One thing I learned from my last review is to not write it immediately after the tasting process. Especially if you are tasting thoughtfully and thoroughly like I have done for you. If you do, you might leave out the actual name of the wine and the prices. So today I start with the [...]

My daughter had been begging for a Barbie and the 12 Dancing Princesses Princess Genevieve Barbie ever since seeing it in Target one day when we were supposedly shopping for a birthday present for another girl, so my son bought both the Barbie and the associated movie for her for Christmas.
The Princess Genevieve Barbie is [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

I don’t have a whole lot to say about Ban Invisible Solid anti-perspirant other than it blows. I don’t even perspire that much under my arms (don’t be jealous… I more than make up for it with boob sweat) and it still doesn’t work well.
To be honest, I just picked it because they were out [...]

I have very odd feet. They’re not only big, but very wide as well. This makes it very hard to find shoes for special occasions, as most dress shoes do not come in my size, 10.5 EE. When I have a fancy dress type occasion I usually start searching for acceptable shoes weeks in advance, [...]

Today I had contact with the people who make my dryer. In case you are wondering, it is an ASKO.
This was what could only be described as a sucky kind of contact. It did not leave me feeling all warm and fuzzy. It did not leave me feeling like ASKO was concerned about me or [...]

A few weeks ago, I received a Schick Intuition shaver in the mail. Oooh, a freebie! Let me confess that I wouldn’t actually buy a Schick product under normal circumstances, as they are a company which tests its products on animals. But I figured that it would be wasteful not to make good use of [...]

No, they’re not panned because I don’t like them (which I don’t because they don’t fit me right) but because they have resorted to lowest-common-denominator advertising. And come on…we’re talking about Lee jeans here, quite possibly the most utilitarian jeans on the market after those campy Toughskins that just won’t go away. Anyhow, if you [...]

Dear V8 Splash,
While I can appreciate your desire to market a product with less sugar, I would also expect that when you used an artificial sweetener like sucralose (Splenda) as an ingredient, you would somehow make that bit of information VISIBLE somewhere on your bottle. Oh, and that teeny, tiny, almost unreadable font that you [...]

Earlier today a friend sent me this article. I don’t know why but some people just seem hell bent on trying to get me to stop buying organic food, like they’re helping me or something. You’d think they were footing my obscene grocery bills.
But anyway, this article discusses how the health benefits of organic milk [...]

I have banked at Washington Mutual since before it was Washington Mutual. I can’t remember what it was before - that is how long it has been. Why? Because they have Totally Free Checking and I am cheap that way.
But the thing I love about WaMu is the interface on the ATMs. It is so [...]