08.03.07

Toxic Employees

Posted in Business at 9:28 pm by <ADMINNICENAME>

I enjoy reading Seth Godin’s blog because I reap great marketing ideas.  I particularly liked his blog about “Toxic Employees”. 

“Toxic employees are the ones that have difficulty with their co-workers, or worse, far worse, with your customers………………….”

Bathtub Hard Water Spots

Posted in Cleaning Tips, Family, Promotional Products at 9:10 pm by <ADMINNICENAME>

I was cleaning my bath tub last Saturday, and I could not get rid of the hard water spots.  Yeah, grant it, if I would clean my tub more often, I wouldn’t have this problem.  After being married for 27 years, I know that I am not going to turn over a new leaf and clean my bathroom every Saturday so I had to come up with another solution to get rid of hard water spots.

I bought ”Lime Away” at the grocery store.  I wasn’t too impressed.  Then, I tried  “Comet” even though I know it is a harsh cleaner and can leave abrasions, but the water spots didn’t even begin to budge.  I asked around to see what other people do to get rid of hard water stains.  An older lady in my neighborhood said vinegar works because of it’s acidic nature giving it the ability to soften hard water.   I sprayed the hard water spots with vinegar and let them stand a few hours, and then I reapplied more vinegar, and when I scrubbed the hard water stains,  to my surprise they came right off.  

I don’t care for the smell of vinegar, but I’ll put up with the strange smell to have a clean tub.  Since vinegar is cheap, I enjoy the savings that I can use to buy other things for my bathroom like:

Mineral Bath Salts

Relax Pack Gift Set

Chill Out Basket

Apothecary Bath and Body Gift Kit

08.02.07

Cheap Softwares

Posted in Business at 11:14 pm by <ADMINNICENAME>

I ordered Adobe Creative Suite 2 Premium from Cheap Softwares .  Although the  software was shown on their website boxed in Adobe packaging, I received only a disc.  I suspect that since the disc was not sent in Adobe packaging that it’s not authentic software. 

If you have had prior experience receiving imitation software from Cheap Softwares, I would appreciate it if you would share the incidence(s) with me and my readers.   Thank you.  Our mutual effort may help stop the movement of illegal replicated products.

08.01.07

My Neighbor’s Sad Dog Story

Posted in Family, Promotional Products at 10:28 pm by <ADMINNICENAME>

My neighbor accidentally ran over her family dog of sixteen years.  When she talks about her trauma as she jumped out of her van to rescue Sadie, her eyes well up with tears.  “How could I hurry so fast that I did this to my sweet Sadie?”  Her grief is overwhelming as she watches her nine children weep about the loss of their long time family dog. 

Their family decided to have a funeral for Sadie in hopes it would help them begin to heal. Sadie now lies buried in the corner of their backyard garden plot. 

Their family is apprehensive about getting another dog because there is no dog that can replace a beloved dog of sixteen years.  I am quite sure, given some time, they will reconsider getting a new dog to love and putting Sadie’s dog toys and accessories  to use again. 

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