Millions of paper and plastic shopping bags end up in landfills every year. Cities such as Santa Monica, Calif., and communities in San Francisco and Hawaii have already taken steps to ban shoppers from using plastic bags. New York City and several other cities are considering similar legislation to encourage people to use reusable tote bags when ...

Why are there so many birds? This started out as a spinoff of another post, and snowballed into something too big for my brain to comprehend. I've done geometry for the first time since the SATs. I've crunched numbers, multiplying and dividing. I've hunted through the website and called in favors from others. And what do you get out of it? ...

Travel back in time with promotional mini backpacks, Champion sweatshirts and wholesale polo shirts. I went through my angsty teen years in the 1990s. It was an era owned by Gap fashion, mainstream computing and grunge music. I donned flannels I found in the attic that used to belong to my grandfather and Gap corduroy pants from the 1970s ...

Like, ohmigosh. Who doesn't love that deliciously tacky decade full of spandex, big hair and over-the-top music videos? The 1980s were cool for me because I was still a kid, so the fashion mistakes were cute, not horrifying in later years. Even when I flip through family albums and see pictures of my kid mullet, I laugh, though I am slightly ...

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Here kitty kitty. Yay! I've finally done enough of these eco-friendly word hunts to link you right to the eco-friendly tag on this blog so you can figure out what's going on. Wahoo! I knew this week would be a good one. Moving on, this word hunt's featured term is 120G PET Recycled Plastic. That eco-friendly term appears in the description for ...

Well, it seems I've inspired an imitator. And imitation is the highest from of flattery, right? Ever since I started writing this blog, the helpdesk support specialist (and my good friend) Josh has taken an interest in it. Often when we're chatting, he'll say, ''Is there anything I can do to help?'' I always jokingly invite him to write a blog ...

Delicious and nutritious? Well ... organic and fantastic! My run-ins with coconuts are pretty few and far between. Impulsively, I purchased a whole coconut a few years ago to experiment with and maybe toast. Well, cracking a coconut is difficult. After fighting with the hairy little bugger, it finally split open and I was able to catch some of ...

Friday Fun at ADVANCE Custom Promotions. OK, OK, sometimes our enthusiasm's a little ... unbridled. A few days ago, while chatting with Lou, the custom promotions marketing manager, he mentioned that he has an entire drawer full of Grow Guy Grow Cups. Some are even Grow Girl Grow Cups. The conversation arose because of my own attempt at growing ...

And everywhere, people like Vicki rejoiced. My coworker Vicki's a little strange in many respects. She is the left-brain to my right-brain in the offices at ADVANCE Custom Promotions, and I've learned several odd facts about her in the months we've worked together. Her obsession with her food not touching her other food stands out. When ...