If you need ideas for fundraisers, Schoolpop may be just what you need
Our kids are grown and long gone from school and home now, but I remember well the times we bored and irritated coworkers and friends with sign-up sheets and order forms for school fundraisers. Whether you have school age kids or not, I suspect you know what I mean.
Well, if you’re looking for ways to raise funds for schools, for youth groups, looking for easy middle school fundraisers, or whatever, Schoolpop.com is a useful website you need to take a look at.
Schoolpop.com has partnered with a wide variety of online merchants and give cash-back rewards to schools, youth groups, and other organizations who register. All you have to do is shop online from one of the schoolpop.com merchant links, have your school or youth group registered, and a small percentage of your shopping will go to your school or other designated cause.
That’s pretty simplified and I’m sure I’ve left a lot out of the explanation. I urge you to go to the Schoolpop.com website and look around. They explain it all much better than I have, and you can register your school or organization while you’re there and get started.
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Behold the lowly ants — persistent little devils, aren’t they?
Every year in our part of the country, spring brings with it a steady infiltration of ants into homes all over our neighborhood.
These aren’t big, scary, biting creatures. They’re the tiny little creatures my dad always called “piss ants.” (Is that profanity? I don’t know.) And as it happens, the first stream of them this year has targeted our old cat’s food dish.
Anybody have some cleaver, sure-fire way to get rid of the little devils? We’ve tried spraying the area around her dish — after removing the dish, of course — and they were back within a day. The next day I went to the store and bought a box of ant traps. From what I’ve heard, these ant traps are infallible. They draw the ants in to feed, then the little critters take the poison in the food back to their nest and — WHAM! The ants will be gone.
Sure. Right. If you believe that, I’ve got a bridge in Brooklyn I’d like to sell you.
We’re moving into the second week of battling this tiny stream of persistent little ants. The old cat isn’t thrilled about it. She sometimes looks puzzled peering into her food dish as they crawl all over her dry food. My wife and I aren’t thrilled about it, either. We hate dumping the dry cat food into the trash and trying valiantly to gage the amount of food in the bowl to fit the cat’s eating habits so there’s nothing setting there to attract ants.
Yes, we’ve checked all around the outside of the house, near doors and windows, pretty much everywhere we can think of and — we’ve not found where the ants are getting in.
Ah, well. They’re usually gone with the heat and drier weather of summer. If we and the cat can stand it that long.
Any suggestions? Tell us, please.
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Treat your windows to a new look from this useful site for blinds
Looking for new window blinds? Perhaps in the market for some cellular blinds? If you want to beautify your home and really change the looks of your home for the good, here’s a useful website — JustBlinds.com. The company’s been in business since 1999 and boasts a huge selection of window blinds of every sort and color.
They offer a wide selection of wood and “faux” wood blinds and shades to fit every window in your home — or that one special window in that one special room you want to perk up. Their website includes instructions for measurements and installation to help you get the perfect do-it-yourself job done just right. In fact, they offer a number of installation videos on the site. And, if you really aren’t a do-it-yourself sort of person, you can search by ZIP code to find an installation professional near you.
Go take a look at their site. Even if you aren’t in the market for window blinds or shades right now, you’ll see the wonderful products they offer and you can bookmark the site for when you are.
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