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Marie Kondo has a best-selling book about decluttering, organizing, and simplifying your life. She talks a lot about how we accumulate a lot of stuff in our lives and how it’s often extremely hard to let things go. The result is that over time, we accumulate a lot of items that don’t spark joy in…
I was watching TV the other night and a documentary called “Twin Sisters” was on. Twin Sisters is the story of two couples, one from a small, remote fishing town called Fresvik, Norway and one from California who are each looking to adopt a child from China. Each of the couples at different times go…
I’m a Gold member of the Starbucks Rewards program even though I don’t drink coffee. As a Gold member you receive – one free drink or food item for every 12 Stars Currently, Starbucks is offering a free drink for new Starbucks Rewards members through this promotional link. In return, Starbucks gives me 6 bonus…
The Telegraph in the UK is reporting that an adult tried to smuggle an 8 year old boy into Spain in a suitcase. The attempted smuggling was discovered when authorities put the suitcase through a scanner. The child’s father came across the border several hours later and was promptly arrested. Thousands of migrants each year…
Jason Chaffetz, Chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform,recently complained to the Transportation Security Administration about the long line at Salt Lake City International Airport. According to the Salt Lake City Tribune, Chaffetz witnessed passengers handing out $50 to other passengers in order to move up in line so they wouldn’t miss…
President Obama came to Salt Lake City last night and stayed at the Salt Lake City Sheraton. This was the first time he has visited Utah in his presidency and the focus of his visit was to announce some solar energy programs. He was here for less than 16 hours total. In order to add…
I’ve traveled to Sweden numerous times and I’m always struck by the automation and simplicity of their everyday lives but also in regards to their attention to detail and consistently improving things. Most of it, I think, is borne out of the fact that there are only 9,000,000 people that live in Sweden and therefore…
The main distraction on long flights used to be Skymall. Skymall opened up a whole new world of the possible – from hot dog bun toasters to rare autographs, I used to flip through the magazine wishing that I was extremely wealthy so that I could buy the Family Ties chess set. As technology has…
Expedia is offering a $25 off coupon by providing them with your cell phone number. They will text you a discount code which can be used for booking a hotel room with the Expedia app through March 31, 2015. You can get three $25 off coupons, though you must wait 24 hours per coupon request.…
Answer: Not this way. A man was arrested for trying to smuggle 94 iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus phones. With prices fetching over $2,000 for phones, there is certainly a financial benefit to trying to bring in phones without declaring them at customs. However, Chinese customs officials were tipped off when this man was…
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