is this car cute enough?

Getting caught in rush hour traffic as often as I do, I’ve started doing all kinds of strange things in my minivan. Like reading, singing (it’s known as bawling to my captive audience), dancing a jig with my my fingers and shoulders, counting the number of cars of different colors and makes around me.

And guess what I’ve discovered! That almost everyone is driving the same few makes of cars. I mean, it’s so standard. Very rarely does a car stand out in the sea of cars.

And then I’m sitting there thinking, man, when my kids are grown and I no longer need the 7-seater capacity of my minivan, I’m going to buy me a cute little car, something that no one else has, a red Corvette, yes!

Why, I’d be the coolest, hippest mom on the block! Heh! I can just see me now, black hair blowing in the wind. And I already know exactly where I can find all the Corvette accessories I’ll ever need to pretty up my set of wheels.

CorvetteGuys.com is where you’ll find everything Corvette from tires to lights to engine parts though I’m pretty sure when they named the site, they didn’t mean it just for the guys to visit .

Even though I don’t own a Corvette… yet, I still like to go look around the site at all the interesting stuff they’ve got there. I’m told if you want something badly enough and you look at it and keep looking at long enough, you will eventually own it. Think I’ll get a poster of a Corvette and hang it on my home office wall .

the benefits of green tea

Every time I walk past this particular Japanese green tea kiosk at the mall, the kimono-clad promoter would unfailingly offer me a tiny cup of green tea to try.

I always oblige but so far I haven’t bought anything from her. It seems she always catches me at a time when I still have many boxes of tea stocked up at home. I love to buy in bulk, remember? So it takes me forever sometimes to finish one box of tea if my kids don’t help me drink it.

Green tea is actually very good for you. It not only tastes good, it contains anti-oxidants that help to fight many kinds of illnesses from the common flu to fibromyalgia. It helps with digestion and to rid your body of toxins.
But as with everything else that is supposedly good for you, green tea is very cooling and may not go down so well with older folks.

my grandmother’s recycled bag

You know I was just talking about those reusable bags that the malls are giving away as redemption gifts.

Well, it looks like some smart cookie is recycling old gunny sacks, that are typically used for wholesale items like rice and grains, into these so-called ‘bucket’ bags.

This is not a new idea though. I remember seeing my grandmother using this when she would go to the market.

Let me tell you, these are some of the strongest and hardiest bags you’ll ever find.

The ones my grandmother used to use were made of jute (I don’t know about these ones here) and you can just keep heaping stuff in and they’ll never break :shock: !

Wholesalers would discard these sacks after they were done repackaging the contents. I mean, you could literally pick one up from the heap and sew it into one of these pretty easily.

The next time I come across a pile of these discarded sacks and make my own trendy, reusable bag that will be the envy of all :lol: .

They’re selling these at $24.95 at ReusableBags.com. Of course, these are much more colorful than the ones my grandmother had.

twist hide box

I must’ve walked past a Red Envelope store about a thousand times but I’ve never once thought to step in.

Well, mainly it’s because I somehow always thought they sell paper and wrappings until I came across their website today and found this…

It’s a twist hide box for storing little trinkets, mementos and what have you. I think if I had one of these, I wouldn’t be able to stop twisting it open and shut.

Wouldn’t this make the perfect present for one of my girls? I really must go check out the store next time I walk past it :grin: .

do you like trying new products?

I went into Guardian, our local drugstore, yesterday and there was this promoter trying to talk me into buying a new skincare product from Japan called Skinz.

No offense, but the letter ‘z’ sounds awfully gimmicky to me. It’s something I would see being done with blog titles and text messages, but on a skincare product?

Just as I suspected, this product is very new and has been around for only one or two months. I’m not sure but that’s what she told me. Have you heard of it?

See, that’s the other thing. I’m not especially eager to be a guinea pig, least of all for skincare products. I prefer to see it work on others, preferably lots of others, before I even think about trying it.

What about you? Are you someone who’s game to try new products especially since they’re always so attractively priced?

what do you do with extra freebies?

Many companies have come to realize that people love freebies. I’ll be the first to admit I love freebies too, don’t you? I’ve got whole collections of imprinted promotional products such as caps, t-shirts, pens, mousepads, bags, towels…

But while these are very useful items, they can take up lots of space. So what do you typically do with them?

I sort out the ones I want and leave the rest in donation boxes for someone else to use. Orphanages and homes would love to have these items. They don’t mind the branding (which to us can be embarrassing to be walking advertisements).