Ready to Run: Spring Break Ideas!

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Apr 122012
 

April is usually the month that most schools go on spring break.  I think the college I attended  might have been one of the few exceptions; I recall our spring break falling just before my birthday, which was in March.  Considering the college was located in Florida, I guess I can’t complain too much, as most of my friends attending colleges in other states seemed to think I was on spring break year-round.

Because it’s that time of year (seriously, where has the year gone already?), Matter of Cents and I have chosen Spring Break Ideas as our theme for this week’s Pin Me! Thursday.  I’m going to share spring break travel ideas, projects and crafts to complete while on spring break, and a few other spring break-related items.  Going through and finding pins to share with you has definitely put me in the mood for a towel on the beach (though I’ll probably have to settle for a lounge chair on our patio).

Everything about this says “Spring Break” to me.  It makes me want to throw on some flip flops and a fedora, grab a friend, a mixed tape and some lemonade, and head off on a road trip.

Spring Break

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If I Had a Million Dollars…. Pin Me! Thursday

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Apr 052012
 

A record lottery was drawn last week, so I’m sure there are a lot of people that were pondering “What would I do with the money if I won?”.  It’s also a little ironic because back in January Matter of Cents and I had scheduled this week’s Pin Me! Thursday theme to be “If I Had a Million Dollars….”.  Because those “if I…” conversations were already fresh in my mind, it wasn’t hard to put together my list this week.

First up would be to build our dream home, maybe something like this one (can you just imagine sitting on a swing or in rocking chairs on this deck, drinking hot chocolate, while the kids run around outside catching lightning bugs?)

Of course, the dream home would have to have a big, open kitchen.  Maybe something like this.

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10 Holiday Weight Loss Tips From Nutrisystem #NSNation

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Nov 242011
 

I haven’t had a chance to share yet but I’m excited to announce that I am going to be participating in the Nutrisystem Nation Blogger program!  For the next 16 weeks I’ll be following the Nutrisystem Women’s Select Program – and sharing my results with you.  My first 4 weeks of food have arrived, but I’m not officially starting until Monday.

Eating during the holidays can be a challenge, but Nutrisystem has created 10 great tips for surviving the holidays.  You can see them at the bottom of this post.

I’ll kick off my official posting on Monday, and then I’ll be posting an update once a week after that.  If you have any questions about the program, how to get started, the food – whatever! – please leave me a comment and I’d be happy to answer. Continue reading »

Pinterest – The Addiction You Didn’t Yet Know You Have

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Sep 292011
 

A few days ago I commented in the Shopping for Savings BlogFrog community that I was planning to share some information about Pinterest.  Most of those who responded either didn’t know what Pinterest was or didn’t really understand the point.  I’ve heard more than one person on Facebook in the past few weeks say “I just don’t ‘get’ it”.  Being confused by it is completely understandable; that’s exactly how I felt when I heard about it a few weeks ago.

Now, however, I’m in love.  And maybe just a smidge addicted.

Do you remember in “the old days” when you saw something in a magazine and thought to yourself, “Hey, I’d like to buy/try/make/bake that”?  You’d tear whatever it was out and stick it on the fridge or a cork board, tuck it into a binder or plastic bin – basically you’d tuck it away for “someday”.  (And, if you are anything like me, you’d promptly forget about half of them.)

Well, think of Pinterest as big ‘ole virtual collection of cork boards for the internet.  You get to put up as many boards as you’d like and you can look at the boards that belong to everyone else also.

So how does that actually work?

Let’s say you really love Christmas decorations.  So you create a board where you can “pin” all the cute decorating ideas you run across on blogs, websites, Etsy, etc.  The image will then show up on your pinboard and when you’re ready to go back and order/make/consider the item again, you can just click your image and it will take you directly back to the page you found it on.

You can also follow other folks who are on Pinterest; if you find a person that has similar tastes to you and you follow them, every time they pin something new it will show up in the “feed” on your home page, giving you the option to pin it yourself if you like it.  (Don’t worry about having too much “stuff” in your feed; you can pick and choose which pinboards to follow for each person so that you’re only receiving relevant content.)

If you’re planning a wedding, shower, birthday or other party there are thousands of pins to jump-start your planning.  Like DIY and crafts?  You’ll be in Heaven with all the new ideas.  Stuck for what to make for dinner?  Search for a recipe and you’ll have endless possibilities.

(By the way if you have an Etsy shop joining Pinterest is a great way to self-promote.)

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