The cart corral at my local grocery is convenient to the parking lot, but out-of-the-way if you park a bicycle beside the store. Wearing my helmet, sunglasses with rear-view mirrors, and carrying my pannier (bike bags) I spied a cart near the door, and walked briskly towards it.

An employee came out the door and started pushing it toward the corral.

“May I have that…

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I told my husband about the creative challenge of what can be made from the dollar store. He said he had an idea, but he didn't want to explain it--until last night, when I entered the bedroom and he spoke proudly through a small hole around his mouth: "Honey, Here is my present to you, as nicely wrapped as I could manage. It wasn't easy, but here I am, all yours! And there is still at least half a box left, so I'm guessing this get-up cost about 50 cents or…

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This challenge left me dry for ideas, so I went to the nearest dollar store. I thought walking on the stained blue industrial carpet, basking in the fluorescent radiance between the haphazardly filled rows of shelving might release my creativity. Normally I'd take a walk in the woods for this purpose. But not today. Today I found my muse in the unnatural magnificence of America's downmarket shopping choices. After spending a few bucks at the Dollar Store and a few minutes with a hacksaw blade,… Continue

                    

 

                     Loonie Writer Wednesday Round-Up:What I made from the Dollar Store

 

 

Since Zoomers is busy this week we the bloggers have come up with a fun writing challenge called



                                   

"What I Made from the Dollar Store"



If you have a recipe you have made with ingredients from the Dollar Store- or some craft or other…

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                         Please play one of Steve Job's favourite songs as you  scroll down

 

 

      

 

 

 

 

 "You were a round peg in a square hole - thank goodness for…

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Last week the police had to be called to interrupt a fight between two young men over an available iPad2 in Beijing China. Of course the Apple staff could not be reached for comment as they were too busy taking pictures of the incident on their iPhones. Malachi Urbini, an Art Institute of Pittsburgh student, who was killed Sunday after he tried to trade his IPad and his IPod for heroin. What has this world come to? To heck with the gluttony and wrath from the Seven Deadly Sins; we now have…

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Saturday from dawn to dusk was Record Store Day. For anyone who does not live with an audiophile and has no clue what it is, I will give you a brief sentence or two. Record Store Day was dreamed up by one Chris Brown in 2007. 

Chris is an employee of the independent record store chain, Bull Moose, located in Maine and New Hampshire. It is the one day of the year that all of the mom and pop record stores come together with artists to celebrate…

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There are three cool new photo contests on Lenzr that end March 1st 2010. The website has become way more social with the adoption of new voting metrics which favour comments. Now the best photos have lots of conversation on them.

Who is going to WIN the prizes in the following photo challenges?…

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