Each week I’ll be giving you information on items you can get absolutely free from the grocery store!

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Every Friday morning…a little pick me up to get the day started right. Heres to the weekend!  We’re almost there!

Seriously, are guys so bad at shaving that they need a template to maintain a goatee?

It seems as though these guys do. Check this out!

Yet another reason women are staking claim as the smarter sex.  We’ve been shaving numerous body parts daily for centuries, and doing it with no template.  Men only have their faces to worry about…and they need help with that?

This little gem comes to us from the folks over at Wildspace.  I gotta tell you, he’d look really good mulching the flowerbed…if you know what I mean. :)  Oh, to be 20 years old again!

Today’s Eye Candy comes from Wendi Darlins blog.  I admit, I didn’t get too far past the image to read the posts, but I’ll get back over there soon.

Anyway, here he is.  Grab a tissue ladies…don’t drool on the keyboard!

I read an interesting blog post this morning about brand names vs. generics.  Now I have been known a time or two to purchase a generic version of a product to save a little cash in my pocket.  Alot of times, these decisions don’t matter, and the quality is near the same.

This poster was talking about Beer.  Generic Beer.  Can you imagine?  It got me thinking of which items I would put on my NEVER NO WAY NO HOW list of purchasing in generic form.

1. Paper Towels.  I’m a Bounty girl all the way.
2. Toilet Paper.  Charmin or nothing.  I’d rather go gather leaves from the backyard than use generics.  And my yard only grows pine trees…so I’d be stuck with pine cones.
3. Shampoo.  Sorry, can’t do it. My hair is one of the very few things I’m anal about.  Gotta have my expensive stuff (when it’s on sale of course).
4. Pickles.  Why are stores trying to sell pickles with their own name on them?  Don’t they know about Claussens and their obvious superiority?

That’s my short list.  Now for yours.  What do you HAVE to have in a brand name when you shop?

Free trial size sample of Nature’s Essential Ingredients Silk Almond Serum with Jojoba.

In this digital new world, more and more parents are connecting with their kids via untraditional methods…facebook, linkedin, myspace, etc.  Whatever happened to good old fashioned talking?

Since when is twitter a viable method of finding out what your kids are doing?

Granted, my children are still young, but I’d like to think that talking won’t be outdated by the time they are teenagers.

An interesting article on the topic is found here.  What are your thoughts?

Penne Pasta

This recipe comes from one of my favorite sites, Cheap Eats.

The author provides a great deal of information on choosing the correct ingredients and preparing the most cost effective recipes that your family will love.  Stop by her site and take a look around.

We all know it.  We just don’t want to admit it.  Once you have kids, you change.  There’s something that happens to you (perhaps physiologially) that just alters your chemistry.  You become the person you never thought you’d be.  You become someone you never thought you could be.  You become your mother.

How do you know when this happens?  Here’s a few signs to be on the lookout for.

1. Your feet stick to the kitchen floor, and you don’t care.
2. When the kids are fighting, you threaten to lock them in a room together and not let them out until someone’s bleeding.
3. You can’t find your cordless phone, so you ask a friend to call you, and you run around the house madly, following the sound until you locate the phone downstairs in the laundry basket.
4. You spend an entire week wearing sweats.
5. Your idea of a good day is making it through without a child leaking bodily fluids on you.
6. Popsicles become a food staple.
7. Your favorite television show is a cartoon.
8. Peanut butter and jelly is eaten at least in one meal a day.
9. You’re willing to kiss your child’s boo-boo, regardless of where it is.
10. Your kids make jokes about bodily functions, and you think it’s funny.
11. You’re so desperate for adult conversation that you spill your guts to the telemarketer that calls…and HE hangs up on YOU!
12. Spit is your number one cleaning agent.
13. You buy cereal with marshmallows in it.
14. The closest you get to gourmet cooking is making Rice Krispie treats.
15. You’re up each night until 10:00 P.M. vacuuming, dusting, wiping, washing, drying, loading, unloading, shopping, cooking, driving, flushing, ironing, sweeping, picking up, changing sheets, changing diapers, bathing, helping with homework, paying bills, budgeting, clipping coupons, folding clothes, putting to bed, dragging out of bed, brushing, chasing, buckling, feeding (them, not you), PLUS swinging, playing baseball, bike riding, pushing trucks, cuddling dolls, roller blading, basketball, football, catch, bubbles, sprinklers, slides, nature walks, coloring, crafts, jumping rope, PLUS raking, trimming, planting, edging, mowing, gardening, painting, and walking the dog. You get up at 5:30 AM and you have no time to eat, sleep, drink, or go to the bathroom, and yet…you still managed to gain 10 pounds.