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Tipping housekeepers is not just a "Dis thing". This may be the first place some Disers have heard about the practice, but it has been around for many years. As I mentioned in a previous post, in the 1960s I grew up in a rural area of upstate NY, and worked as a chambermaid to save for college...

When I was in high school back in the late 1960's I worked every summer as a chambermaid for a large motel. Most rooms left small tips for me, and believe me, I was thrilled to get them. This was in rural up-state NY, which is always a bit behind the times and people are very frugal with their...

My experience was the opposite. In both events I attended, he stayed on beyond the allotted time. In the first, at the convention center, he was reading people from all over the room. There were so many, that it took him close to 1/2 hr longer as they were time consuming. In the second time...

Saw him twice in 2 different venues here in RI several years ago. The first was in the Convention Center, and very crowded. The second was in a small conference rooom in one of our local hotels, with just a few hundred people. I didn't get read, but he seemed to be authentic to those others...

We have been happily marrried almost 30 yrs (this Sept), have 2 sons in their 20's, and have been going thru the process of down-sizing. Just want to make life a bit simpler and not have so much "stuff". It took a few years, but I finally made the decision last year to donate my wedding gown...

This will probab;y not be a popular reply, but altho we loved our DCL cruise (we did land and sea, also), we were exhausted by the time we did the cruise part. We also chose doing it this way originally as we weren't certain how we would like cruising. Well, we found out we loved it, and our...

In our area they are one of the "Savers Stores" (thrift) , just like Big Sisters. The Savers in No Attleboro, MA has the large Epilepsy Foundation sign in front and the donation paperwork for your taxes also has their logo.

A family in our pediatric practice several years ago left their dryer on one night, and all went to bed. Woke to fire from dryer. All 4 apparently got out, but didn't have a gathering point outside, and mother thought one son was still in the house and ran back to find him. That son also ran...

Summer in Newport can be quite expensive, if that is when you are thinking of traveling. It is a beautiful place to visit, but you can stay in other towns nearby and save some $. Many familes rent a beach house in Narragansett for a week or two - you'll find a load of choices if you Google...

ITA!! It's not that we don't get enough traffic, as we get people all day. It's the people who come to them these days that are the problem! We used to have a yard sale once a year, when the kids were growing up, in the 1990's. I would set up tables in our garage a few weeks in advance, then...

For those of you who coupon, keep your coupon book in your trunk. You never know when you may unexpectedly be passing a store you need/have a coupon for an item in. For me, that is particuarly Bed, Bath & Beyond. I keep their coupons handy so when I pass by, I can run in and pick up our keurig...

go to bradsdeals.com They frequently have subscriptions to popular mags for $4.00/year, up to a 4 year sub. I recently got Reader's Digets, Better Homes & Garden, Rachel Rays magazine and Weight watchers magazine for $4 each and got 4 yr subscriptions to each one!

Done! Good luck!

We use the softpaws on both of our kitties and they are wonderful! Our cats are 2 yrs old and we just started to use them, as we had bought some new furniture. Our vet had told me about them. I went to the website and watched the video of how they are applied. Once they arrived, I clipped...

Make sure you complete the warantee info. Ours died after almost 2 yrs, I called them and they sent a free replacement. I heard of them doing that for others, too. Once I got the replacement, I had to take the little cup holder out of the original to return to them. Not a problem at all and they...

Brian Wilson was one of the Beach Boys.

Don't need to save your receipt. Just make sure you register the Keurig. Mine broke after almost two years, I called them, they looked me up from my registration of the machine, and they walked me thru a few processes, and then said it was not fixable and they would ship out a new one - free...

One word - Tile. This happened to us last year also, (been in this house since 1986 and never any issue with water until then, when our ground was also so saturated that the water came up thru the concrete, soaking the rug) and I asked about the plank laminate. All the flooring places told us...

We saw it at the Dunk 2 yrs ago, and it was awesome! They even had "snow" coming down on the audience during one of the numbers. They went, if I remember correctly, for a full 3 hrs, without a break! then the same group goes on for the second show an hr later. I don't know how they do it - they...

We are 2 adults, and will be celebrating our 29th wedding anniversary (sans kids!!). If anyone has an Illuminations cruise booked for the eve of Mon, Oct 03 and needs 2 more persons, we promise to behave!! :rotfl: