Making Goody Bags Good

Making Goody Bags Good

Goody bags are part and parcel of every birthday party today. The contents of these goody bags are however, anything but good. How can you fix that?

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Adopt a school

Adopt a school

Schools have been the worst hit with all the economic downturn. Budget challenged, they are required to cut programs, increase class sizes with reduced staff. As parents, citizens we can help not just monetarily but otherwise.

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It is cold and your water heater decides to die, now what?

It is cold and your water heater decides to die, now what?

It was middle of winter and our water heater decided to call it a day. We were left to scamper to get a new one. Here are some things we learnt.

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20 minutes could save you $40 per month or more

20 minutes could save you $40 per month or more

Telecom expenses have become a staple of our living. It is easy to loose track and keep paying more. With alternate options and hyper competition amongst providers, there are values to be had, if you pay attention that is.

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Get Savvy with the Plum deals out there

Get Savvy with the Plum deals out there

Group buying, time bound buying, coupons are all the rage these days. Retailers are doing everything possible to get your attention and keep the engine going. Skeptic I was, to begin with. But now I see the value of these new models of buying.

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Career

Protect your dreams

With all the challenges we face in life just living life by itself can become a struggle. In the face of such challenge, persisting with your dreams is not within everybody capability. So this video reinforces the will to continue dreaming and persisting with the dreams. Continue Reading

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Be Good

I am not that green after all

If you have known me or have read my earlier posts on how we have made a lot of efforts around our home, office and life in general you know where I stand on being green and sustainable. Every activity that we do at home involves factoring in the sustainability aspects. So much so that [...] Continue Reading

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Parenting

Ye Have Not Because Ye Ask Not!

Traveling with children is always stressful. Especially if it involves air travel. With road, you have the latitude to be a little flexible with your time and control the velocity. With air travel, you are pretty much shackled in terms of what can be done. A typical routine would involve Get ready 4 hours ahead [...] Continue Reading

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Be Good

Facebook Conundrum that I face. Do you?

Facebook has consumed (I mean spare time-wise) the lifes of 600MM+ people around world, yours truly no exception. There is no update too small to not make it to Facebook. Then from thereon the journey of that trivial update takes a life of its own. Many Likes and Shares later, the journey of that update, [...] Continue Reading

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Home Ownership

It is cold and your water heater decides to die, now what?

A month ago we got hit with a double whammy (if you count the battery in the van it is a triple whammy). In space of a week, our furnace and water heater jointly decided that this world is not interesting anymore and hence call it a day. All the fun behind owning a home [...] Continue Reading

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Be Good

My Little hero

Have you come across someone who amazed you with a selfless action that took your breath away ? I met one such person yesterday and needless to say, I was touched by her actions. She is a 3 year old girl named Elizabeth, who I meet every morning, when I drop my son off at [...] Continue Reading

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Parenting

Making Goody Bags Good

Have you been to a Birthday party recently ? Having kids or not, birthday party invitations have become a regular part of our life now.  With our busy schedules, hosting birthday parties at locations like Chuck-e-Cheese, Pump-it-Up, Party Place has become a easy alternative. Besides deciding on the menu, space arrangement, you can even pick [...] Continue Reading

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Personal Finance

Get Savvy with the Plum deals out there

While I consider myself a savvy shopper, I do not fall into the coupon obsession crowd. As I mentioned in my earlier post on frugality, my strategies are different – buy un-seasonally, plan purchases ahead of time. So to begin with, I was a skeptic on the whole group buying phenomenon – GroupOn, SavvySource and Plum [...] Continue Reading

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Parenting

Learn effective moderator skills @ home

We choose our friends based on our likes, hence we get along. We don’t get to choose our families,  hence we ought to learn to get along. Can you guess whose quote this is? If you started thinking about some philosopher then you have definitely taken the wrong exit. It is a quote from the [...] Continue Reading

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Personal Finance

20 minutes could save you $40 per month or more

No No!  Hold on! This is not a GIECO Ad that I am replaying. Read on and see how I managed to save $40 bucks a month by just doing my routine checks into bills and visiting the service provider’s web site. All it took was a 20 minutes on the phone with a service [...] Continue Reading

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