In My Bag

When I was pregnant with Alyssa, I found a consignment shop in our area. They had a lot of nice stuff, but I quickly found out that you don’t always save as much money at a consignment shop as you think you do! Oh, I got some good deals –a very nice changing table for [...]

So today I was told to Visit Shop Shield® at their website, stopshield.net. What is Stop Shield, you may be asking. Well, I’m asking the same thing! Apparently, Stop Shield offers comprehensive protection against fraud and identity theft, but is exclusively designed to protect individuals who are making online purchases.
Stop Shield is a new, [...]

In case you haven’t noticed, I do a lot of shopping. Just about all of my product and service reviews come from the purchases of services and reviews that I have made myself. And I use a credit card or our personal checking account to make most of those purchases. With my credit card number [...]

My three year old, Alyssa, has been asking repeatedly about going to the beach. I promised I’d take her this summer, and I will. The only issue is that the beach isn’t just around the corner, and I would want to make arrangements to stay one or two nights, since the drive would be at [...]

When I first heard of AbsoluteCalm, I immediately thought of my cat, Blueboy, and how I had to treat him with CalmCat! in order to get him to stop being so anti-social, aggressive, scared, and to save our furniture from his repeated incidents of urinating on it.

But AbsoluteCalm isn’t for cats, or even dogs. AbsoluteCalm [...]

I just watched the unrated trailer for the movie Frontier(s). For those interested, it has been out in select theaters since May 9th. I must admit, I am definitely not interested. Maybe it’s my own wussified personality, the fact that my mom let me watch Predator when I was four, or that The Blair Witch [...]

It’s vacation time! Spring is here and nearly finished, and summer is just around the corner. A lot of people are hitting up touristy stores, websites and magazines to look for Chicago things to do, and ideas for other cities throughout the US. I know that my husband and I are throwing around ideas [...]