I hope to see you guys all at Noon ET on America’s Hometown Picnic!  I just wanted to let you know that there’s a giveaway going on too:   Enter to win over $550 worth of gift certificates, gas cards, and more to recreate your own #HometownPicnic here: https://bit.ly/2CDceLU! 🍉 Hope to see you …

With all my traveling taken off my schedule, I’ve been discovering the outdoors locally here in North Carolina. Tomorrow (or today, if you are one of the newsletter readers), I’ll be live streaming from a picnic from one of our great outdoors spots (properly socially distanced and within all outdoor …

During the Covid-19 crisis, I started hearing a lot of restaurants complaining about GrubHub because of its fees and practices. At first, I thought these claims were a little overblown because a service can’t run without earning money in some sort of way.  I figured these were restaurants that newly …

We have some interesting needs now in this situation.  My hair has gotten pretty long.  I was already overdue for a haircut, but since my hair was already long, it’s not a huge deal. I have family and friends whose hair has gotten to near-top knot state.  But with barbershops …

Ashley Barno started receiving text messages from a phone number she didn’t know commenting on many personal things about her–what flight she was on, how attractive she was, and the creepiest of all to me, a text describing her current outfit. The anonymous texter confessed he was an American Airlines …

Haymount is a district of Fayetteville, NC a bit up the road from the Downtown area.  It’s what I like to call “New Yorker” walking distance at just over a mile. It has some pretty unique stores, including one that is moving online. The first stop for me was Bertie’s …

I wanted to remind everyone of one of my favorite geeky tshirt spots–SnarkFish T-Shirts this holiday season. Their nifty t-shirts, prints, pins, cute tank tops, and vinyl decals, which embody dorkitude and gaming, are among my go-to items.  And they are a small business run by the dude who manages …

For non-current users of Kindle Unlimited, you can get three months of the service for $0.99 on Amazon through December 31st. I received an email inviting me to this offer and I used to be a Kindle Unlimited member, so it applies to lapsed subscribers too (not just brand new ones). …

You can get small household appliances for almost free or even free at Kohls, depending on how you combine cashback, rebates, and a points-earning credit card. Deals We Like has all the details.  Check it out! She goes step-by-step through the process of getting the deal, talking about how to …

A record player I’ve been watching on Amazon has not only dropped in price by $20, but it also has a $20 off coupon, reducing this record player to less than HALF its original cost! I just wanted to pass that long in case anyone else is in the market …