My mom got me a subscription to Readers Digest for Christmas. I love this magazine. It usually comes in the mail with all my furniture catalogs. It has lots of short stories and I love the jokes that you can read in there. I have some of stories I should send in. If they do publish your story, they pay you money which I think is awesome. They have some great investigative reporting too. I know each month I get this I have it read in the first day. The price is great and you can often send a free gift subscription to your family and friends.

With Valentine’s Day right around the corner, I know people are looking for things to get their loved ones. Let me tell you a secret — the best kind of shopping is the online shopping. It looks like you put a ton of thought into your gift - yet you never got out of your chair. Plus, a lot of the things you can find online are better than what is in the stores. You can spend half the time and get a better gift online. One of the companies that I use for stuff like this is 1-800-Flowers. I highly recommend them. I have used their company several times to send gifts (since I live in another state than most of my family and friends this makes my life so much easier) such as organic fruit gift baskets, balloons, flowers, etc. My items have always been delivered when said and the quality was great! The arriving item always has looked like what it did online. I have yet to be disappointed with their products. You get what you pay for, and with 1-800-flowers you do get quality.