I went to David’s Bridal expecting to have a fun and exciting afternoon searching for my dream wedding dress. What I got was a complete nightmare. They are an embarrassment to the industry. I was greeted promptly when I arrived for my 2:00pm appointment. Small …

My mother had a very odd collection. She liked to collect clocks. Mostly miniature clocks. She took me with her shopping for clocks several times. She shopped at a place called Northside Clocks in Manchester.
When I went with her for the first time to shop for miniature …

I’ve just recently got into the habit of keeping a journal, and it wasn’t until I was in need of one–didn’t want to keep a blog–when I discovered Jenni Bick Bookbinding: A company that specializes in journals.
When I arrived to the website, I was glad that it had a …

When I moved to my new apartment, I wanted to pay a single company for my phone, cable and internet. My parents had Verizon, but I found a better deal with Optimum. Along with the Optimum triple play, I get IO Digital Cable.
I can honestly say that IO …

This is a little LITTLE hair salon in Brooklyn NY. It is so tiny, that there is only room for 2 or 3 salon chairs, and a tiny room with one shampoo bowl. I found it by accident while exploring the city and decided to call them the next …

Recently, I planned to renovate the kitchen cabinets in my newly bought home. So in my search for contractors, I happened to sign an agreement with home design base for kitchen renovation. I personally like the way the did the entire job. Everything from quotation to …

Recently I adopted two Kitties from a family friend and joyfully went to my local PETCO store to purchase everything necessary to care for my new bundles of energy. I found my experience with PETCO staff to be frustrating and difficult. As I perused the cat isles, …

Auction houses can definitely be exciting places, who knows what you might find! Bamford`s have an auction house in Matlock and another in Derby. They hold Victorian, Edwardian and General sales and also Fine Art Sales.
The Victorian, Edwardian and General sales usually have around 1000 lots to go `Under …

For the first time ever, I placed an order at walmart.com. I’m not really a big Walmart shopper, but a friend had given me a gift card for there, so the time was right.
I found the site to be easy to use. I was able to look …

As much as I hate to say it , most of us have had to bail someone out of jail at one point or another in our lives. My first experience with having to bail someone out happened when apparently my son got a little too drunk for his …

For our business we would send out about two hundred flyers to clients. I would design the flyer in Microsoft Word, print it on the laser printer in our office, fold each flyer, add a mailing label and postage, and then take the mailing to the post office. The …

I saw an ad about two months ago on Craigslist asking for people in my area to do voice recordings for a telecommunications company. The gig paid one hundred dollars and had piqued my interest so I responded to the ad. I recieved an email from the company representative …

Most small towns have a convenience store, perhaps a hardware store, or something where folks can get what they need for hunting, gardening, food, or whatever they need during a quick stop. Such is the case with Henning Hardware, the hardware store in the middle of downtown Henning, …

I had a plumbing emergency situation about 3 months ago. The problem had to do with a hot water heater bursting. To make matters worse, this happened around 2:00 in the morning on a Sunday. The sound of it bursting woke us up and the unit is out in …

Three years ago I was working for a big restaurant chain as a manager and had quite a good income. I love working on my house and doing gardening so I decided it was finally time to get a credit card for one of the home improvement centers. …

As a family we love going out for a pizza or ordering a pizza to be delivered and one company that we order from is called Roadrunner Pizza. This company are based on St Aldate Street in Gloucester.
There is a great choice of food on their menu from …

I recently moved. I could not keep my Verizon home phone service. Bummer! Well I hooked up with Embarq. I am so happy with the service, Embarq rules! I was originally not going to have a home phone installed to save money. I have a cell phone. It works …

After moving to Alabama recently and using the Alabama Power Company, I must say that I have been in for a shock. Despite claims to be in the lower price range (compared with other states’ power companies) I have found my power bill being at an outrageous amount almost …

This place has horrible customer service, well, if one can call that. They have this one lady running the place and she’s absolutely one of the rudest people I’ve ever dealt with. The place itself is ok, it’s clean for a coin laundry but prices are not much better …

Sometimes I visit sports bars with my boyfriend when I get in the mood to play a bit of pool. But sometimes we just don’t know where to go to enjoy a nice game when we are in certain areas of the country. Well we were in the Curepe …

I have been using the Picture Me Studio in the Rockwall Wal-Mart for about three years now and even though people seem to look down on it because it is inside of Wal-Mart, I still continue to go because they are the best priced and the pictures have turned …

Off of US 1 in Rockledge is a little house, right after the citrus place. This is Mrs. Mangos, or as I call it, Mama Mangos. I used to go all the time with my best friend. It is a business in a house. It has been …

There is one place in my small town where a smoker can find cigarettes at a bargain, and that is at Mapco Express, located at 1001 North Locust Avenue here in Lawrenceburg, Tennessee. Since I am a penny pincher, I smoke an off-brand cigarette called Sonoma. They are much …

EatOutIn.com offers Austinites a way to get good food from their favorite restaurants without having to dine in or take out. EatOutIn.com is a website where you order online, pay and then wait for your food to show up. I’ve used EatOutIn when I’m working late and don’t want …

I’ve done business with Tiger Direct many times, usually to buy individual computer components to replace dead parts or upgrade part of my computer. It had been a couple of years since my last order with Tiger, but I felt pretty confident about their products. Their 30-day return policy …

Shoup Liquors is a medium sized local store which has nice collection of liquors and I have found this store as a very useful resource even in late nights. The people there are always nice and it is a pleasant experience shopping bottles from there. The limitations of this …

Ever since I been growing up I have been into arcade games. The malls here in my country don’t all have arcade places to go to but there is an arcade place by the name of Galactica which has three separate branches at different locations all over the country. …

Ryans Associates is an accounting firm located in Feeding Hills, Mass. I needed an accountant and saw an ad in the paper for this place. Worst mistake of my life. The office is next door to a laundromat and all you can smell is soap. The …

I had the opportunity to work with Randstad in Vancouver when times were really tough. I had been working outside of the country for a couple of years, and had just moved back. Word on the street was that hiring was at a low. I had …

Most post offices I have been too have been pretty much a god experience but I have been to the Holyoke post office on more than one occasion and every time I went there I just couldn’t wait to get out of there because I often left this place …

Recently we had a door of ours damaged during a storm. We went to all of the usual places to check out the doors they offered. All of them were overpriced and really ugly designs. Finally, one of our friends suggested we try Manchester Building Supply Inc. I …

My parents used the services of Hurlock Roofing in Wilmington, Delaware to put on a completely new roof and add two skylights onto that same roof. Because I was there helping while the work was being done, I must say that I will be hiring Hurlock if I …

I love the service at Master Cuts. It was only my second cut there, and now I plan on getting my hair cut at Master Cuts every time I’m in need of a trim.
Service was excellent. The first time I went in, I got a coupon for a half …

When we first moved into our new house, our roof wasn’t in the best of shape. We had a few bad storms blow through our area, and every time we had a bad storm come through, we noticed that a shingle or two would come off the roof. …

I like collecting odd items and antiques. I like going into antique stores and looking for those little hidden jewels. Finding an item that is gorgeous and finding an item that is worth a little bit of money is a lot of fun and makes for a …

I avoid using solicitors if at all possible as they are notoriously expensive, but I did get Brown & Corbishley Solicitors to do the conveyancing on my house purchase last year and I was rather impressed with the way they dealt with it for me. Dealing with my …

I signed up for the “one month free trial” version of Netflix three months ago. With that comes one DVD sent in the mail and unlimited streaming video on pretty much any device with an internet connection. At first I was overjoyed at all the video content …

The Candy House Chocolate Factory is south of Joplin, Mo., where my family and I live, in the old Mill Town of Redings Mill, right on the creek. The Candy House itself is in rustic old stone tavern, and has been a fixture in our community for as long …

The Fair Oaks Farms Cheese Factory, located right off of I-65 in Fair Oaks, Indiana, is quite possibly the best agricultural/food service asset to Northwest Indiana. Fair Oaks Farms is owned and operated by a cooperation of local dairy families. What they have set-up in Fair Oaks, Indiana is …

In Logan Ohio, if you are looking to buy flowers you will have many options from Krogers floral department, to Wal-Marts floral department. Also there are many local flower shops. One of my favorites happens to be The Nature Nest flowers and gifts and more located on Main Street …

Unfortunately, where I live, I only have one choice in cable company and that’s Charter Communication. Overall, I won’t complain about the quality of what I get on television but I do have a lot of complaints about the company in general.
1. The selection of television stations is horrible …

I had a little printing work done at Quality Printing Company in Kanab, Utah. I had 2000 business cards printed up. I was pleased with the final product, which was done on heavy card stock. Other shops have given me a final product that is not sharp, and the …

My husband and I were married two years ago and we hired the Las Vegas Weddings 4 You Company to plan our wedding at the Valley of Fire Canyon in Las Vegas. This was a mistake. It was not a fiasco, but we were very disappointed about several …

My daughter recently took a few quilting classes in one of her summer camp programs. This was nice because she came home all enthusiastic about quilting and wanted to continue doing it at home in her spare time. I didn’t argue with it because I grew up quilting …

I ate possibly the best sandwich I have ever had in my life today. I was on Commercial Drive in Vancouver today walking around in the sunshine and looking at all the ethnically diverse shops and eating establishments, and caught a whiff of some mouth-watering aromas. La Grotta Del …

I have been looking for an honest and legitimate way to start and run my own successful business. My motivation? Well I wanted to make some extra money on the side to supplement my normal income. We could all use the extra money, you know. Russ Dalbey’s “Winning …

As a plus-size woman, it’s hard to find clothes that fit, fit well, and don’t look like giant tacky moo-moos. So, when I stumbled across Fashion Bug (which we didn’t have in the south where I used to live), I was pleased beyond description to discover a store with …

Almost every night on television, there are numerous ads for companies which offer to buy your used, unwanted, broken or outdated gold, diamonds and other jewelry. Many of them offer to send you a cheque immediately upon receiving your items, and promise to pay you a premium and fair …

This is a taxi company that I would have never used if the circumstances were up to me because their office is on the side of the road right off the express way and it was run down which did not give me the best initial impression of this …

I have been running a small home business for the past two years, selling wire-wrapped jewelry and other odds and ends. It’s been slow-going and I’m always trying to find ways to drum up business and get my name out there. At a craft show a little over a …