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My aStore’s open for business

January 31, 2009

Something I’ve been working on for a while now, is an aStore – two actually, one through Amazon USA and one through Amazon Germany. I’ve gathered items I think might be of interest to my readers there, where you can browse and if you wish, buy, with a small percentage of the sale going to [...]

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Weekly Winners – 28 December 2008

December 28, 2008

December 21 – December 27, 2008 It’s the last Weekly Winners of 2008! We had a busy holiday week with a lot of traveling. On the way to see Oma and Opa, we stopped at Bad Dürkheim And just happened to drive through the town of Frankenstein Where we saw the ruins of Frankenstein’s castle [...]

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Baking soda gets big, well, bigger

December 20, 2008

I’m busy making Christmas cookies today, but wanted to drop all you expats in Germany a quick note.  Yesterday while shopping for ingredients at Laaber’s very small Edeka supermarket, I noticed 250g bags of Natron (baking soda) for sale in the spice section.  Sure, it’s about the size of the small Arm & Hammer boxes, [...]

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Some ideas to help you be a little greener

November 29, 2008

Today is International Buy Nothing Day.  Are you gonna participate?  For you readers in Germany, it might be difficult if you planned on getting groceries today to avoid shopping (sorry I didn’t give earlier notice, just learned about it about an hour ago), since the stores are closed in most places on Sundays and going [...]

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Scraping the bottom of the barrel

November 25, 2008

Only 5 more days of NaBloPoMo left, thank goodness.  Don’t think I’ll do this again, at least not while I’m on vacation with my family.  It’s really hard to come up with ideas to write about every day.  I think I’m going to need a brief blogging break in December. I’ve had a fun week [...]

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How do you deal with jerks?

November 12, 2008

Today was apparently jerk day in northern Virginia.  We spent the day running errands for my mom and kept encountering irritating people and obnoxious, unhelpful sales clerks. What was it?  Post-election let-down? Normally, when someone is a little (or a lot) rude to me, I try to give them the benefit of the doubt.  Maybe [...]

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Get 25% off at Hello Food!

June 8, 2008

Hello Food, a German site that carries American and Canadian foods, is discontinuing their online store. All orders over 35 Euro are 25% off. This almost makes the prices palatable. So get over there and see if there’s something you want to order before everything sells out. Happy shopping!

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