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3rd Annual Sweetheart Arts & Crafts Show
3rd Annual Sweetheart Arts & Crafts Show
When: February 11-12, 2012 – 10:00 A.M. – 5:00 P.M. Each Day
Where: Brasstown Valley Resort
The Psychological Tactics That Supermarkets Use On Customers
More than 50% of supermarket purchases are “impulse buys”. You may not have known that, but the supermarkets do. And they’ve built their stores accordingly. A fool and his grocery cart are soon filled to the brim.
In this 6-minute video from NBC’s The Today Show, you’ll learn how supermarkets use everything from packaging to placement so that customers spend more of their money with each store visit.
Among the supermarkets’ tricks:
- Placing flowers and bakery at the front of the store to “make you salivate”
- Specific “deal wording” (e.g. Buy 5 for $5.00) meant to entice larger purchases
- Placing staples on top and bottom shelves, leaving middle shelves for impulse products
The piece also recommends shopping a supermarket in a clockwise-fashion. It helps you spend less time in the store.
We’re all mindful of our household budgets. Watch this video to save more money on your next trip for groceries.
Make Your Chopped Salads Easier!
With the Oxo Salad Chopper, making chopped salad for the family and/or friends is both faster and safer.
Using a dual-blade roller knife similar to a pizza cutter, the ergonomic Salad Chopper cuts lettuce, vegetables, fruits, meats and nuts with just a few rolls. There’s no need for a separate cutting board (and no worries of slicing a finger).
Made from stainless steel, the angle-handled roller is built to trace the curves of the accompanying Oxo bowl. The blades remain in constant contact with the plastic and the rim has a built-on grip to help you get a handle on your work.
The 5.5-quart bowl is big enough for 6 servings and is dishwasher-safe. Oxo says you can serve in it, too, but that’s up to you.
Trade in store-bought salad bags and opt for something fresher. Oxo’s Salad Chopper sells on Amazon.com for $25.
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How To Buy A Good Night's Sleep
NBC’s The Today Show hosted Consumer Reports for its take on mattresses. Some of the results may surprise you.
At 7 minutes, the video is long, but it’s stuffed with helpful comfort tips, including the scientific reason why a mattress should be replaced every 8 years or so. Some of the other advice includes:
- How to reduce morning aches and pains with proper pillow choices
- Why “hot sleepers” should stay away from memory foam
- How to properly test a mattress in the store before you buy it
After its testing and a series of interviews with consumer and industry workers, Consumer Reports also concludes that — for a queen-sized bed — a $1,000 list price is going to give you “a lot of bed”; there’s little need to spend more. And, furthermore, because mattress prices are usually negotiable by half-off or more off, you could buy that $1,000 mattress at a significant discount.
More than 70% of people successfully negotiate lower mattress prices.
Consumer Reports acknowledges that there’s no “#1 mattress”, per se, because mattresses are a personal fit in terms of both firmness and size. With respect to durability, however, most will last for years.
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Foldable Speakers Are Perfect For Your Office
Fold-up speakers for your MP3 players? You better believe it. OrigAudio’s Eco-friendly Fold-N-Play speakers let you take your favorite play lists on the road to your office, hotel rooms and the beach.
Made from recycled materials, the Fold-N-Play speakers and arrives in a similarly-recycled box. It’s two, flat pieces of cardboard with embedded speakers and an attached cable. There’s no batteries.
All you need is a headphone jack.
Follow the enclosed instructions to convert the speakers into 3-inch cubes of sound. Then, when you’re done, fold them back up and slip them into your laptop sleeve. The 1-watt sound won’t rival a home stereo system, but will outperform most internal laptop speaker sets.
The OrigAudio Fold-N-Play made Time Magazine’s list of 50 Best Inventions of 2009. It sells for $20 per set, or $80 for all 6 available styles.
Visit the OrigAudio website at http://origaudio.com.
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