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Fall Back and change your batteries with Energizer (GIVEAWAY)

Nov 032012

It’s that time of year. Yep, time to move the clocks. And while you are at it, make sure that you also change the batteries in your smoke detectors. Make sure to check your preparedness kit and that everything is still working or in date. We never know when an emergency can occur, just ask the folks in the Northeast who are dealing with the devastating effects of Hurricane Sandy.

Tonight, early tomorrow as we get ready to “Fall Back” we will be testing our smoke alarms to make sure they are still in good working order and we will be changing the batteries even though they may still seem ok. Why do we do this? Because, I would rather have the peace of mind KNOWING that the batteries won’t die and fail us when/if we need them. And we can use the batteries we remove in other devices that we don’t depend on to save our lives. We stocked up on Energizer Max batteries earlier in the week just for this purpose. Why Energizer? Because they last. They are dependable. And this is one instance that I am not willing to sacrifice quality to save a few pennies.

Today also marks the 25^th anniversary of the annual Change Your Clock Change Your Battery^® program. Energizer and the International Association of Fire Chiefs (IAFC) are once again working with local fire departments nationwide to raise awareness on the importance of working smoke alarms and carbon monoxide detectors in helping to keep families safe in their homes. Did you know that thirty-eight percent of fatal fire injuries occur in homes with no smoke alarms, while 24 percent occur in homes in which at least one smoke alarm is present but fails to operate, frequently due to dead or missing batteries.*

So PLEASE – remember to change the batteries in your smoke alarms and carbon monoxide detectors when you set your clocks back – it could help save a life. YOURS!

AND, thanks to Energizer, one lucky reader will win a Family Safety Kit complete with a reusable grocery tote containing:

· Two packages of Energizer_® MAX_® Batteries with Power Seal Technology – Dependable, powerful performance for the devices that help keep your family safe; now hold their charge when stored for up to 10 years

· One Energizer_®Flameless Wax Candle – Enjoy the realistic flicker of a scented wax candle without the worry of open flame or hassle of soot and dripping wax

· One Energizer_® Weatheready^® Safety Light – Waterproof flashlight powered by AA, AAA or C cell batteries; includes safety whistle and imprinted preparedness checklist

· One Kidde Battery-Operated Combination Carbon Monoxide and Smoke Alarm

The total value of the Family Safety Kit is approximately $78 per kit.

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Also, through tomorrow November 4, visit the Energizer Bunny^® Facebook page and click on the Fire Safety Info Tab. Here you will have the chance to enter a sweepstakes to win an additional Family Safety Kit. Energizer will be giving away one Family Safety Kit per day for 25 days. Contained in the kit, valued at more than $150 is:

· One reusable grocery tote

· Two Kidde Battery-Operated Combination Carbon Monoxide and Smoke Alarms

· One package of Energizer Advanced Lithium batteries

· One package of Energizer® MAX® Batteries with Power Seal Technology

· Two Energizer flashlights

· Two Energizer Flameless Wax Candles

· One Energizer Bunny Plush Bunny

In addition you can find fire safety tips, a home escape plan that you can download and draw your family’s home escape plan, as well as a coloring and activity sheet.

The Change Your Clock Change Your Battery^®program is just one of the ways Energizer brings to life the company’s commitment to making a positive impact in communities across the country. that’s positivenergy_™For more information, please visit energizer.com and facebook.com/energizerbunny.

* Fire statistics were obtained from reports by the Fire Analysis and Research Division of the National Fire Protection Association.

”Thank you to Energizer for supplying some of the information to help facilitate this post. I was also supplied with a promotional item in thanks for my participation. All opinions are those of my own.”

Happy New School Year! (GIVEAWAY)

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Sep 052011

Twas the night before school started, when all through the town, the parents were cheering… It was a riotous sound! By 8, kids were washed and tucked into bed… Where memories of homework filled them with dread! New pencils, new folders, new notebooks too! New teachers, new friends…Their anxiety grew! The parents just giggled when they learned of this fright-and shouted upstairs: Go To Bed! It’s A School Night!!

Happy New School Year

Tomorrow is the first day of school here locally. Of course since I homeschool Tate, we have been back for awhile, but the public schools head to class tomorrow. We have a full-load this year including American History, Chemistry and Calculus. I have no idea how all this Calculus mess is going to go, it all looks like a foreign subject to me but at least Tate has some kinda clue what is going on and needs little help from me. Our goal is for him to take the SAT next year and then take some college classes next fall. He will only be 15 then and I am just hoping it was the right decision to make.

I remember when my kids first went to school. What a bittersweet day. I hated to see them head into that big school on that very first day but I was thrilled that they were going to have their minds opened and expanded. I love to read and was so excited when they were learning, we could then have the biggest adventures through books each and every night.

Nestle is having a HUGE giveaway at nestlefamily.com which is called the Happy New School Year Sweepstakes. Feel free to enter every day for a chance to win the grand prize of $5,000 worth of back-to-school essentials plus a $2,000 NESTLÉ Literacy Grant for your school, plus daily prizes of $50 reward cards. The sweepstakes ends October 15, 2011, but remember…you can enter DAILY!

AND…

To celebrate being back in the classroom I am happy to announce the Nestlé Family Happy New School Year Survival Guide giveaway in partnership with Reading is Fundamental here at The Post-It Place! The prize pack includes:

A $25 MasterCard rewards card, $20 worth of school supplies, a mix of free coupons from STOUFFER’S, JUICY JUICE, TOLL HOUSE Morsels and Refrigerated Cookie Dough, NESQUIK, and TOMBSTONE; $3 off coupon from BOOST Kid Essentials; product from WONKA, Baby Ruth, CRUNCH and BUTTERFINGER; a straw dispenser and coupon booklet.

To ENTER: Leave a comment stating what your favorite thing about the first day of school is. I always liked watching the kids agonize over the perfect outfit…then I loved coming back home and taking a nap

All entries must be received by September 14th, 2011 at 11:59 PM.All entries must have a valid US mailing address. Winner will be selected randomly and will have 3 days to respond to the verification e-mail or another winner will be chosen.

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Seagate Saves The Day

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Dec 072010

Recently I was asked to check out the Seagate GoFlex 1 TB external Hard Drive. It couldn’t have come at a better time. I hooked up the Seagate GoFlex and backed up my whole system. I knew that my desktop computer had been having some issues and that I needed to back everything up “just in case”. Well, a few days later, my computer bit the dust. Actually, it caught on fire. That was a little scary and is a whole nother post.

I would have been devastated to loose all of my pictures and documents but thanks to Seagate, I was able to save a great deal of my data, photos and videos.

GoFlex

The FreeAgent GoFlex does SOOO much more though. Here is how you can get more out of a GoFlex drive:

Just looking for a safe, simple way to backup your files?

Then all you need is a GoFlex ultra-portable or a GoFlex Desk drive. No matter which GoFlex drive you choose you’ll get Seagate ® reliability, protection for your precious files with pre-loaded backup and encryption software, and the Seagate Dashboard management tool for easy management of your backup schedules, file encryption and at-a-glance statistics.

Do you use both a PC and Mac ® ?

Then you’re in luck because GoFlex ultra-portable and GoFlex Desk drives all work interchangeably with any PC or Mac computer. Now you can use the same hard drive with all of your computers. Take your GoFlex Ultra-portable to work and use it on your office PC, then bring it home and use it with your personal Mac. What could be easier?

Looking to adopt the latest technologies?

GoFlex ultra-portable and GoFlex Desk drives let you upgrade to USB 3.0, FireWire ® 800 or eSATA for file transfer speeds up to 10x faster than USB 2.0. GoFlex is a smart investment that gives you a smarter way to store, access and manage your data. Customize your drive by selecting GoFlex upgrade cables and adapters for faster transfer speeds than USB 2.0 with USB 3.0, FireWire ® 800 or eSATA . If you want to upgrade your old PC to USB 3.0 today, select the GoFlex Upgrade Cable Kit—USB 3.0 to upgrade both your GoFlex ultra-portable drive and your laptop. Or select the GoFlex Desk Desktop Adapter Kit—USB 3.0 to upgrade both your GoFlex Desk and your desktop computer. And add other GoFlex devices for a new level of connectivity to your home network, your TV and all of your digital media.

Have tons of HD movies on your computer?

Pair a GoFlex Ultra-portable drive with the GoFlex TV HD media player. Watch, share and store your digital media-including home video, photos and HD movies—directly on your TV in stunning 1080p HD with the GoFlex TV HD media player. You can also add a GoFlex Net media sharing device to stream content from any drive on your home network onto your TV. And upgrade to a GoFlex USB 3.0 or FireWire 800 cable and transfer your files fast—an HD movie transfers in just four minutes compared to 14 minutes with USB 2.0!

Want to access your files anytime, anywhere?

Simply pair a GoFlex Ultra-portable drive with the GoFlex Net media sharing device. Access and share your files, videos and photos from within your home network, over the Internet-even from your iPhone ® , BlackBerry or Android ® device.

Want to automatically back up and protect all of your files?

It’s easy to turn any GoFlex ultra-portable drive into an automated, full-system backup device by pairing it with a GoFlex auto backup upgrade cable.

Seagate has drastically improved the way we store all of our media, files, etc through the GoFlex family of products. I have no idea what I would do without mine. We now have one hooked up to every computer in this house. Back-ups are a regularly scheduled occurance in this household and our new motto is: GoFlex, never compute without it!

“Seagate supplied me with a GoFlex to help facilitate this review. I purchased all of the others mentioned in this post. All opinions stated are those of my own and were in no way influenced by any outside source.”

Talk about a GREAT gift this Christmas. You can find them at most retailers nationwide. I know first hand that Office Depot carries the Seagate GoFlex 1 TB for $99! I know this because now every computer in this house is equiped with one. That makes the GoFlex not only a great device to have but affordable too. And, pair it with the Roxio Creator 2011 software and you have a great gift for a 3D experience like no other…YOUR OWN!

“I was provided with a Seagate GoFlex to help facilitate this review. All opnions stated are those of my own and were in no way influenced by any outside source”

New Body with New Balance

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Dec 012010

For a couple of weeks I have been sporting around town wearing the New Balance first-ever truebalance toning shoes. Let me just say that New Balance has revolutionized the toning category with the introduction of the first-ever truebalance toning shoes. As part of the brand’s newly developed Wellness initiative, truebalance allows women of all ages to tone their bodies without calling attention themselves or their footwear. truebalance is stylish, comfortable, subtle and most of all, effective. Walking in the new 1100 and 850 truebalance shoes will tone the muscles in your legs to your glutes to your core and help burn calories. Burning calories is the basis of weight loss, a goal for a healthy wellbeing and increased energy, awareness, joy and personal sustainability. One of my FAVORITE features of these shoes is that they not only tone as you walk…they improve your posture as well! That folks has also helped with some of my back issues. These babies are fabulous and without changing anything other than my shoes I have lost 8 pounds. I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE them. I had considered buying a pair of toning shoes for quite some time but hated they way that they looked but the New Balance truebalance ones do not look like the typical toning shoes with fat bottoms and weird curves. They look more like normal tennis shoes and come in stylish colors.

NB1100

The 1100 is available at high-end department stores and other specialty retailers in four colorways including grey/lime, black/purple, grey/blue and white/pink. MSRP: $110.00

NB850

The 850 is available in four colorways including white/grey/pink, black/grey/pink, silver/blue and white/tan/coral. MSRP: $90.00

These make GREAT christmas gifts for anyone in your life that is looking to loose a few pounds, work on their tone or that just needs a great pair of shoes. After ranting and raving about these shoes…I am looking forward to a second pair. Thanks Santa!!

“I received a sample pair of the truebalance shoes to help facilitate this post. All opinions stated are thos of my own and were not influenced by receipt of product or by any outside source.”