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Kalamazoo Named One Of Best Places For “Cheapskates”
Earlier this week, Kiplinger's Magazine rated the "10 Best Cities for Cheapskates." While that may sound bad initially, what they're really saying is that these cities are places where your dollar stretches further; they looked for low costs of living and high income relative to cost and places with lots of free (or inexpensive) things to do.
One of the "10 Best" is right down 131 in Kalamazoo! They ranked #4 in this survey and here's what Kiplinger's had to say...
youtube Two Penguins Stuck At A Crossroads, Funny Video
2 weeks ago
Penguins are funny little creatures to begin with, aren't they? They look formal, they walk funny, they have long cute beaks, what's not to love! Well, these two little penguins find themselves in a dilemma
Photo by Chris Clark-Pool/Getty Images) Experience Grand Rapids Holding Photo Contest
2 weeks ago
It's time to take those 'city-scape' photo's of Grand Rapids and, maybe, win some prises.
Experience Grand Rapids is celebrating National Travel & Tourism Week with a community-wide Instagram photo contest, and the person who best captures the city's beauty, excitement and local flavor in a single photo will win a prize package valued at $300.
* One night stay in the Courtyard by Marriott Grand Rapids - Downtown
* Two tickets to Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park, Gerald R. Ford Museum, Grand Rapids Art Museum, Grand Rapids Children's Museum, Grand Rapids Public Museum, John Ball Zoo, and Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts, and,
* One Polaroid wireless printer
flickr/K's GLIMPSES Twin Babies and Their Pacifier War (Video)
2 weeks ago
Here is a must see video. Identical twins, Lillian and Diana Bajorek, wage war over a single pacifier by forcibly removing it from each others mouths.
Babies are undeniably cute, but, as we all know, and this video shows, sharing just isn’t part of their vocabulary yet.
flicker.com/neilsfan Legendary Neil Sedaka Talks To Kim Carson About His New Book
2 weeks ago
If you missed Kim Carson's interview with Neil Sedaka...
Breaking Up Is Hard To Do, Laughter In The Rain, Bad Blood, my favorite Love Will Keep Us Together and Lonely Night by the Captain and Tenille, and Clay Aiken's Solitaire, all songs written by Neil Sedaka.
Photo by Stephen Lovekin/Getty Images Could The Pamella Roland Collection Design Angelina Jolie’s Wedding Dress?
2 weeks ago
I was on mLive.com this morning checking out some of the fun news and came across an article that was written by John Gonzalez. It got me thinking...
By now you know I am a huge fan of Pamella DeVos' /The Pamella Rolland Collection. I have said those words more than once, one day when I get rich and famous I will be wearing one of her designs.
James Scott S/flickr.com Struggling Waitress Gets To Keep Her $12,000 Tip
2 weeks ago
Why and how police got involved in this I will never understand! But police in Minnesota will be returning a $12,000 tip she received. She must have provided some good service!
Stacy Knutson, a server at the Fryn' Pan Restaurant in Moorhead, received the $12,000 tip back in November 2011. The customer left the takeout box with the cash inside and when Knutson followed the customer out to parking lot and tried to give her back the box but the woman told her to keep it. When Knutson opened it, she found $12,000 in cash.
flickr The Prom Dress To Beat All Prom Dresses
2 weeks ago
A week or so ago I posted a blog about Free Prom Dresses. They had been donated and would be loaned out, free. With all of the events girls have to attend in High School, the cost of dresses, you can't wear the same one twice, really adds up.
However, there is another way to keep your costs low. You could make your own.
Rick DeVos Announces “Start Garden” Winners
A few weeks ago on The River, we were talking about "START GARDEN" around Grand Rapids. It's a Rick DeVos project where entrepreneur ideas compete for $5,000 investments
Earlier this week, the first wi
Tiger Attempts To Eat Human Baby (Through The Glass)
If you haven't seen this video floating around online, it's entertaining, intriguing and disturbing all at the same time.
A family is at the Portland, Oregon, Zoo with their young son, who is dressed in black and white stripes
A Doggie Wedding – Good Idea or Bad Idea?
Okay, all of us here are dog lovers; in fact, my wife and I consider our two dogs our "children." That said, even I think this is overboard.
Two dog owners threw a "wedding" for their dogs. The bride "Scruffy" and the groom "Snickers" were married in a ceremony that probably cost more than some very bare-bones (no pun intended) weddings for people
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