I’m a long-time user of Yves Rocher products. My mother indoctrinated me when I was barely past my teens (she loves mail order). Since then, Yves Rocher has become something of a big business, branching out onto the World Wide of Webs and releasing a host of new products, all bearing the guarantee of no [...]

Though she grew up through the great depression, my grandmother always made sure she and her children had quality footwear. My own mother is the same way. They often say “You only have two feet and you use them all day long. Cheap shoes are not worth the price you pay in foot health and [...]

Last year, GreenDaddy’s parents considered retiring early and becoming entrepreneurs: they wanted to manufacture an invention – they hadn’t decided on it yet – in their native India, and then sell in the states. Around this time GreenDaddy and I discovered that there was no such thing as a sippy cup made out of [...]

I am a sucker for a free sample of anything. So when Dove plastered ads all over every web site I visit for the past month for their new Cream Oil Body Wash, I went to their site and schmucked about enough that I ended up signing up to receive a free sample. [...]

There are many things I loved about Target’s boxed wine before I ever tasted them: a) It’s wine. b) It’s sold at Target. Those are two big pluses already. Beyond that, I like the concept of boxed wine.
My husband and I are wine snobs, actually. Most everything on our wine [...]

It’s easier said than done. At least it is when you’re pregnant. I spent no less than 5 of my 10 pregnant months hiking my pants up and twisting my skirts back to centre. Now that I’ve had a baby, I have three choices. Clothes that are too small, clothes that are too big or [...]

When we decided to drop our cable company due to their ever escalating rates and terrible customer service, I was so excited to be moving to fiber optic service (FIOS) via our phone company, Verizon. In fact, after hearing their pitch we decided to go fiber with our phone, internet service as well as our [...]

If you’re driving alone from Ely to Elko @ 75mph @ 12am and your tire pops and you can’t change it and you don’t want to call AAA because Triple A=Triple F for the environment, THEN what? You call up the fabulous new auto club you joined after canceling AAA, whose policies that made [...]

We recently reviewed another Burt’s Bees product on Props and Pans and it was quite favorable but this time around, I have to give a big thumbs down to the Burt’s Bees Peach & Willowbark Deep Pore Scrub. I tried to like it. I wanted to like it… But alas, I just couldn’t.
For starters, [...]

Our son received his first pair of real winter boots from his paternal Grandma in early December. I had never seen a pair of boots like this before. They were Stonz, made by Canadian mom-trepreneurs Tracey Von Dehn and Lisa Will.When we opened the package, I was immediately struck by:
(a) How totally freaking adorable they [...]