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Have you ever thrown a party with a mixed group of attendees and had trouble getting them to interact? It can be a daunting task to get guests who have just met to mingle with each other. Yet, it needs to be accomplished since the success of your party depends on it.

I found a site that offers something that can be a great conversation starter. This site offers great wine glasses, beer mugs, coffee mugs, highball glasses, champagne glasses etc with small phrases and witty messages etched on them. The variety is huge according to the theme you may desire. Each set has four different phrases based on a theme, with the set of four of any variety available at $48. If you buy all three sets of any type, you are charged a discounted rate of $129 (a discount of $15 - thats just me, I have to look for discounts everywhere).

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Tags: Best Deals, Celebrations, Entertainment, Gifts, Kitchen, Wacky by Nicole Price
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This post may be a bit late because Mother’s day was two days back. It maybe a bit late to actually start looking for a gift to give or send your mother. But what is the surprise in giving a gift when it is expected? Instead send it some days later and really surprise her ;). Okay, thats a lame excuse, but since I’m running a bit late this time, that’s the one I’m gonna stick to. Personally I think flowers and candy are just a little bit passé, and they don’t really last for any length of time, so better bet is to get her something that is more permanent and which will remind her for a longer time of what a good son or daughter you are.

While the traditional photo frame is a good idea, if your mother is more techno savvy, give her a digital photo frame. I liked this digital photo frame keychain at Amazon for $14.03. It has a built in rechargeable battery and has a 1.5-inch CSTN LCD full-color display; stores over 60 photos. If your mother is the type who whips out the pictures of the kids to show to all and sundry she will love this!

One idea that grandmothers seem to love is if you bronze their grandchild’s shoes for them. Baby shoe bronzing allows you to celebrate and remember your child’s first experiences in a unique way and it makes a super gift for Grandma! Apparently this process is available in bronze, pewter, gold, porcelain, and silver, and for items other than shoes as well. You can get shoes bronzed here for $39.95 and for an additional $7 you can get the shoes personalized with the child’s name and date of birth! This is a wonderful idea and if I were a grandmother, I would be moved to tears by this lovely idea.

Amazon has some great ideas for mother’s day. They have patio furniture, solar birdbath fountain and garden lanterns for outdoorsy mom, a really good collection of stuff for chef mom, some very elegant items for entertainer mom, tasteful things for decorator mom, and even some very innovative and unusual stuff for trendy mom and mom who has it all! Go on take your pick; you are the best person to decide what your mother would like!

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Okay, I have to tell you straight up, I can’t really tell my Plonk from my Cabernet Sauvignon. In fact I can just about pronounce the fancy names. Don’t expect me to wax eloquent about bouquet and finish etc. Well never you mind, we will still try and find the best discounts available on wines for our Valentine day series. We did bean bags for two and then discount DVDs, now let’s see if we can get some discount wines.

There are many online wine shops, that offer to both sell you wine and offer you an education. Wine clubs, wine tastings and pairing wine with the right food are all offered on the sites I have talked about below:

The Wine Buyer is a fairly good, easily navigable site that offers selections of reds (Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Pinot Noir etc.) and whites (Chardonnay, Sauvignon Blanc, Riesling etc.) with the sale items shown on the home page. The home page guides you to a selection of free shipping items as well. There is also a region based classification of the wines such as the different wine producing regions of the US, South America and Europe. They have wine gift baskets on sale as well. For instance, the California Wine and Snack Basket is available for the sale price of USD 39.98

Wine Legend is another online store that offers prepared gift baskets such as this one called Birthday Cheer which comprises a bottle of champagne in a silver bucket with shortbread cookies, raspberry spread, chocolate truffles and toffee cashew nuts for the price of $73.99.

Rather steep that, so the Liquid Discount site has a whole segment devoted to wines at under $15, as does Shoppers Wines which has segments for under $10 wines as well as under $20 wines.

So go ahead and take your pick, and savor all the wonderful wines on offer!

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Let’s call this a sort of Valentine Day series… We plan to continue our celebrations over the weekend. The day before I told you about some great deals on out sized bean bags. Today I’ll try and see how to get great deals on DVDs.

I was thinking Roman Holiday, because it is a lovely bitter-sweet romance with the adorable Audrey (Hepburn) and the gorgeous Gregory (Peck)

May not be the first choice of my significant other, but he will have to lump it (after all we’re not getting togged up to go clubbing out of deference to him) and like it! I am willing to go as far as Casablanca or Gone with the wind but that is it!

So returning to the quest for bargain DVDs, on my perambulations across the net, I came across this very useful site Cheapest DVD Price. What this site does is this: when you type in the title of the DVD you want, it will do a search and give you a list of all the different editions of the film: Collectors’ edition, twin DVD pack, with or without bonus CD etc. You pick the edition you want and click the button that says ‘find the cheapest price’. What it then does it gives you a list of all the different places that you can buy the DVD and their discounted prices. It tells you not only the offer prices at sites like half.com, amazon, A1Books and Overstock but also gives you the respective shipping rates, and coupon information (in any). When you select the one you’re interested in, it takes you to the very page on the site in question. Real simple!

Oh! and since I love, love, love books (reading and gifting) I have to tell you that this site offers you similar services for books, this one for CDs and this one for textbooks as well. You can browse the textbook site by subject as well.

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Ahead of this Valentine’s Day, I got to thinking what me and my significant other would like to do on the day. I know that he hates crowds and loud music and that really narrowed down the field for me. We agree on movies, so I thought to myself get a rom-com DVD and curl up with it, accompanied by a little wine and a nice home cooked dinner later…. Perfect! I’m not telling you what I plan for later on.

I recently came across a brilliant item for two people (or more, at a pinch) to curl up on: It’s a seven foot bean bag! Truth be told I didn’t even know they came in that size! I found a good bargain at this Online Furniture Store where this baby is offered for $219 and comes in moss, tan and black colors. Amazon has a similar offers (costs a bit more but with better color options). But what I like about this one is that it isn’t that horrible faux leather finish, this is a cotton blend so it does not stick to bare skin (believe you me, this is important!).

Another option is a foam lounger: this one is a longer shape and can even double as a couch to sleep on! So if you are the sort who people drop in on unexpectedly, this one might be better, though more expensive at $329.95 and above. This one comes with different color and fabric options (not the cute guy though, you have to find your own cute guy or girl).

These items are also sometimes called sack chairs or love seats. Here they are available in many different colors…

…even pink (don’t know that I want a pink one though) They offer you the discounted price of $339 and this pic shows you how easily two can curl up, or not, whatever. Anyway, Happy Valentine’s Day y’all!!!

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