All year long, I clip those little “Box Tops for Education” thingies, and the kids bring them in to school. I didn’t know it until this school year, but the Box Tops program also has something called “Marketplace,” where certain online stores donate a percentage of your purchase to the school.
When you sign up, […]

This stamp caught my eye not just because of the pretty, pretty colors (WHY do the post office clerks roll their eyes when I ask to see all the available stamps so I can choose the prettiest?) but because there was a sign up at my post office saying that they’d raised, like, fifty jillion […]

Oh, hey! You know how everyone in the whole world has been talking about a site where you play word games and it somehow sends rice to hungry people? And you know how people keep saying, “OMG it is actually FUN!”?
Well, I tried it for the first time this past weekend, and OMG […]

Considering how much I enjoy telling other people what to do, read, and watch, I can’t believe I never thought of this before: You can donate copies of your favorite books and DVDs to the library, thereby sneakily infecting other patrons with your preferences.
I thought of it when I was trying to make you […]