February 9, 2012 archive

Gift card trick (AKA Operation: Keep your money!)

Gift cards are great. They are easy to give and seem a little nicer than cash. You can give them from afar instantly! And stores like CVS are giving out gift cards with certain purchases in recent promotions. Just like cash, right? It’s the gift that keeps on giving. Just not to you. The problem: …

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Emergency Shabbat meals kit (freezer/cupboard version)

As I posted about here, I recently was hospitalized and didn’t get to prep anything for Shabbat. Now, we could have had Shabbat meals from whatever we could find or tried to organize things to go buy the whole thing, but it was nice to have my emergency Shabbat meals set aside. We pulled the …

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