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[IN]PLACE System

I like trying to find ways to be more organized and efficient.  But I can also be easily sucked into a new system and a new set of products.  I will keep the system going for awhile but then usually find that it just doesn’t work for me and it falls to the way side and sometimes I’ve wasted money.  After many cycles of that I cut myself off from buying any organizing products (i.e. desk... 

Cheesecake And Checks At Saks

If you haven’t been thinking and seeing pink everywhere you turn, you’re probably living under that proverbial rock. October is, of course, the month for breast cancer awareness. Saks Fifth Avenue is doing its part in a few ways, one of which is donating 2 percent of all this upcoming weekend’s sales to the Entertainment Industry Foundation’s Women’s Cancer Research Fund. To kick it all off,... 

Baby & child news roundup

7 things dirtier than money. Plenty of things are just as germy as the bills in our wallets and might also spread the swine flu virus. They include library books, bathroom door handles (cover the door handle with a paper towel before turning it), and public phone receivers. Also on the list? Grandkids. Parents tend to become immune to their children’s bugs through daily exposure, but not so for...