is manufactured and sells for much less than a stick built home. It has a few options, but the main design is for the home to be easily assembled on a prepared level home site and provides the basic functional rooms that a modern family or retired couple might need with a lot of modern touches and energy efficiency built-in.

If I were to have my dream house I would turn to a Fl Home Builder since there isn’t any other place that I would want to live out my life at. There are many ideas that I have been entertaining about the way I would want my dream house to be set up and with what appliances that it makes my head spin just thinking about them all.  I swear I don’t see how people are able to make the thousands of decisions that come along with the building of their custom-house.

I just know that I want a fireplace, the washer and dryer need to be on the main floor. The kitchen must be easily accessible to the bringing in of the inevitable groceries and other purchases. And my refrigerator needs to have a see-through door and have an ice maker. Those are just a couple of ideas that I’ve been thinking about, not that I ever plan on having enough money to build my own custom home, but stranger things have been known to happen, right?