Love it - great ideas
Posted By: icytoes on 2009-02-13
In Reply to: Some Random Acts of Kindness (chosen at random) - lm
Sounds like all the things I did growing up in girls scouts. Good to bring them back to memory and do them again.
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THANKS for all the great ideas!
I appreciate your taking the time to share your recipes and post your links. Bless your hearts!
wow those are great ideas
We are in lonescouts. (I couldn't afford everything to go with wolf/cubscouts to join a pack) but the derby was at church. I will suggest those things. #3 is a great suggestion and would prevent many tears. I don't know if you are familiar with upward sports but that is how upward is. (It's a sports program) Every kid gets a star for something like best offense, best defense, most christ like, best effort, and categories like that.
Thank you again! :)
thanx for all the ideas, they are great!
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Thanks for all those great ideas everyone!
Okay people the yeast infection thing was a joke!
Those are great ideas!
I've got to find a battery operated mouse or something. My mom always tells me she's going to buy me one of those robotic vacuum cleaners and I've made her promise not to because I'm afraid my big cat would kill it!
Great ideas!
Thanks for the great ideas! I am going to spend time today looking in the paper for some type of thing to do to help the less fortunate, plus I am going to try to see the light in my children's eyes when they talk about Christmas coming, AND I am going to Walmart for that Peanuts sound track. Guess I am Type-A at even trying to get into the holiday spirit. You know I do believe once I take the focus off of me, me, me and put it on others, well that might just do the trick! Thanks, your responses already cheered this Scrooge up a bit :)
Great ideas below, and here's another (sm)
well, an idea, not sure how great. LOL
If they like trying new foods, or have foods that they like that they won't buy for themselves, you could make a little basket of delicacies for them. Before my in-laws had health problems, we used to buy them those little cakes soaked in liqueur, two or three arranged in a basket and they'd portion that out over a couple months.
My FIL likes spicy stuff so we have bought him various Tabasco-related items, or differing brands of hot sauce.
Last year my son sold scout popcorn and we bought him a big tin of that as a present.
If someone likes to cook, you could get them a set of fresh exotic spices.
Good luck, we're right there in the same boat with you!
All great ideas. Thanks so much. nm
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Great ideas! Thanks everyone~
I have thought about some of these before but didn't know if they would be worth the trouble or how to get started. You have provided some great information. I would really like to continue to have the flexibility to be at home but just earn a little extra from time to time.
some great ideas!
I just bought a brick of cheese so that is easy. also have some grapes, celery, carrots, and broccoli so I can make a decent veg tray with that and ranch salad dressing. i might just have to stop and get some crackers but i can get those at a gas station maybe.
Like you said, I am the DIL! lol but I know I'd make her upset if we left early so I better have some food so we can stay. lol
Great ideas! These people would definitely appreciate it! nm
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Just my 2 cents, these are great ideas!
I like the card making especially.
I just knew you all here would have some great ideas! sm
Thank you to everyone who responded. The poster who suggested a manicure and pedicure had the perfect suggestion because she LOVES getting those. I never would have thought of that myself because I am not good at ideas for gifts at all. Yep, I am going with that idea! Happy Mother's Day to all you mothers out there! 
Website with really great economical ideas
http://www.hillbillyhousewife.com/
She has some really good ideas that might work for you.
Wow!! What a great attitude! I love that - great perspective!
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Be back in a bit, I have to go to the grocery store now! Great ideas. nm
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Any funny/great ideas for couples Halloween costumes?
My 24-year-old DS and his SO have to dress up for a Halloween party. His older brother and his wife are going as Dog and Beth, and 24YO DS is trying to come up with something even better than that. Any ideas out there?
Great board and a super idea! How about fall decoration ideas?
Love canned tomatoes!. Here are some ideas.
Put some frozen bean and cheese burritos in cassarole, pour tomatoes (doesnt matter if they are any flavor or not) over them, add cheese on top and bake at 350 til hot and cheese melted and brown. Or mix with chicken broth, chicken, cumin, pepper flakes (optional), other fave spices and make mexican chicken soup. Top with strips of toasted tortillas. Cook shredded chicken in tomatoes with fave mexican spices and serve on tortillas for mexican chicken rolls. Again, doesnt matter if called Italian tomatoes, will work with anything.
You're awesome! I love your ideas of
puzzles and games. Very inexpensive, can get games or puzzles according to their personalities and all of us love family time so that would be great.
THANK YOU!!!
I love your ideas. I'm glad your family does too.
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Ahh quilts! Love the ideas. I actually have a quilt sm
top here on my office shelve that DH's grandma made for my son. Her health isn't too good now so she sent it to me to finish about a year ago!! Imitation fur sure does sound good on the other side of it. Maybe I'll make that a to do project while the work is slow with the holidays. Did she put the stuffing stuff in the middle? Sorry but I am not a quilter as you can see!
I have become a great fan of hers and love
her recipes! Have made several and have not been disappointed. They do get faster to make the second time because then you know what you need and what you are doing. Since she uses a lot of the same things, it is like building on a familiar foundation then. Good thing my DH loves garlic too! My favorite so far is the Messy Gillespie (sloppy Joe). Yummy!
wow! $60 is great. I'd love to pay that
I pay $60 just for the haircut. To blow it out is another $35, and if a flat iron has to be used, then it is another $35!! To cut and color my hair is $150 - without the blowdry!
FOX NEWS IS GREAT. I LOVE
Sheppard Smith. He is great.
I love this show- it's great and I want to go to NYC just to be on it!! nm
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Great picture! I love that one!
I can't get my dogs to wear hats or scarves. My dil dresses up her Pug each Halloween. This year, he was Darth Vadar.
LOVE it! Great idea.
Desperate times call for desperate measures. Love your solution.
I love TCM. Great movies.
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I know, I love my company too. They're great (sm)
but how many years of life can a person spend sitting in front of a computer? I love the flexibility, love not having to go to an office... but get so tired of sitting and typing all day. And here I am typing again...because you guys are the only people who can relate ;-)
I Am Legend looks great. LOVE Will Smith!
I also just bought Licensed to Wed with Robin Williams on DVD. I plan on watching that either tonight or tomorrow night.
Great question...I love polls!
The Office ~ Grey's Anatomy ~ Friday Night Lights (please be back in the fall!) ~ I also have the first 4 seasons of Emergency! on DVD and have watched them over and over. (If I could figure out how to change my avatar, Paul would be replaced with Johnny Gage!) I will also watch Deadliest Catch with DH.
I love your posts Hayseed! Your answers are great!
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Vacuum cleaner works great for me! Love those midair catches.
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Great job! Our local paper had a posting that got 75 resumes, including mine! Love
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I LOVE love love shallots! I use them in everything that calls for an onion and/or garlic. Mmmmmm. n
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I have a great brother like that too! I love my Big Brother!
Enjoy the love!
American Idol - Love, love, love Adam!!!
I think he'll make it til the end! At least I hope so!
Limbo. Great song, great game. Also,
The girls all line up and walk through a room as if they are modeling on the catwalk. Get a couple of bright colored boa's from the party store. It's a real riot and the kids have a blast especially if a couple of brave boys grab a boa and do it too. We've had many a birthday party doing this and it was totally hilarious.
What great determination and help from a great friend! :) nm
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I am sure that you are a great mother and a great cook,
and that you tried everything, now try the 'hunger diet'.
My niece had a Yorkie, the love of her life! We all loved her so. Lots of love in store for you.
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Love movie "A Christmas Story" when dogs eat the turkey and they go out for Chinese. We love d
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She's sweet. I think she's gorgeous. Love her hair. Love her sm
smile. I wish I looked that great! I don't even come close, so who am I do judge? I admire beauty greatly in other women...I envy them!
sweet....love the heart charm, he's got love.
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God bless you on your path, all love begins with self-love, so you are really on your way.....sm
We should have less time putting needless labels on things, paying attention to dividing lines, and pratice more love, understanding, and humiility....we will all have things to answer for, no one is perfect, but I believe we are all precious and loved by the Lord, who knows all hearts, and has infinitely more compassion and mercy than ANY of us can comprehend. Be happy and take care of yourself, sexuality is such a small part of who we are in this world, but you have to be happy and at peace.
I love the animal channel, really love it and
my sweetie and I both watch but I absolutely, even if I know nature and the balance of, want to see small animals being killed and eaten and so forth. I know it happens but I either change the station or pick up the paper and read or find another way so I don’t watch. Also watch Discovery, love animals and love those shows!
I love you! hahaha I love your response! You can come over here sm
and kick my butt the next time I "allow" my husband to make me feel crap for whatever reason - which there seems to be many - he wouldn't complain if I made more money than him because his lazy behind wants to stay home and do nothing all day except to play golf. He tells me all the time, "when are you going to own your MT business so I can golf all day."
But, he is very mean, also. He hurts my feelings constantly and doesn't even care. He makes me drive around in his truck with bald tires and I don't like doing that for fear of a blow out and he'll just tell me, "well, don't go anywhere then." We have the money in the bank to get new tires, but he won't get them.
I love your comment, though!
And for all of you who will say, "well, leave the jerk!" It isn't that easy. We have 3 boys and I would be homeless. I only make 300 every 2 weeks MTing. We have a lovely home with a lot of space and besides him living here, the kids and I LOVE it and love each other so much.
Well, I LOVE a challenge too, Would love to debate this one day with you! sm
haha
Seriously, I was a staunch atheist for 20+ years. It's funny, though. I, too, believe that we are all electrical energies and that energy doesn't "die" and so, theoretically, where does your "electricity" go when you die, i.e., your spirit? I believe that "energy" within us is our spirit life - and that must go somewhere, right? It doesn't just go into the groun - which is what I thought for so long.
Anyways, when I learned about our "energy" and how it must go somewhere, I was really testing the waters of Christianity up to that point. After hearing about that, I was convinced that there must be an afterlife. I believe we go either of 2 places.
Anyways, I love ALL people of all religions, regardless of what I "think" or "believe." I don't think any less of you because of your beliefs! If I were to believe in a God who forgave me and loved me in my mut and mire, who am I to judge and criticize those who think differently of me?
I've always liked you no matter what your philosophy on life was....
Love people who love dogs.
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I love the dressing and I love lemon pie..sm
My mom's lemon pie that is. I also love this dessert called Texas Delight or some people call it different things but is is layers of chocolate pudding and cream cheese and whipped cream. The food is my favorite part besides the watching my son open presents on x-mas.
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