Archive for January, 2009

Gas stations are good places to buy gas

Friday, January 9th, 2009

They're not good places for buying much of anything else, though. I stopped in a Sheetz on the way home tonight.  (Somehow I managed to need exactly 8.000 gallons in my car, but that's another story.)  Their subs are good; I'll take their subs or Subway's equally.  Made-to-order food is the ...

Secondhand kids’ clothes could become harder to find

Sunday, January 4th, 2009

I found an interesting article via The Simple Dollar: this piece from the Los Angeles Times regarding the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act of 2008. The really short version of the main point of this post:  Sellers of clothing for children aged 12 and under will have to submit these articles ...

What to do with those State Quarter maps?

Saturday, January 3rd, 2009

Over Christmas I found a Hawaii quarter, which is the fiftieth quarter in the State Quarters series from the US Mint.  We got home late Thursday and amongst all of the unpacking we punched out the last circle in the map and put Hawaii in. We looked it over for about ...