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5 Tips To Shop Smart For A New Van
About one month ago I began shopping for a new van. Our 2007 Dodge Black Caravan was fine and we were fairly happy with it, but the lease was up. We took someone’s lease over two years ago. I have always been a fan of leasing because I like trading my vehicle in every couple of years or so. Also we never ever go over the mileage allowed so we never have any extra costs. Anyways, the lease was up and as usual we were up against a tight deadline. So I started researching. Luckily, these days customer reviews are easy to find on the Internet. I tweeted and asked…
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Unveiling a New Logo
The Old This week, just before I head into the amazing conference season I was inspired to kick it up a notch. I started hunting for a new logo and some new image to capture the business of thriftymommedia. The amazing @gingermommy recommended Dirty Dog Sign Shop locally in London just on Dundas Street near First Streets and I think I am pretty happy with his interpretation of what I do here. What do you all think? The New Next week I will get these for magnets on my new van. The crappy old ones that I had done up with Vistaprint fell apart. Lifespan was under one year. They peeled…
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Good For You Girls Tween Skin Care
I won this amazing little starter kit a few weeks back, but wanted to share with my readers the details and the review. Good For You Girls won me over with their all natural line of products for girls. I like that a lot, so when my ten-year-old asked to try it I was more than thrilled to get her started on a healthy skin routine. What better products to start with than these? Good For You Girls is made with finest organics and natural botanicals. There are no parabens, sulfates and petrochemicals. Also no fragrance, oils or dyes. Good For You Girls starter kit contains a gel cleanser, purifying…
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Monday Mingle on a Tuesday Sept. 20, 2011
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Fun Tour For Drama Queens and Kings: Stratford Festival Warehouse Tour #travel
Stunning hats, caps, crowns and bonnets One of the highlights of our summer was a day trip to Stratford, Ontario. Just under one hour from London, Ontario and not too far from Detroit (two and a half hours about) by car, there is a good deal to see and do in the pretty town of Stratford. This theatre town is well known for its lovely scenery, its trademark swans and world class theatrical productions. Since my children both are very dramatic and my eldest acts with Original Kids Theatre Company we were eager to explore the city. This year we did not take in a production, but we did the…
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Friday Finds – Last Weekend of Western Fair
Friday this week has a lot of potential. If you haven’t been to the Western Fair yet, then time is running out. Get there this weekend or wait another full year.Also Doors Open London: Yeah! I am actually really excited about this event. It is the weekend of the year when several interesting buildings and hotspots throw their doors open. FOR FrEE! Not for nothing the lovely little Alzheimer`s London building on Windermere is one of the sites. It is fast becoming a great resource for us. I suggest if you have a loved one that is a senior it might be worth seeing what they offer. The future sometimes…
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Hands Off My Child’s Weight – For The Last Time
A lot of people followed my story of scales in schools. Last Friday I posted about my daughter, 10, in grade five and an insensitive assignment in which a scale was in her class and kids were weighed. My daughter went first. She was picked to go first and comments were made by others about her size and weight. She came home very upset. Anyways part of my weekend was then spent trying to fix that problem and get to the root of what happened. The issue was resolved yesterday morning when the teacher, whom I believe to be a very good teacher, finally connected with me and we agreed…
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Keep Your Hands Off My Kid’s Weight – Weighing In – Update
Weighing in on Weight at School has been one of the most talked about posts I’ve ever written. For those of you who don’t know or didn’t read it, my child came home last week very upset about having her weight taken at school. It made her self conscious, she said. It was a reflections activity that made me extremely angry and inflamed a lot of my readers. Tons of you tweeted me over the weekend and your comments and support have been amazing. Some of you recalled being chubby as children, having the very same weighing at school and how scarring it was. Others said even their grade one child…
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Monday Mingle – September 12th
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Weighing In on Weight At School
These are my kids at the start of the week. All happy to go back to school and confident and such. Aren’t they cute? By day four of week one, my little one, ironically a girl with special needs is still tickety boo and thrilled with school. And my overachiever grade five rockstar Original Kid, fluent in two languages and pretty damn great all around, well she’s asking to be homeschooled. Again. This, for the record, is how much of last year went. Bully girls and bullshit. Anxiety. Stomach aches. Anyways, so much was plugged in at the end of the year and so many great people offered reports and…