What’s the Mission?
One of my colleagues handed out prizes at school recently, saying, “…and if it breaks before you go home today, well, it’s a dollar store prize.” And that’s a lot of what you find at the dollar store (Dollar Tree in our case) — cheap plastic toys that don’t last long. So why do we [...]
According to AdvertisingAge, sales of disposable diapers were down 9% for the 52 weeks ending August 7, 2011. Meanwhile, the number of babies age two and under fell by only 3%, and sales of diaper rash creams increased by 2.8%. AdvertisingAge reasons that this means that parents are letting babies sit in dirty diapers longer [...]
The New York Times editorial page admitted on Monday that The Numbers Are Grim. Supposedly, we’re in recovery from a recession now, but unemployment is still high (indeed, unemployment is slightly up as of Friday, June 3), and the Times blames slow growth in consumer spending. More troubling in the latest figures, consumer spending — [...]
I took a couple of Earth Day-related polls for Swagbucks* recently. Here’s the first one: I picked the last answer. I don’t do anything for Earth Day. I try to make overall lifestyle changes instead. Hopefully some of the other people who picked that answer are doing the same! Lifestyle changes, even smaller ones, have [...]
I’ve chronicled my journey to becoming a full-time bicycle commuter here over the past few years. I’ve even gathered several of my posts into a Family Biking page, so that people who are looking for advice can find them. Today, I’ve got a post over on Utility Cycling about getting started with family bicycle commuting. [...]
Uncle Jack was old when we visited his farm, but he still kept cows. He milked the cows by hand twice a day, squatting on one of those funny little stools, and we were allowed to watch. I tried some of the raw milk, but I was a city kid, raised on supermarket milk. I [...]
You could call me a mommy blogger. After all, I did put Mama in the name of my blog. But I don’t do some of the things many mommy bloggers do. For instance, I generally don’t do product promotions and giveaways on this blog. I’ve considered it, but most of the time, the promotions offered [...]
I’ve been hearing chatter about 10/10/10 for months now. People on the internet often take note of interesting dates like, well, 8/8/8, 9/9/9, 10/10/10. And 07/08/09, 08/09/10, etc. It’s cute, but not terribly important. But more and more people kept mentioning 10/10/10, and well ahead of time (usually you don’t hear about it until a [...]
