It’s the last day of my vacation, and I am absolutely exhausted from my time off. The spirit of sloth is taking over my soul and I am too lazy to do anything about it. I am also hungry. My girlfriend asked me to make...

DH and I have been invited to a barbecue where the host will be grilling chicken. I have no idea if it will be plain ol' chicken with barbecue sauce (which I love) or something else. I do not know if the people attending are...

...wow, I knew I didn’t really like her. I mean, a can of generic soup vs a can of Campbell’s is one thing (I can’t say I’d eat either), but... a can of supermarket carrots or, god forbid, a bag of frozen...

I received a wedding invitation yesterday. The RSVP card had 3 generic meal choices: Beef, Fish, Vegetarian. Because of the venue (a generic wedding/banquet location), I’m thinking this will be your standard mediocre wedding...

I’m trying to figure out if any store/generic product is actually better (at least equally good) as a national one? For example, private label catsup versus the Heinz Ketchup, etc. Only 2 that I could think of so far are...

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