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When they left, Chris had a sticker stuck to the back of his Droid, and his girlfriend was told to stop wearing makeup because makeup ruins the enV Touch. More »
—>The usefulness of Best Buy's Geek Squad depends entirely on the competence of the employee you get when you go in for help, and unfortunately Scott landed one of the lazier ones. Here's his sales pitch to Scott over a laptop that wouldn't start: "It's going to take at least 10 minutes for me to get the multimeter or another adapter. It's going to be a problem inside the computer, let's just send it in." More »
—>Our country's postal employees have a well-deserved day off today. However, let this New York mail carrier's mistake serve as a lesson for the Internet age: don't do anything stupid in public, ever, because someone will probably be surreptitiously filming you. More »
—> If you are like us, you have tried to make an envelope because you were out of envelopes but you wanted to mail something and the mailbox was much closer than the store. More »
We're in a cleaning/organizing mood today, so we thought we'd link this story from Real Simple. It has lists of household chores broken down by when you should do them, day, week, season. Their lists are ok, we guess. (Launder the dust ruffle? Do we have one of those?) Anyway, it's a helpful reference to maybe print out and give to the lazier members of the household. You know who you are. —MEGHANN MARCO More »
—>Relatives coming over and no time to polish the silver? Instructables has a cheap, easy way to polish silver without buying silver polish. Simply add baking soda and a bit of aluminum foil to a pot of water, add the silver you want to polish and boil away. —MEGHANN MARCO More »
—>Are you a lazy shopper? Well, instead of just buying someone another crappy gift card at the last minute, why not make them something.? We know what you're saying, "F-you, this isn't Martha Stewart. This is the Consumerist." Yeah, but people really like it when you make them something! Really! It's not just something your mom made up. Domino has some suggestions for last minute DIY gifts, and some of them are pretty cool. Like infused olive oil. Brilliant and tasty, just add bread. What last minute DIY gifts do you like to give? We like to make chocolate chip cookies. Everyone loves chocolate chip cookies! Yay!—MEGHANN MARCO More »
—>We hate buying wrapping paper. Hate. We even hate saving those gift bags, although that's a nice way to save money and be lazy at the same time. DIY site Curbly has a list of ideas, some of which will save you money (newspaper) and some that won't (aluminum foil). More »
