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Don’t you hate stains on clothes and carpets?

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Don’t you just hate it when someone spills red wine on your light coloured carpet? Or someone bumps into you and your wine or grape juice spills on your blouse. I get really frustrate when things spill on my clothes, furniture or carpets because I know how hard it is to remove the stains. Half the time I can’t remove it either and I’m left with a faded stain on the item that was damaged.

I just found a site that sells commercial grade stain remover. The site states “Our spot cleaners can tackle just about any job. Not only is carpet stain removal a breeze but our products will remove stains on couches, curtains, beds, you name it! Our commercial-grade stain removal products will do the job others can’t.” Ok that sounds good to me.

MetroGuardian sells a number of different products- some of which work on specific types of stains such as lipstick and ball point pen stains, or an item that removes scratch marks from hard wood floors. All of the items have fairly low prices so I’d say they’re certainly worth giving them a try. I even took a peek at their terms and conditions section and they will accept returns within 30 days of purchase, so I guess there’s nothing to lose by trying their stain removers.





Have you thought about investing in gold bullion?

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There’s gold in them thar vaults!

As I’m sure many of you know people have always purchased gold in the form of bullions as a way of investing their money in the hopes of getting a better return on their money when the value of gold increases.

Having been a jeweller in the past I have a tendency to watch the gold prices as they scroll by on the screen during the nightly newscast. When I was a jeweller in the late 80’s gold prices reached the highest that they’d ever been. Business was booming and people were purchasing all forms of gold as an investment. In the last 5 years the price of gold has steadily increased reaching, I believe, an all time high earlier this year.

If you’ve ever thought of investing money into gold bullion now might be a good time. A company called BullionVault.com has created a revolutionary new way for individuals to buy and sell gold bullion online. The gold bullion being traded is held in high security Brinks Vaults in international vaults – in London, New York or Switzerland. Clients using BullionVault can check on the value of their holdings daily because the company publishes the values daily on the site using anonymous aliases that are known only to the client his or herself.

Using the live Market order board at BullionVault you can buy or sell your gold holdings at real-time gold market prices. Apparently BullionVault.com has close to 2 tonnes of gold bullion in the vaults. There is a lot of valuable information on the site if you’d like to learn more about investing in gold bullion.

Illustrated name personalized gift

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I found a very interesting site for those of you who might have a young child or perhaps a friend who has just had a baby. The website is called Illustrate My Name and they create personalised baby gifts. One of my good friends in Vancouver just had a baby boy and I’m seriously thinking of getting her baby one of these very special personalized gifts.

Illustrate my name creates personalized illustrations for children’s names. The products they make would make lovely birthday gifts, Christening gifts, and new baby gifts.

How does it work? You can have the child’s name illustrated in a theme of your choosing. You could pick a princess, seaside adventure, traditional toys and more. Each personalized gift is prepared individually and includes the specified name illustrated in your chosen theme for each letter of the name. The meaning and Country of origin of the name statement can be added as well.

The final print can be mounted and framed, or shipped without a frame. All of the illustrations are signed by the artist. Items sold and shipped in the UK take between 4 to 7 days, while orders outside the UK take approximately 14 days.

So does that sound good? Well how would you like to get one of these personalized illustrations FREE? THIS IS FOR THE UK ONLY.

Illustrate my name is doing a promotion where they will give away a free piece of personalized illustrated name art – excluding the frame – to the first 100 bloggers who blog about the site in a positive way. If you decide to enter into this promo (must be in UK) you need to write a post about Illustrate my name that includes a link back to the site www.illustratemyname.com with one of these two anchor text lines- “Unique Baby Gift” or “Personalized Baby Gift”.

In your post you can tell others about this UK only promotion by writing a line in your post similar to this one – “Illustrate My Name is giving away 100 free personalized name art pictures to the first people that blog about the site and includes a link and the correct anchor text”. If you decide to blog about Illustrate My Name please send an email to chris(@)illustratemyname.com that includes your blog url, and the link to the specific post in which you wrote your post about the company. You should also include your address and the child’s name and theme that they you would like to have made up into a print should you be one of the first 100 bloggers to have written about Illustrate my Name.

My Store

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Did anyone notice my store yet? The link to it is at the top of the left sidebar.

It’s one of those AMAZON stores, and I filled the store with just about every product that Amazon carries.

I was hoping that perhaps, if some of my visitors already shop at Amazon if you might do some of your shopping through my Amazon store? I’ll get a small commission and you’ll be helping me earn a little bit of money- which I need since I’m not working due to my illness.

I’d really appreciate it if you would use my store if you are going to shop at Amazon anyway. Please, please please? You’ll get the products you want for a good price and you’ll be helping out a bloggin friend at the same time.

Thanks!

Chris’ hair is thinning

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Chris is going to be going to New Jersey sometime in the next few months to visit some long lost extended family. Kind of a family history family reunion type of trip I suppose.

I started look up some information about New Jersey for him- trying to find some things to do while he’s there and I came across a place that perhaps he should visit. LOL

It’s a place that does hair transplants New Jersey. Yep, Chris is starting to get thin hair up top. Well at the back of his crown. Maybe it’s time for some hair plugs?

Nah, I’m sure he wouldn’t go for it but I like to bug him every now and then. Just for kicks of course. I really don’t care one way or another if his hair is thinning in some areas.

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