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14
May

All Occassion Gift Baskets

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This father’s day I wanted to get my husband something really special.  He has sacrificied and achieved so much this year so I wanted to show him my thanks for being such a great husband and father.  When searching ideas on the internet I found plenty of the typical gift ideas; razor, golf accessories, tools, electronics, nifty gadgets.  However, none of these things work for my husband.  He has a razor that he loves and won’t buy a new one until the current one dies.  He has no interests in sports, especially golf.  He has every tool under the sun already and if he doesn’t have it…there is a good reason why he doesn’t have it.  And as far as electronics, he isn’t interested in computers, cameras, cool TVs or DVDs, I bought him a PS2 a couple years back and he loved it, we played it all the time, and then we had a kid.  Try playing a video game with a 1 year old around…you just can’t.  We are actually amazed that our PS2 still works because of how many times our son has ran away with the controller and pulled the unit with him.  The gadgets are cool but often aren’t really worth the money.  The only thing I could think of was fishing stuff.  We moved to an area where my husband could really fish on a regular basis so I thought maybe giving him a day out fishing would be fun.  However, I wanted to give more than just alone time.  So I searched for fishing gift ideas and ended up coming across the coolest gift idea. A fishing themed gift basket!

I found the basket on unusualgiftbaskets.net. They have posts for gift basket ideas for everybody and many occassions.  After reading through the website I realized that gift baskets make really great gifts for every and any occasion. I always see gift baskets in stores at Christmas and thought that they were always over priced and not very well made. However, the baskets on unusualgiftbaskets.net look very well made and are priced accurately.  Unusualgiftbaskets.net also has tips on how to make your own gift basket at home if you need the help.  Unusualgiftbaskets.net promotes two particular online gift basket stores All About Gifts and Baskets and  Design It Yourself Gift Baskets. Both sites have a large variety of gift baskets that can gift basket for men, birthday gift basket for dadsuit any occasion and any person.  They are full of great items and the presentation of the gift baskets looks wonderful! 

After looking at these sites I got very excited about the products and will probably be buying a lot of gift baskets this year.  I even found some baskets I would love to receive myself.  I have ordered the fishing gift basket for my husband and am very excited about it.  I think it will be a great surprise for him this Father’s Day.  It is a wonderful Father’s Day gift idea and it wasn’t the only one that looked good!  There were other themed baskets that would suit most men, the common themes were golf, sports, casino/gambling, grilling/BBQ, fishing, motorcycle, spciy food, beer/wine, spices/sauces, and movie themed.  gift basket for fisherman, fishing gift basket

The basket I ordered is the basket pictured here.  It comes with a large wicker fishing creel basket with should strap, 3 oz Summer Sausage, Grained Mustard, Creamy Vegetable Dip, 4 oz Honey Roasted Peanuts, 2 oz. Cheddar Cheese Flavor Pretzel Dipping Sticks, You’re a Winner Sunkist Fruit Gems, Fish Bait Gummy Worms, Caramels, Fishing Cooler Cup, Fish Caller, 5×7 Fishing Photo Frame, Fisherman’s "The Big One" Ruler, and The Fisherman’s Guide to Life Book.  I purchased this basket from .  

Design It Yourself Gift Baskets has some great gift baskets as well.  Their site is really cool because you can customize every basket and even create your own gift basket from scratch!  For those that aren’t very creative or crafty this is great because you can choose everything from which basket to use to which gifts will go inside and then they put it together and ship it for you.  It is as simple as 1, 2, 3.  However, as far as the pre-made gift baskets All About Gifts and Baskets caught my attention more.  So depending on what I want I will be visitng one or the other and truly buying gift baskets for every occasion.

Good Luck shopping and have fun.  I did!

Mama Brown

 

 

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About the Author: There are plenty of unique and exciting themes around which you can create truly personal and thoughtful gift baskets. 

 

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22
Apr

Wireless Weather Stations

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Now that I live in the country, I don’t get weather reports for my immediate area.  I get the weather report for the closest big city which is about 30 minutes away.  So the weather report is almost always wrong and not by just a little bit.  They saylacross weather station, la crosse weather station the low will be 40 degrees.  I wake up to 26 degrees.  They said we would get about 2 inches of snow.  I got almost 8 inches.  These differences have really affected my day and my plans so I started searching for home weather stations.

Home weather stations allow a person to set up remotes around there home, based on what readings you want you may or may not have numerous remotes and you would need to read where the best placement is.  The remotes then send the information to a central monitor that you have placed in your home, some can be attached to the wall and some can just be placed on a counter or desk.  The monitor then tells you all the weather information right at your home.  Depending on how extensive of a system you get you can know just the temperature or you can know the air quality, wind speed and direction, humidity, etc.

Some of these weather stations are wired which means you will have to wiring things through your house, however, the more popular models are wireless.  Which is the best way to go in my opinion.  Wireless home weather stations are pretty decent looking and are not that expensive.  The price ranges based on what features you want from your weather station.  But those things aside I am just excited to actually know what the weather is at my home and not 30 minutes from me.  Since there are so many different kinds of weather stations it is best that you research the different features, brands, and prices before purchasing. 

Here is a great site that can help you learn what to look for when comparing: Wireless Weather Stations

Click here for a  wireless home weather station store 

Mama Brown

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31
Mar

Motorcycle GPS Systems

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Well my husband and I have always dreamed about going on a cross country motorcycle ride, or maybe just across a few states.  Anyway, I am not one that likes to get lost when you don’t have a large tank of gas and I would rather like to enjoy the scenery of the country, go down side roads, and explore than worry about whether I have enough gas in my tank.  It would have never occurred to me that I could use a GPS for that until my sister and I drove across the country when I moved and we used her GPS to plan out where to stop for lunch, dinner, gas, hotels, etc.  motorbike gps, gps for motorbikesWe used it for everything and the trip was extremely easy!  I couldn’t believe just how useful her GPS had been for our trip.  However, her GPS was suction cupped to the windshield of my truck and there was no possibility of suction cupping a GPS to a motorcycle.  I searched the internet for "gps for motorcycles" and was amazed at what I found.  I had never even heard of GPS systems that were specifically designed for motorcycle use.  The more I searched into GPS I found out that there are designated GPS systems for just about any outdoor activity.  GPS I guess has become the new and improved compass and everyone has one in their pocket.  Anyway, I found one particular site that I thought had a good deal of information about motorcycle GPS systems and even had information about mounts for car GPS systems.  Which allows you to use a car GPS system on your motorcycle.  I haven’t decided which I want to buy yet but since our dream motorcycle trip is not happening for a while I have plenty of time to look at more information and decide which to buy.

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Motorcycle GPS Systems and Mounts

Mama Brown

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… the perfect match with Motorcycle Gps systems. If you need to plot a new road while driving, these new systems can re-calculate while you drive. 

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16
Feb

Electronic Book Readers

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So recently I have heard a lot about the new Amazon Kindle 2.  I hadn’t heard about it before so I started doing some searches.  Apparently the item I have been hearing so much about isn’t even on the market yet.  It is available February 24th, although you can pre-order it.  However, I found out that there are other products like it and I so I did some research.  First off if you have never heard of the Amazonsony vs kindle, 2nd generation kindle, sony digital reader Kindle 2 it is Amazon’s latest verison of what is called an electronic book reader.  Electronic book readers or ebook readers as they are also referred as are little electronic devices that you can download books, magazine, even newspapers into and then carry them with you whereever you go.  There are many different kinds but they all can hold at least 200 titles roughly.  That is insane.  Imagine carrying around 200 books in a little device and the device is little.  They all range around the size of a typical paperback book and are as light as 10 oz.  I seriously wish I had one because the convenience of being able to carry numerous books around with me that take little to no space just sounds great.  Supposedly these things are suppose to be the next IPod and with how intrigue I was I think it is possible.  Although I am a little skeptical about how many people read vs listen to music.  I love to read and would certainly gain advantage from the product but I have the feeling that people who are not interested in reading won’t even give the product a second glance.  Which may in part be from the prices.  They are all very expensive, the Kindle 2 is $359 and it’s competitor is $400.  Ouch.  So even though I am stoked about this new product and would love to have one of my own I don’t yet have $359 to spare.  With my research though I found a really good sight that reviews the top two ebook readers I found.  It actually lists three but two are the Kindle and Kindle 2 which I have found are much them same just a little better.  It would be like comparing the IPod and IPod Nano.  Anyway, check it out.  After reading all the information though I am more apt to buy the new Amazon Kindle 2

Electronic Book Readers Review Blog

Mama Brown

 

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I have had the new Amazon Kindle II now for about 5 to 6 weeks. I have downloaded 7 pages of free books offered from Amazon so far. 

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