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You Can Now Shop GoodIdeasandTips.com

It's been in the works for a while now, but I am excited to announce our GoodIdeasandTips.com shop! YEAH BABY! As you can see, we've added a link to it in the navigation bar, up there! From here on out, we'll be featuring a "product of the month," which will be anything from craft kits ...

Monetize Your Blog with Social Spark

Have a Blog? I know many of our readers here on GoodIdeasandTips are bloggers. A good portion of you are craft and Do-It-Yourself bloggers and I have seen and actively visit many of your sites. I love learning from you just like you learn from me. (At least I hope you do!) What I've also noticed, is ...

Safety Tips

I recently received this little safety tip in my e-mail inbox and wanted to share it with all of you....just in case! Written by a Cop for Our Own Safety This goes for men as well as women Everyone should take 5 minutes to read this. It may save your life or a loved one's life. Refresh yourself of ...

Update on Baby Boy Recipe

Do you remember the blog post I did on the Baby Boy and Baby Girl recipes? Well, I just wanted to share our results with you!! My sister has 4 girls, she did the boy recipe and just found out, a few weeks ago, that she is now expecting a boy! Yeah!! We have three girls and also tried ...

55 Fun Things To Do With Your Kids–The Ultimate FUN Guide

I have 3 beautiful daughters, whom I love so much. They are active girls aging from 9 to 2 and so we are always looking for fun ideas to do with kids. The first thing to do, is understand your kids interests. Our girls love horses, barbies, exploring, riding their bikes, swimming, pretending, dress-up, www.barbie.com, ...

Short Curtain Rods

This is what I started with.

One Hour Bread Rolls

One hour dinner rolls: (Amber Hawman's Recipe) 2 packages yeast 1t salt 1/4 c warm water 3T sugar 4T butter 1 1/4 c milk 3 c flour (more if needed) *Dissolve yeast in the warm water. Heat milk, but do not boil! Add butter (I put it in cold so it cools milk down), salt and sugar. Let mixture cool a minute and then add ...

Family Rules Sign

Okay, this post starts out with a good idea I had, but a strange request none the less. You know how when you're sitting on the toilet, you either have something to read, or you look around the restroom at the decor or whatever is in there. Well in my guest/hall/kids restroom, there is a ...

How to Have a Baby Boy

I know this is a little off topic from my usual posts, but I do love Random Tips and this is a little recipe for having a boy, that I got from my College Marriage and Family Professor. FOR A BOY... 1. Intercourse should be timed as close to the moment of ovulation as possible. 2. Intercourse should ...

Protect your PC with Vipre Internet Security

As a blogger, there is nothing worse than trying to blog on a computer that has been infected with some kind of virus. Well, maybe there is, but it sure is frustrating and obviously comes as a result of poor to little internet protection....

Everyone needs a car to get them from point A to B, right? Well, the Toyota Prius goes beyond that, offering one of the cleanest engines on the market which is due to the Prius’ full hybrid electric engine. This mid-sized car is not only a practical vehicle choice, but it helps to protect the ...

Spring time is finally here, especially if you live somewhere in the southern states of America. And along with Spring time comes the urge get outside and get some yard work done. Here in southern Arizona, that means turning that brown yard into a green pad of spring time fun....

Whatever the size of your soon-to-be dorm room, you can be sure it will be small. What would be considered a large dorm room is typically no more than a 15 x 15 room shared by two students. Most dorm rooms are smaller. Space is truly a premium. So, how do you live in what amounts ...

Over the past several years, Amy and I have been on an Entrepreneurs journey. We started this journey with a wedding planner business, followed by a glass company. It was a small company which we used to pay the bills until we could figure out what we really wanted to do with our lives. With ...

Have you ever just wanted to pack up and move to your dream location, spontaneously? But for some reason or another, you just can’t muster up the guts to do it? We sure have! And the older your kids get, the harder it will be to uproot and make the drastic move. You have to ...

Very often we think about fabric being just used in the home for curtains and blinds. However fabric can be used to great effect to inspire unusual interior decor in your home. There are many ways to use fabric for clever home-making and interior design ideas. Here are ten ideas that will inspire you. 1. ...

Bathrooms, for a multitude of reasons, are one of the most important rooms in the house. They provide a sense of personal cleansing and relaxation, so the aesthetics, layout, and functionality are of paramount importance. How is a cramped and cluttered space supposed to provide a person with rejuvenation? Unfortunately, rectifying an unsatisfactorily designed bathroom ...

When you wake up on a cold winter’s morning to find your vents blowing nothing but cold air, everything else on the day’s “to-do list” takes second place to fixing your heater! This recently happened to us, and instead of working (I work from home), I decided to fix it myself. So in this article, ...

Yesterday, for Martin Luther King Jr. Day, our kids were given the day off from school. So, naturally, as parents, we wanted to take them to do something fun. We’re always trying to think of fun activities for kids to do and our plan of action for the day was to take the kids on ...

Occasionally I find opportunities that are almost completely hands off, fun to work and can be extremely profitable over time. However, you’ll have to act fast on this one if you want a piece of the pie. The product is a mobile application which delivers high quality Personal Development videos and content on a weekly ...

Oh my goodness, I know this site is dedicated to good ideas of all kinds, and I am sure that includes my personal ideas on fashion. Now if you know me at all, you know that I am NO fashion Diva, but I absolutely love to shop and I love clothes....

Stocking Stuffers for your Kids! Looking for some ideas to stuff your stockings? Here are some stocking stuffers for 0-10+, boys and girls! So Thankful for “That’s So Cuegly” and her list of Stocking Stuffers!...

These are a bunch of cute ideas for gift giving this season!! What I love about them, is they are all fairly small, inexpensive, and easy to put together. I can give these cute gifts to my neighbors, the kids teachers and bus drivers, and even have a small stack of these gifts by my ...