Favorite Fragrances

Favorite Fragrances

Does Each Woman Have Her Own Signature Scent?

Celebrities, fashion designers and others develop and market perfumes, from affordable and trendy to posh and pricey. Experts claim each scent will respond uniquely on each individual, producing an individual fragrance.

My favorite scent is probably Tresor by Lancome. This scent can be tricky to find, but the sweet and subtle blending of roses and other florals is quite special.

For every day use, I also like Lady Stetson. As a horse enthusiast, why not?

What’s Your Favorite Perfume?

Please participate in our blog poll, indicating your favorite scent of all. Leave a comment, if you will, letting us know what your best fragrance is and why you love it. What do you think your choice of perfume says about you?

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Catch Eyes with Holiday Specs

Catch Eyes with Holiday Specs

Are you looking for a way to improve your sight this holiday season, while enhancing your stylish appearance? Why not try a brand-new pair of fancy and festive eyeglasses?

Zenni Optical offers its own brand of fashion eyeglass frames, rather than name-brand designers. Still, a sizable selection of holiday frames may be found on the company's website.

Most of the designs seem to be reasonably priced.Prices range from $10.00 to about $40.00 for bright and colorful holiday eyeglass frames at Zenni Optical. This website is simple to navigate and offers dozens of choices of optical frames in a wide variety of vibrant hues. (Some of our favorites are pictured here. Photos used by permission of Zenni Optical.)

Orders may be placed directly online with a major credit card.

Zenni Optical offers single-vision, bifocal and progressive lenses in high-impact, UV-protective, scratch-resistant plastics. Of course, each custom eyeglass order requires an opthalmologist’s prescription, to ensure eyeglasses are produced to meet the wearer’s individual sight adjustment requirements.

The company offers a 30-day warranty on all eyeglass purchases, as well as a 50 percent refund on eyeglasses returned within four weeks. Zenni Optical does not provide lens replacement or eyeglass repair services, although replacement frames may be ordered from current inventory, if needed.

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Why not become a vision of loveliness with a new pair of eyeglasses? Decorative frames can be fun.

Who’s Calling, Please?

Who’s Calling, Please?

Crank callers and telemarketers, best beware.

Do you receive annoying telephone calls from unknown phone numbers? Have you missed a few incoming calls, but you are not sure who the callers were? Would you like to know who has been calling you?

Look up any phone number.

A free online service, called PhoneInfoTracer.com, can quickly identify unknown telephone callers, as long as you can retrieve their phone numbers from your telephone or caller identification system.

Here’s how it works: You simply visit the PhoneInfoTracer.com website, and type in the mysterious phone number. Within seconds, a report will appear, listing the phone number owner’s name and address. The results include the caller’s city, county, state and telephone service provider.

For unlisted phone numbers, only the telephone service provider and local area information may be listed, although a paid search option may offer additional identifying details.

PhoneInfoTracer.com is simple to use, and it is available for cellular phone and land-line numbers in the United States and Canada.

Of course, all PhoneInfoTracer.com lookups are completely confidential. Callers will not be alerted that you have investigated their phone numbers.

What a handy and simple solution for identifying missed calls and unknown callers.

Ask Bill About Credit

Ask Bill About Credit

Here are a few rhetorical questions about credit. (You don’t have to answer these out loud.)

How’s your personal credit? Do you know?

Do you know the difference between charge credit, installment credit and revolving credit?

What is amortization, anyway? And how might the Equal Credit Opportunity Act affect you personally?

Have you ever been turned down for credit? What can you do about it?

Do you know how to establish personal credit? How about improving your current credit standing? And how can you even find out where you currently stand?

Where can you find answers to these sticky credit-related questions? Just ask Bill.

Founded by a group of Stanford Business School graduates, Bills.com is an online resource site offering information and how-tos on bill consolidation, credit, debts, insurance, loans and mortgages.

Perhaps the most helpful section pertains to credit counseling. Here, consumers can find informative descriptions and details on credit cards, credit monitoring, credit rate comparisons, credit reports and more.

For personalized credit counseling and financial advice, users can “Ask Bill” and receive a specific response via email.

In today’s challenging economy, as financial institutions seem to offer increasingly complex lending programs, while tax codes grow ever more undecipherable, this online help may prove extremely helpful to consumers.

This simple-to-navigate site, with helpful tabs and links, can help individuals and families to navigate the modern-day credit marketplace more effectively.

Back-to-School Labeling

Back-to-School Labeling

As yellow school buses roll through neighborhoods again, families melt their plastic credit cards to purchase school supplies for their elementary, middle school and high school students.

How can students keep track of their spirals, scissors and school supply boxes? How can pupils prevent loss of their pens, pencils, papers and protractors? And how can learners look after their lunchboxes in lockers and lunchrooms?

Smart students and their families label their file folders to organize at-home and school studies.

Here’s the DYMO tip I found most helpful:

Does your child have allergies to peanuts, latex, bee stings or anything else? Why not label your child’s lunch bag, daily planning notebook, or even your child’s own clothing accordingly? You can even print allergy alerts on colorful tapes to notify teachers and school staff easily to prevent an allergy episode.(Why not include your emergency phone number, just in case?)

DYMO label makers make label making a breeze. Marking backpacks, gym uniforms, binders, sports gear and even toys is simple. Embossers and basic labelers range from about $8 to nearly $25. Electronic labelers start at $30. Label refills are available from the secured DYMO website.

What could be simpler?

Authentic Police Gear - for Great Cop Costumes and Rugged Wear

Authentic Police Gear -
for Great Cop Costumes and Rugged Wear

Looking for real-life law enforcement accessories for a costume party, paint ball game or other practical purpose?

Founded by actual Los Angeles officers, LA Police Gear supplies authentic law enforcement apparel and equipment to military personnel, security professionals, and the general public.

Here's an example of their real-life police merchandise: 5.11 Tactical Shorts. For a limited time, LA Police Gear is offering free shipping and a free hat to customers ordering at least two 5.11 product items.

From flashlights to footwear, holsters to handcuffs, boots to backpacks, gloves to gas masks, watches to work clothes, spotlights to shorts, this site has plenty of products.

The site is easy to navigate. Shop by brand or category. LA Police Gear even offers closeouts for cut-rate prices on police items.

Does Blogging Pay?

A few trusted friends have begun blogging with Pay Per Post, so I decided to give it a try. This is my first item for Pay Per Post, as this blog (Practically at Home) has just been approved.

Apparently, that makes me one of the Posties. (Is that anything like a Post Toastie? I have no idea.)

Having just started, I am not altogether sure what to expect, but I am looking forward to doing more product reviews, web-site evaluations and similar practical consumer-related posts. Right now, it seems they have about 100 topics from which to choose, if eligible.

This site pays bloggers (with approved blogs) who accept specific topic assignments and produce blog posts related to those products or topics. Bloggers are paid through their PayPal accounts.

Watch here (Practically at Home) for more!

If the experience pays off, as I hope it will, I plan to add to The Mane Point Equine Experience Fund, a most worthwhile cause.

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