Holy crap, shipping rates gone up much lately? If you do a lot of mailing (say you’ve been doing a lot of contests and giveaways recently, or say you have relatives out of state), your jaw is probably bruised from hitting the postal counter.
The flat-rate shipping option is almost always a good one. […]

If you have an Etsy shop, or a blog, or any business you want to advertise on the cheap, I recommend trying an ad on Facebook. As an experiment, I made an ad to advertise my baby names blog. It’s easy to do: if you have a Facebook account, you’ll see an […]

I don’t know how YOU like to do it, but I like to get a good early start on any panicking that needs to be done. I subscribe to a mailing list from the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, so that when a toy or a car seat is recalled, or a piece of […]

I’ve been interested in Moo’s Flickr mini-cards for a while, and a couple weeks ago I took the time to pick out 100 photos from my Flickr account and place an order.
The process of cropping each photo so that you’ll get the best part of the image on the card is kind of tedious, no […]

Hey, here’s something cool: the nice people at Angie’s List have offered me a discount that I can share with you guys. I’m not getting kickbacks on it or anything, so even if you don’t like me, feel free to stroke it, bore it, and cram it where the sun don’t shine use the discount […]