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Entries from May 31st, 2010

White patriotic baseball caps for Memorial Day, Fourth of July, and September 11 2010

May 31st, 2010 · 1 Comment · Amazon, Veterans and Military

If you’re watching a Major League baseball game on Memorial Day 2010, you’ll see that the players are all wearing stylish white caps with red, white, and blue versions of their teams’ logos. This is an updated version of the all-red caps that were worn last year (and if you ask me, a lot more […]

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Brownies for Charity

May 28th, 2010 · No Comments · Uncommon Goods

Do-Goodie Brownies are delicious and fresh brownies from Greyston Bakery. They’re individually wrapped to seal in the gooey chocolatey freshness. You can choose assorted brownies, consisting of chocolate fudge, walnut fudge, expresso bean, and brown sugar, or you can choose all choocolate fudge. All profits go to the Greyston Foundation, which supports jobs, childcare, healthcare, […]

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Double your Donation to DonorsChoose with Groupon

May 26th, 2010 · 2 Comments · Education

Unless you’ve been under a rock, you’ve probably heard about a new site called Groupon. This is a site where every day in big cities around the country they post a new deal for 50% off a restaurant, attraction, or service. A certain number of people need to accept the deal to “tip” it, and […]

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Snapple Troparocka and Compassionberry Tea in stores now

May 23rd, 2010 · 62 Comments · Autism, Diabetes

Disclosure: We participate in the eBay Partner Network (EPN) meaning we may earn a commission when users click on links to eBay and make purchases.  If you’re having trouble finding Troparocka in your local store, you can try Amazon or eBay. Congratulations to Bret Michaels for being the 2010 Celebrity Apprentice. Last week while walking through Manhattan, I […]

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Gulf Oil Spill 2010 Clean Up — With Hair?

May 22nd, 2010 · No Comments · Conservation

UPDATE: This subject has gotten a lot of attention after a lot of buzz (no pun intended) in the press. Unfortunately, as with many stories like this, it turns out to have been too good to be true. Engineers and NOAA experts heading up the Gulf Oil spill cleanup announced that the use of booms […]

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Golf Balls that Help Charity

May 21st, 2010 · No Comments · Education, Uncategorized

For today only, the site Midnightbox.com is selling a box of used golf balls. The cost is $24.95 for a box of golf balls, all assorted well-known brand names. And as with all used golf balls, because they’re usually lost by bad golfers like me, chances are they’ve only been hit once or twice before […]

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Organ donation saves lives

May 19th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Organ Donation

I tend to surf the Web looking for causes to promote on this blog. But for today’s post, the cause was very clear. My girlfriend recently went through catastrophic liver failure. It was a situation where if she went without a liver for just a few more hours, she would not survive. Somewhere else in […]

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Rachel Ray Bakeware

May 16th, 2010 · No Comments · Amazon, Children's Charities, Cooking.Com

This set is a complete set of nonstick bakeware from Rachael Ray. The Rachael Ray Oven Lovin’ Exclusive Nonstick Everything Set contains seven pieces: a 10″ x 15″ cookie pan, a 12-cup muffin pan, two 9″ round cake pans, one 9″ square cake pan, a 9″ x 13″ rectangular cake pan, and a 9″ x 5″ loaf pan. The […]

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Kohl's Cares for Kids Sale on Dr. Seuss Books

May 12th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Uncategorized

Hurry and grab this one while it lasts! Kohl’s is having a clearance on Dr. Seuss books, including The Foot Book, Oh the Things You Can Think, If I Ran the Circus, and the book that caused a lot of us to “go green” before going green became a political thing: The Lorax. Note that […]

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Great computer games from independent publishers

May 10th, 2010 · No Comments · Children's Charities

There are only a few more hours to take advantage of this deal. As part of the Humble Indie Bundle, you can pay what you want–that’s right, what you want–for a bundle of five fantastic computer games from five great independent software developers. Independent basically means that there’s not the overhead of those bloated software […]

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