Bountiful Basket Food Co-op our 2nd visit was BETTER

http://bountifulbaskets.org/

Oh jeez, it was flipping cold to be trucking out at 6am in the morning. BUT WORTH IT. The picture is after 20 minutes of running the car, with still frost/ice on the windshield. BRRRR. And my poor wife who refused to buy a winter jacket, really suffered, but didn't complain. She loves adventures.

So, last week we missed the baskets, because we were late at buying on line. So this week we were excited to be heading back. When we got there, there was a line of folks waiting and like us, they were cold, but new they were doing a good deed.

We spokes to a lot of the members there, to see how long they've been going to the Co-op. We were amazed, that a bulk of them were pretty new at this. My wife, went through the line asking questions "how did you hear about the co-op?" and 80% said through a friend. Friends are the greatest.

                        RESULTS for us this week was beyond awesome!!

                                 We were about 15th in line. And so this is the basket I choose.

We walked out of their with smiles on our faces. Our food shopping is done for the week - we spent a total of $29.00 for our fruit/veggies for the week.

~Red potatoes
~HUGE White potatoes
~3 bundles of asparagus
~Bundle of broccoli
~Bundle of cauliflower
~Onions
~Butter lettuce
~Radishes
~Cucumber
~Rosemary (FRESH)
~an Herb we have no clue what it is????
~Celery
~Avocados
~Lemons
~Grape fruits
~Pineapple
~Banana
~Watermelon
~Tangerines
~Oranges

So yes, we did GREAT - and  I can't thank my wife enough for finding this for us. I also wish to thank everyone for talking to my wife and wanting to get to know us. Figures, we have 1 week left here and we find all the nice people at the tail end. I have to laugh, because one gentleman says "your wife has the engery of 15 women I know" - she sure does, always trying to make people laugh and such.

Get onto the site and locate the nearest Bountiful Baskets. And if they don't have one near you - get one started. They have all the details on the site. It's about time, we find people helping people and working together. It's a great way to support your town/city and even cooler to meet your neighbors.


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RV road trip checklist for us

Our Food List: We keep always 2 weeks worth of dry goods

·         Baking soda, baking powder,

·         Cooking/Olive Oil (Virgin)

·         Peanut butter, jam, syrup

·         Coffee, tea, creamer

·         Nuts

·         Dried Fruit

·         Tuna

·         Oatmeal

·         Popcorn

·         TONS TONS of Spices

We eat fresh food – it’s the only way to staying healthier in this life style

 

Our Comfy tools List

·         Axe

·         Portable Propane Gas Grill (Webber grill – LOVE IT)

·         Cooking utensils

·         Pot, pan, griddle

·         Coffee pot

·         Firewood (we gather it by hand at camp location)

·         Firestarter, fat sticks

·         Long handled lighter, matches

·         Other campfire tools (bucket, shovel – IT’S THE LAW)

·         Oven mitts, pot holders (we make our own)

·         Plates, bowls, glasses, mugs, go cups

·         Knives, forks, spoons

·         Knife, knife sharpener (or self sharpening – use the bottom of a coffee cupto sharpen knives)

·         Mixing bowl

·         Bottle/can opener, corkscrew

·         Cooler

·         Timer

·         Plastic containers, zip lock bags (tons of those)

·         Foil, plastic wrap, wax paper

·         Napkins, paper towels

·         Can and bottle cozies (we make our own)

 

Our Cleaning check list:

·         Large and small garbage bags

·         Dish cloth, towels, scrub pad (we make these ourselves)

·         Plastic washing bin (collapsible)

·         Laundry soap (Tide)

·         shampoo, dish soap, (we double buy dish soap Dawn)

·         Cleaning solution (we use vinegar a lot and baking soda)

·         Hand sanitizer, hand wipes (baby wipes wow when a shower isn’t available is a life saver)

·         Tissues (hankies a money and eco saver)

·         Short handled mop/bucket (we hand wash our floors to have one less tool in the RV and we use a collapsible big Tupperware bowl) 

First Aid:

·         Kit box that contain all the important emergency items – we have 3 boxes and store in different location

·         Antibiotic cream (polysporin, neosporin)

·         Gas pills (don’t ask don’t tell

·         Ice packs

 

Life Bills Paid before long trip:

·         RV Trailer/Suburban Insurance

·         Business Inventory Insurance

·         Cell Phone (we pay 3 month advance) Straight Talk prepaid

·         Internet (most important for us) Verizon prepaid is what we use

·         Health insurance and on the road mobile checkup list (free is what we aim for when we can)

·         Gas Budgets/Fun Budget/RV Parks Budget and each night we park for free that budget money goes to our Fun Budget

·         Emergency Money

·         Goodsams/Memberships (RV, Costco, and such)

·         His/Her spare money

 

RV Related Tools:

·         Smoke Alarms/Fire Extinguisher     (Check your fire extinguisher/smoke alarms weekly just to be in the habit)

·         Cables for jumping

·         Wrenches (assorted)

·         Tape (Duck – leaks and such)

·         Screwdrivers (assorted)

·         Tow membership

·         Snow chains (however RVer should never be in the snow)

·         Flares/Cones

 

Everyone will have a different sort of checklist. This one works for us, and we like many RVers will learn as time goes on, improving and becoming more wiser while on the road. If you could of seen our list 4 years ago - you'd know we have!!

 

Drive careful and use common sense.... 

 

 

Mo Yuen Creations Review

http://www.etsy.com/shop/MoYuenCreations

Husbands, if you haven't in awhile, do something nice for your wife. Life is so short, it's up to us to make them feel loved, secure, and plenty of forgiveness on our end for leaving those darn socks on the floor. Trust me, when you come across this at 5am in the morning:

One tends to re-think things. This review has saved me for the moment. But first let me me thank Anna Mackenzie a world of thanks. For trusting my thoughts and for putting the perk back into my loving wife's eyes. All is right in the world again.

First, my wife is not big into jewelry. She's active in the outside world. BUT, remembering a talk we had a couple of months ago about getting some new clothing, accessories for date nights this summer, I thought DANG I am in.

So here we go:

To Get Your OWN PAIR

I choose purple because, well I do often go with my wife when she buying makeup and that's not very often. But purple is the color for green eye women and purple pulls off the job very well. Simple to the eye but wow an amazing DIFFERENT look for my wife. She doesn't do hoops. These are not cheap by any means, they are super quality metal (you can't bend them - well you can if you put all your force into them, but using them as they meant to be used, they are durable with top notch quality). What I liked about them, is that my wife is crafty and can add thing to the loops if she wants to.

Package came just as you see in the photo's... Cute, simple and reusable. Direction may seem funny for women but, if they are not use to wearing jewelry, then this is most welcomed.

We hit the road in about a month and these are packed away until summer. I scored big time!!

About Anna Mackenzie

Hi,

 

Opened on Jul 18, 2011

Just touching on to my first year here on Etsy and this little Fiji baby has learnt how to shop online, create Treasuries and met some wonderful wonderful people!

I take this opportunity to say THANK YOU to all who have visited my little shop and for giving me a chance to show you my craft!

I love shopping and trying out different shops.....and okay, I do have some favorites!
And I'm forever broke....

My current standing is 179 sales with 533 Feedback's (daughter reckons I have more dollars than sense/cents)....Oh well!!!

Please do browse in my little shop. Hope you will find something you like

 

What she is also about is this..... Super communication and EASY, EASY to work with. Talk about helping a helpless husband, its her supreme talent. So I am telling you husbands, go with a small business owner, you'll support a number of stay at home Moms, or folks who won't survive without that 2nd job.

                                         http://www.facebook.com/moyuencreations

 

We wish to thank http://www.etsy.com/shop/MoYuenCreations for letting us do this review. My thoughts are just that "MY THOUGHTS" - done through a mans vision and we welcome you to test me out.....

ScentSmith Studios Candle Review by Mountain Man George Reviews

ScentSmith Studios Candle Review by Mountain Man George Reviews

Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.

~ Hindu Prince Gautama Siddharta, the founder of Buddhism, 563-483 B.C

 

 

Upon opening the box, the first thing that strikes you, is the scent of the candle. This in conjunction with the professional manner in which the product is package makes for a very favorable first impression.

 

What your seeing me smell, is the product I am reviewing. Mandarin Cranberry. I am a guy and can't stand all that fufu stuff, any overpoweringly sweet smelling, so food smells are the best.

 

 

The Mandarin Cranberry is straight paraffin wax that measures approx 4" 1/2 H and slight 2" width. The value of the candle is $4.75 which you can purchase from their etsy store:

https://www.etsy.com/shop/ScentSmithStudios

 

or

even better their direct web site:

http://www.scentsmithstudios.com

 

The burn time various candle to candle but from our personal use of the candle it lasted us almost a week. The smell stayed from day one until the last burn. What is winning this store our best remarks and highest recommendation is the fact of NO SOOT. As RVers, this is the most important feature of any candle. Have you ever washed soot off? It takes a lot of arm strength and time invested.

 NO THANK YOU...

RV friendly product by far.

 

If any negatives were to be mentioned, it would be, when your through with the burn, there is a lot of wax left over. BUT this in and of itself, is not a bad thing, since the wax retains the great scent. We found that placing the wax in obscured place in a metal tin keeps the RV smelling as if it were on the first burn.

 

We place this tin on the stove (trick: when I heat water for our coffee, after it heats, I place the tin on the hot burner and WOW... Neighbors think we cook all the time. We add cloves and orange peels to add a wider smell and works GREAT)

 

Customer Service: Amy Smith is one of the kindest ladies we've ever had the honor of speaking to. She's believes in her products and it comes across loud and clear. She's open to helping everyone out. Fast and friendly service and truly follows-up to ensure a happy customer. Her stats on her etsy store are one to envy for such a newer store front.

  Opened on Nov 5, 2012 with 76 sales under her belt - TOP NOTCH. From what we understand her direct web sites does double of more in sales. So Amy is a busy women. Amy doesn't just do candles but but also, decorative items, bath and body products and other gift too.

 

So to close out our successful experience, we are offering a GIVEAWAY on one of her products...

 

 

 

We are doing a GIVEAWAY on the votive that was sent to us: Mango Palm Wax Votive

Fragrance is not a super strong one (overpowering) and is very pleasant to the nose. Made from palm wax, which is what causes the feathered, glittery look to the candle

 

 

Just leave a comment after reading this article and you are automatically entered (closes Jan 28th) -

We'd like to thank Amy and her two wonderful stores, for giving me the honor to make my own opinion of her featured product.
 www.ScentSmithStudios.com and https://www.etsy.com/shop/ScentSmithStudios