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Adding Some Function To Our Dining Room

Since our kitchen is so small, we don’t have room for a table to be able to eat in the actual kitchen area.  So, we eat all our meals at the dining room table.  Unless we are incredibly lazy and eat dinner over the kitchen sink, with the kids eating in the Learning Tower on the counter.  But that only happens a couple of times a week, so no big deal!! Now, this has been the arrangement since we moved into our house almost four years ago.  And it has been a fine arrangement, but there is always room for improvement!  We have a buffet in the dining room that was just housing everything that didn’t fit into the kitchen,...

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Adding Some Function To Our Dining Room

Since our kitchen is so small, we don’t have room for a table to be able to eat in the actual kitchen area.  So, we eat all our meals at the dining room table.  Unless we are incredibly lazy and eat dinner over the kitchen sink, with the kids eating in the Learning Tower on the counter.  But that only happens a couple of times a week, so no big deal!! Now, this has been the arrangement since we moved into our house almost four years ago.  And it has been a fine arrangement, but there is always room for improvement!  We have a buffet in the dining room that was just housing everything that didn’t fit into the kitchen,...

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The Daily Scoop: McDonald’s eco-friendly packaging 2025 deadline is not enough for all

Plus more news you can use today. The Golden arches has a slight conundrum on its hands. While McDonald’s made slow but steady changes to paper food containers for the Big Mac in 1990 (that was a big deal), plans are underway for its offerings to be wrapped in renewable or recycled packaging in the next two years, CNBC reported.  Yet, that’s not enough for some — even as McDonald’s is moving the needle on its 2025 goal — set in 2018 — because “activist shareholders are moving onto the next big target: pressing the fast-food giant for more focus on reusables,” according to the article. During an annual meeting with shareholders held this spring, McDonald’s agreed with As You...

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The Daily Scoop: McDonald’s eco-friendly packaging 2025 deadline is not enough for all

Plus more news you can use today. The Golden arches has a slight conundrum on its hands. While McDonald’s made slow but steady changes to paper food containers for the Big Mac in 1990 (that was a big deal), plans are underway for its offerings to be wrapped in renewable or recycled packaging in the next two years, CNBC reported.  Yet, that’s not enough for some — even as McDonald’s is moving the needle on its 2025 goal — set in 2018 — because “activist shareholders are moving onto the next big target: pressing the fast-food giant for more focus on reusables,” according to the article. During an annual meeting with shareholders held this spring, McDonald’s agreed with As You...

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12 Affordable Walmart Finds For Summer

The other day I went into Walmart to get some strawberries. And somewhere along the way I got distracted. Has that ever happened to you? You are just stopping by the store for a moment. You’re going to buy ice or hand soap or paper towels or ham or mascara. And then? You find yourself in the middle of aisle 11 with a cart full of stuff… ….and left without even getting what you came for? Please come sit by me. That is my life. I’m so easily distracted by the treasure hunt up and down the aisles (and don’t even get me started on the finds on the end caps) and before I know it my cart is full....

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