On September 18, I ordered a 24-pack of strawberry SoyJoy bars. Amazon shipped the package on September 19. The package arrived on-schedule on September 23. M y order arrived at about 3 p.m., delivered via standard USPS with tracking; the outer carton showed no damage...
Soy is widely considered to be one of the world's healthiest foods. Soy comes from soybeans--a crop indigenous to East Asia--and is the key ingredient in soy sauce and tofu. The people of Japan consume more soy than anyone else in the world; in fact, the the...
In 2006, I bought a 2.2 cubic foot Panasonic microwave oven: model NN-T995SF from Best Buy. The microwave cost me $299, which I thought seemed kind of expensive at the time. However, I bought it anyway--for three main reasons: at 1250 watts, it was one of the...
Last weekend, a hurricane hit our town--literally. So my son and I were stuck inside the house pretty much all weekend. I had been thinking about giving Netflix a try for a while--and since the weather made it less than pleasant to leave the house, I decided this...
Since I first got eyeglasses more than a dozen years ago, I had regular eye exams--if not every year, then at least every other one. But today was the first time I experienced the portion of the eye exam involving pupil dilation. Pupil dilation is one method eye...
I used to have a rule for my family when it came to paid online games: we didn't do them, even if they were offered through a well-known service like Playstation Plus. From my perspective, the games were expensive enough--not to mention the cost of the system--and it...
The Kenmore Elite Refrigerator I currently own is barely a year old. Having personally learned how expensive repairs and replacement refrigerators can be, I had purchased the extended warranty on the refrigerator--and this week, I had to make my first call into Sears...
I bought my eyeglasses at J.C. Penny last summer. And for the first time, I decided to go for a drill-mount frame--the kind of glasses that give no physical support to the lenses other than a think plastic wire the edge. Drill mounts--called rimless by some--are...
For more than a decade, I had a Rival slow cooker--a model I picked up at Target. It's equivalent online at Amazon now will run you around $45, so it was affordable, and I knew the brand name. However, I kept having the same problem with it: after a few months, the...