Domestic Geek

Last year (or more likely the year before that since I wasn't in a Christmas decorating mood at all last year), I realized I had two light bulb testers. I probably bought the 2nd one at an after Christmas 90% off sale at Hobby Lobby or something, not realizing I already had purchased one. Well, I needed to find one because part of the light string on the tree was out. Could I find either one? NO! I finally found one in a box of stuff that I had contemplated selling on eBay (like anybody would buy my extra Xmas light tester). You'd think I would have put it in with the spare light bubs. Nope. I'm sure it will turn up someplace totally stupid.

I've written before on here about sites where you can send eCards. I found a really cool site that is all about eCards. The post today had a new one I can add to my list — Bluemountain.com. Their site has some cute Christmas online games that are contained with an eCard. It's like sending two gifts to your friends in one! My favorite one has to be the Gingerbread Hangman Word Puzzle — everytime you pick a wong letter, someone takes a bite out of the poor gingerbread man! It's too funny! Blue Mountain has a 30-day free trial, so you can send some of these cool eCards to friends this Christmas.

I found the coolest site today. It's called Wishbin. It's an online gift registry and it's purpose to to organize all those wishlists you have all over the Internet in one central location. You can create various lists for any occasion, whether Christmas, birthday, new baby, upcoming wedding, etc. and share those lists easily with friends and family. I imported my list from Amazon, plus it supports any retail site. They've partnered with many big names such as Target, Walmart, Toys R Us, Sears and even Think Geek! If you're on a Windows machine, you can even download a toolbar to make adding items you really want to your wishlist even easier. Here's My Wishbin Wishlist.

The theme this month over on the FlyLady site has been Random Acts of Kindness. Yesterday, I was the recipient of such an act. Collen from Simple Kind of Life gifted me a premium membership to a board to which we both belong. When I found out, I was so touched that the tears started to flow! Thank you, Colleen!

I search for stuff all the time and I love finding a search vehicle where I can win things doing those searches. Especially if it is things I want like Xboxes, iPods, iTunes Gift Certificates, Amazon Gift Certificates and cold hard cash! There's a new one called Winzy Search and Win.

There are three ways you can win through their search:

1. Win instantly by searching from their home page
2. A friend that you've referred wins and you win as well
3. Points earned for searches allows entries into a monthly sweepstakes

If you want to try it out, sign up through the button in this post or the one in my sidebar. That way if you win, I win!