Somebody Has to Say It

Have you looked at a bar of Dial soap lately and felt cheated or ripped off? Recently I purchased two different packages of Dial bar soap in two different scents - Tropical Escape and Aloe Green Tea scent. I was not happy when I opened the packages. The bars are much smaller now. I understand times are tough and companies are cutting back, but it’s an insult to consumers to so blatantly give less product for the same price. We all know it’s being done - that companies are giving us less product for the same amount of money we paid before - but at least most companies aren’t making it as obvious as the makers of Dial soap! 

The Tropical Escape scent now has a big scooped out section on side of the bar and the Aloe & Green Tea scent is scooped out on both sides. It appears consumers are now getting 1/2 less the amount of product as before, but being charged the same amount of money - if not more money. Needless to say, I won’t be buying Dial bath soap any longer.

Let’s start a poll. Leave a comment and let me know if you’ve noticed the same thing with other brands of bar soap, or with other products?

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According to Valassis, the company who distributes Red Plum coupon inserts, they are going to stop putting the money saving coupons in newspapers. Papers from all over the country are going to be affected, and million of us who rely on coupons will suffer as well.

I don’t know about you, but I rely on coupons now more than ever. Without them, it would be harder than ever to buy groceries to feed my family. I also wouldn’t be able to get extra freebie food items to donate to charity organizations such as food pantries.

There is a website dedicated to this topic at http://www.bringbackthecoupons.com/. You can also see if your area newspaper is one that will stop carrying the coupons by looking at this publication.

Do you use coupons? How will this affect your family or spending habits?

Arby’s has a promotion going where you get one of their new Roast Burger’s free with the purchase of a drink. You’ll need to go to their website and print off a coupon. The free food promotion ends on different dates for different locations so be sure to check the expiration date on your coupon.

There are 3 different varities of the Arby’s Roast Burger. I chose the All American, which has thinly sliced beef on a bun with lettuce, tomato, pickles, onion, ketchup, mustard and special sauce. The “special sauce” has a BBQ flavor and the sandwich reminded me of an old-fashioned Burger King flame grilled whopper - when they first came out and still tasted good. I can’t stand Burger King anymore though. But … let’s get back to the Arby’s burger. It was surprised that is tasted so good. It could have used some cheese, but I was quite happy with it overall. It was so big I could barely eat all of it.

If I remember correctly, the price for the sandwich woudl have been about $3.50 if I had paid for it out of pocket. The small drink cost me $1.69 with tax. Not bad for a burger and drink! As for the nutritional facts of the sandwich, I’m not a dietician, but I would venture to guess that the calories and fat content are comparable to a regular roast beef sandwich. A regular roast beef sandwich at Arby’s has about 400 calories, 20 grams of fat (7 saturated), 1030 sodium, 36 carbs, & 40 cholesterol. This is just a “guess-timate” on my part though and I don’t claim to be a dietician or even claim this nutritional info is correct.

According to TMZ.com, Nadya Suleman has been offered a million dollars if she will sign up with Vivid Entertainment. Vivid is a porn star movie distributor and said that, along with the money, they will provide family medical and dental coverage is she will become a contract girl and star in multiple videos. There’s no word from Suleman as to whether she will take them up on their offer. Although from what I’ve read she could use the money! But who knew stretch marks and flappy skin could be so sexy?? Give me a break! What are your thoughts on this?

Sheyla Hershey has made her “infamous” by being listed is in the Guinness Book of World Records for having the largest breasts in the world. Her huge boobs didn’t come to her naturally though. It took nine breast implant surgeries to reach the record breaking 38kkk size! Sheyla is Brazilian and had to return to Brazil for her latest surgery. American doctors in her home state of Texas refused to give her more plastic surgery to enlarge her breasts any further than their previous 34fff size.

Just how large is too large when it comes to the size of a woman’s knockers? I guess American doctors think 34fff is the limit because of a risk of the implants exploding … but but Brazilian doctors didn’t hesitate to keep going.

Sheyla says she will gladly have more surgery and keep going to get bigger and bigger. She’s also had plastic surgery done on her lips, butt, and nose. I say “to each his own” and hope this woman isn’t putting her health at risk by having all these unnecessary cosmetic surgeries.

I am a birthmother and have been reunited with my daughter. We have had our ups and downs on the reunion rollercoaster, and have both learned a lot of things about the entire adoption process. Some of the things we discovered were (and still are) painful. The lies propogated by adoption agencies and child placement services are ugly, unfair, and do not help anyone. The truth DOES come out if the adoptee ever reunites with the birth family.

My daughter grew up knowing she was adopted and had a good life and loves her parents (and yes, her parents are the people who raised her). But I am no less her parent in a biological sense.

I think a lot of adoptive parents have an irrational fear that somehow if their child wants to find their birth family that they will somehow lose their child. To me, that seems like such an illogical way to think. Unless, of course, you have mistreated the child and they have had a miserable life … but I think in a case like that then you would “lose” the child anyway once they got old enough to fend for themselves.

In my daughter’s case, she was put under a tremendous amount of guilt by her adoptive family for even wanting to contact me and the rest of her birth family. That guilt led to a lot of stress for her over the course of our long journey. She still feels pressured by certain family members for wanting to be a part of her biological family. No matter how many times she tries to “prove” to them that she loves them and that they aren’t going to lose her, they still harbor insecurities and fear over her desire to love and share herself with two families.

There is a lot more to this story. Click here to read more! Also, feel free to leave a comment here about your feelings on this subject.

By now the whole world has probably heard of Nadya Suleman, the 33-year-old woman who gave birth to octuplets. She already has 6 kids and now has 8 more - for an insane total of 14 kids. I say it’s insane for multiple reasons.

She’s single, unemployed, living with her parents, and her other kids aren’t healthy. Why would she bring 8 more kids into the world when she can’t care for the ones she already has?

I feel sorry for the kids because they are the ones who will suffer because of their mother’s lack of ____ (you fill in the blank). It would be hard for a couple with good steady jobs to care for this many kids and pay the enormous doctor bills, food, diapers, etc etc etc. There is no possible way Nadya Suleman can do it on her own, even with the best of intentions. So guess who will foot the bill folks? Yep - WE WILL! She seriously needs counseling and evaluation for a possible mental condition.

Does this make me angry? Yes. BUT the people who are posting death threats to her make me just as angry. She needs help - mental help - not death threats.

A virgin spinster woman named Wang Guiying is 107 years old and has decided it’s finally time for her to get married. She was engaged once when she was young but broke it off out of fear. She grew up seeing women being mistreated, abused, and beaten and didn’t want to get married and end up getting the same kind of treatment.

She has now changed her conception of married life and wants to find her former fiance and marry him. She is also willing to consider another man for marriage if she finds her first love has passed away. She hopes to find someone close to her own age but realizes she may have to settle for a “younger man”. She does not want to be a burden to her family.

I hope she finds her man! Good luck Miss Guiying!

I just read a story on Reuters about some mountain hikers in the Swiss canton of
Appenzell-Innerrhoden Switzerland who were hiking in the nude. The densely populated area reports an increase in the number of naked hikers, claiming the act is mostly popular with German visitors.

Say what? There are a lot of things that I could see doing when naked, but hiking is definitely NOT one of those things. I don’t care if I was in the middle of nowhere, with no possible chance of being seen by others, the odds of harming a delicate or vital body part are just too great to hike without clothing (in my humble opinion). I mean, just think about it. A person could easily trip and fall and skin their “whoo-hoo” or get dirt up in their “boo-boo” if they are naked. At least clothing would provide a little protection if you fall down. Gee whiz! Then there is the issue of bug bites. I would think dangling and exposed body parts would be so much more attractive to mosquitoes, bees, wasps, snakes … I shudder to think about it.

To prevent future incidents, and protect the children in the area from “immoral habits of nudists”, authorities will start imposing a fine of 200 Swiss francs (about $170 US dollars).

What do you think? Is the fine fair? Would you ever hike in the nude?