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Where the heck are those keys? Now you know
By Times Staff, Wires
Published October 13, 2007
Can't find your keys, glasses, cell phone and so on when you're ready to walk out the door? This organizer hangs over a doorknob and provides a couple of pockets for odds and ends, a clip for your keys, and a loop on the back for letters and papers. It's $9.96 at Staples. Home flippers not allowed here What happens when you sell too many homes to investors who want to flip them for a quick profit? Communities of completed homes with no residents, and sales competition that undercuts the builder. Compass Communities, which is building a townhome community called Largo Preserve in North Port, has a policy: No flips for two years. The developer has first right of refusal to buy the home back at the original price within the first two years. Pregnant? Color your baby 'green' This isn't a Halloween joke: Raising Baby Green, by Alan Greene, M.D. (Jossey-Bass, $16.95). Here's advice on making "green," healthy, environmentally responsible choices during pregnancy, childbirth and baby care. What's the greenest diaper choice? What kind of lotions and powders? It's all here. Picture-perfect on Halloween night Shutterfly, the Web site that offers lots of things to do with your digital photographs (invitations, greeting cards, books, calendars, mugs), offers these tips for photographs that will be more treat than trick. - Create a "pose station" at your party so you're sure to photograph everyone.
- Keep the camera handy after the party when the costume is off; that may yield the most spontaneous images.
- Take photos inside before the kids go trick-or-treating. More ideas: www.shutterfly.com. Scare up a unique treat container More ideas for the horror holiday, these from Hallmark magazine: Fill clear glass jars with appropriate candy - eyeballs, snakelike raspberry twizzlers, gummy worms. For a treat container, spray-paint a new paint can in some eye-catching color. Glue on nuts, bolts and screws to make strange faces. Hot-glue a piece of fake fur to the rim.
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