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tHERE are also coolers that you plug in to the car charger and they stay cold (do not leave them plugged in overnight they will drain the battery!) My dad takes his in to the hotel overnight -- i think they plug in to the wall as well

What cookbook is the Creamy One pot pasta in?

It is 9.5% where I used to live in Seattle, WA!

They get WAY more than an hour of training. I took the class one year. It was several hours a night for several weeks. You have to pass the test at the end of the class in order to work. And then, once you are working for them, you have to keep taking more classes every year to update your skill...

I have no doubt that turbotax, tax cut, etc -- all the electronic programs that do your taxes for you will hadnle it. We do our taxes ourselves -- download the forms off of the IRS website and just go through the 1040, handling each line as we come to it.

The first time we did our taxes, we left it out. It's new this year and we didn't even know about it. We decided to "check" our return by using an automatic program then looking at the differences. And was amazed to see $801 difference (they rounded elsewise differently than my husband did)...

If you do your own taxes, make sure that Schedule M is filled out and taken into account. if not, you could be leaving $800 ($400 if single) on the table!

Do you keep Pampered Chef in mind when deciding which snacks to make for Superbowl parties?

My mother was a H&R Block employee during tax time for about 15 years. (Even an enrolled agent the last few years of that) I took the classes and my husband's done it for a few years as well. These employee are VERY well educated. They even have to KEEP taking classes every year. But there...

I can see both sides of that one. if I saw such a list and everything on it was expensive (esp if they were out of my budget) I'd discount it immediately. After all, I can't afford it. Smaller items could be an "add on" to an existing order. Also, there would be skepticism of the sort of...

Honestly? This is what I have found. Both for our wedding shower, baby shower, and gift lists since. The People I know (all different age groups, all different regions of the country) want to go to a store and pick something out. By and large they don't want to order online. The gifts I have...

From another standpoint: Is the customer going to start thinking hos difficult this recipe is because you are using SO MANY DIFFERENT TOOLS, so there will be all that cleaning to do afterward? Could you demo some tools while you wait for it to cook perhaps? I was originally sold on the...

Those pitchers do NOT work well in our experience. Well, at least, not at this age. Because in order for it to work the child has to tilt their head back. If they don't, the water STILL gets in their eyes, it just goes around the pitcher to do so! What worked for me in the "water in eyes...

My dad is a travelling instructor and he says that he has learned not to ignore his bladder urges. God seems to protect him from crashes by getting him to have a restroom break. Too many times he has been leaving after said restroom break to see a crash scene right after the exit for him to...

Perhaps talk to your MIL about what you want her to say? I see that your son initiatied the conversation. That can be a very difficult situation when an adult doesn't want to tell the child something the adult believes to be a lie. Did your in-laws know you were playing Santa with the...