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support our troops: operation zipper pouch

One of my readers is having a fundraiser for men and women in the military. She’s an independent consultant for Thirty-One Gifts and if you purchase a Zippered Pouch personalized with “Thank You,” she’ll be filling them with things like beef jerky, hard candies, toiletries, cards, wipes, etc.

Cost of this personalized pouch is $21.75 and that includes all tax and shipping. Skip a few Starbucks trips or get one less gift this

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Steve and I just had a discussion tonight about gifts this holiday season… we’ve spent way too much money lately, but it has all been on our new house and on our incredibly spoiled little boy! We have almost no gifts yet for Christmas and LOTS of people to buy for! We tried to brainstorm what to get each person, but some of them are so hard!

Gift cards are nice for people that are tough to buy for or for people out of town… but a gift card to where?! What’s their favorite store? What do they need? Where do they want to eat? AH MORE DECISIONS.

Thanks to Array Gift, you can buy one gift card and the recipient can select where they want to use it–from over 500 retailers! Seriously, every store you could want is on there.

And? These cards have no fees and no expiration dates.

You can instantly buy and send your gift card online – it will be emailed to the recipient or you can choose to print it. Once it is given as a gift, the recipient gets on Array Gift to redeem it! The image above shows what they’ll see. You can see I have a balance of $100 to redeem. If you know what store you want to use it on, you can type it in – otherwise you can browse alphabetically or search by category (food, clothes, etc.). There’s also a form you can print to redeem by mail, if you prefer.

I used mine on Walmart. Part of me wanted to use it on something FUN (like chocolate?!), but I decided to be responsible… Walmart is basically the only store in this new small town we just moved to and they have almost everything. The $100 will be used well! AND instead of getting one $100 card to Walmart, I decided to get FOUR $25 cards to Walmart, in case we decided to use some of them as gifts! Handy!

Want to try it out?!

GIVEAWAY: enter to win a $100 gift card to Array Gift, which can be used on over 500 retailers, you pick! Please use the form below to enter. Open to US and Canada.
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Calendar board tutorial

I am terrible at cooking dinner and I *think* (hope?) that if I plan out meals in advance and know what I need to buy at the grocery store, I’ll be more likely to cook. I’m one of those people that must have a recipe to cook with. Unlike my husband, I’m missing the gene that allows you to throw random food together and have it taste delicious.

So… I’ve been wanting a calendar/white board/to-do list type board

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More baby gifts

This is all coming at once because I’m way behind on taking the pictures and getting the post up. We’ve collected these purchases and gifts over the last 9 months!! Here are some other awesome things we’ve gotten, apart from the baby showers…

A motherhood memory box

A frog Crane humidifier

Our bouncer

I made this bulletin board,

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Baby Shower #3

Ok, third and final! This one was thrown for Steve’s side of the family by his sister, aunt and cousin (in law). Wonderful ladies! They had a picture board that everyone signed and wrote nice messages on. Once baby is born, a family picture will go in and it will be framed Love it! We played a word scramble of baby related things — it was tough! We guessed how many pacifier candies were in a jar… and each gift

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