Pocket Change

Travel brings with it new experience and adventures, but buying hair blow dryers shouldn’t be one of them! Negotiating has become foreign to us in the West, where our checkout systems are fully automated and barcodes automatically detect the price, style, and item number. In most places around the world, goods are traded on a more intimate scale at the local market.

Move over, Coors – Anheuser-Busch has made plans to replace Coors as the official beer sponsor of the National Football League.

The number 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 includes 27 zeroes and 9 commas. In shorthand, you can write this number in 10^27 but what to actual call it is another matter. According to Austin Sendek, a physics student at the University of California, Davis this number should be called “hella.” In February he started a Facebook petition to make “hella” the official prefix for 10^27. His petition is picking up steam with almost 30,000 students and scientists from around the world supporting his idea. For those who don’t know, “hella” is a Northern California…

If you don’t know, now you know. Every single member of New Directions (yes that includes Santana, Brittany, Mike, and Matt) is coming to a city near you. Well, sorta. The Glee kids of McKinley High are embarking on a four city live tour this Spring. So if you’re a die-hard gleek living near Phoenix, New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago you’ll get your chance to see them sing live. They will be performing all your show favorites like “Don’t Stop Believin’,” “Somebody to Love,” “Don’t Rain on My Parade,”…

If organizing a DIY Birthday Party feels you with dread and makes you break out in hives, fear not. There is light at the end of the tunnel! I have always been of the philosophy that the smaller your budget, the more creative you have to be. And this applies to Children’s Birthday Parties too. I believe that in this day and age of recessions and economic awareness, it is still possible to have a stylish and memorable party without breaking the bank and without being a total Domestic Goddess!…

Were you aware that on an average Americans consume approximately 22 pounds of candy each a year? I am sure each one of us has some wonderful memories linked with the candies that we loved as a kid. If your friend, cousin, niece, nephew, neighbor or anyone else has had a little baby, present them with the baby buggy box candy basket. This basket contains over fifty pieces of nostalgic candy and it is sure to send them down the memory lane, as they begin taking out the candies one-by-one….

I recently realized that everyone loves to feel special. And giving personalized cards is a super way to show that you care enough about a person to make an extra effort. That was when I bought myself Avery Greeting Card Stock and started designing cards for different occasions. The incident that triggered this realization was a visit to my childhood friend’s home. We were meeting after nearly 15 years! While we talking about the days gone by, she suddenly got up and said, “Wait here. I have something to show…