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1. Americans spend $36,000,000 at Wal-Mart every hour of every day.
2. This works out to $20,928 every minute!
3. Wal-Mart will sell more from January 1 to St. Patrick’s Day(March 17th) than Target sells all year.
4. Wal-Mart is bigger than Home Depot + Kroger +Target + Sears + Costco+ K-Mart combined…
5. Wal-Mart employs 1.6 million people, is the world’s largest private employer, and most speak English.
6. Wal-Mart is the largest company in the history of the world.
7. Wal-Mart now sells more food than Kroger and Safeway combined, and keep in mind they did this in only fifteen years.
8. During this same period, 31 big supermarket chains sought bankruptcy.
9. Wal-Mart now sells more food than any other store in the world.
10. Wal-Mart has approx. 3,900 stores in the USA of which 2,906 are Super Centers; this is 1,000 more than it had five years ago…
11. This year 7.2 billion different purchasing experiences will occur at Wal-Mart stores. (Earth’s population is approximately 6.5 Billion.)
12. 12. 90% of all Americans live within fifteen miles of a Wal-Mart.
13. Wal-Mart has gross sales that total more than the total revenue of all the countries in the world, except 6.

You may think that I am complaining, but I am really laying the ground work for suggesting that MAYBE we should hire the guys who run Wal-Mart to fix the economy. Read the rest of this entry

I just completed the redecoration of my living room. My nephew had plastered the walls and put a texture above the chair rail and made the wall smooth below it. I wanted my place to have the same Tuscany look as my sister’s place, The Grand Loft.

I first painted the walls a cream color then used a tobacco colored faux paint on the area above the chair rail. Then I used a Gel Stain, Mahogany 605, for all the wood work. The Gel Stain is made by MINWAX. This product is amazing and very easy to use.

I mounted both my bikes on the wall, the Trek on the North wall and the Specialized Transition on the West wall. I used mounting brackets I purchased from Home Depot. I think they were less than $6 a piece.

Since John Brown is one of the people I admire and I like the John Brown song I used a video I found on youtube.com as the background music for my video. I show part of the John Brown video in the beginning of my video and then I end with a few seconds of the video. You can see the complete video and several more on the website, johnbrownjamboree.com.

Well, I hope you enjoy both videos, mine and the one on John Brown.

Everyday we have the opportunity to see hundreds of blogs (assuming we have the time). Occasionally one will stand out, head and shoulders above the rest. A blog that warms your heart.

I found that blog in PartyBluPrints Blog. The owners of the blog are Dawn Sandomeno and and if you click here you can folllow Dawn’s tweets.

Dawn and Elizabeth’s mission is to help you plan, prepare and throw parties. And if I may, I would like to quote from their blog, “we discovered what we were looking for… a fresh, simple, fun and exciting way to entertain in our homes in a relaxed manner.”

Ok, now why do I like their blog? Let’s start with the header, it’s a refreshing piece of art (I need to work on mine). Here take a look at it.

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It was clever to drop the “e” in blue and then write the blog name, PARTYBLUPRINTS as one word, that trains your brain to recognize their web address, which is always written as one word. The subtle differences helps one remember.

Now they took something that normally is very large, the city scape, reduce it and contrast it with the watermelon which in real life is small. You can see the header gives you a sense of their creative mind at work. I don’t know if they created the header or not, but they are using it and that indicates they have a very creative flair. When you write the word for a color then make the word that color your mind will remember the word, clever.

I am going to keep this review short, because I want you to enjoy PARTYBLUPRINTS for yourself.

However, I do want to share a couple more things from PARTYBLUPRINTS . Seeing this image made me want to click on it.

This is a beautiful piece of artwork and it depicts the quality of their work. Their blog is filled with this sort of creative artwork and the information they provides matches the artwork in value and creativity. Here is an example.

Make your party easy as A, B, C!

• Keep Your Guests Comfortable & Clean:

A. Banish the bugs – 1 hour before guests arrive, light bug bomb and citronella candles.
Set out individual bug spray wipes and/or spray for guests’ convenient use.

B. It’s a picnic, so while you’re “roughing” it, offer your guests the opportunity to “wash
up” with wipes and/or hand sanitizer – a must have at a picnic!

C. Give your guests a place to kick back: Provide plenty of clean and comfortable seating
(chairs, blankets, benches, etc.) For the kids: arrange 1 or 2 blankets strictly for
eating (when they’re done or if they spill, simply fold them up and wash them later.
Reserve one blanket for the kids to play and relax after eating. For more.

The other thing I want you to check out is their menu page, you are going to enjoy all the recipes..

In summary, their artwork is beautiful, the layout is easy to follow, there’s a wealth of knowledge and their blog is singularly focused on planning, preparing and throwing parties. PARTYBLUPRINTS is a blog worth your time.

Wishing you success,

Duane Spears








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