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Have you tried any of the Extra Dessert Delight gums?  Ever since I discovered them, they’ve been my favorite gum.  I love key lime pie but I don’t like the calories and the effects on my body.  Extra Dessert Delight gums help with their Key Lime Pie flavor.  This one is my fave so far.  In my opinion, it tastes very much like real key lime pie.  The fact that it only has a couple calories per stick and is sugar free is great.  I keep several different flavors of this gum in my clip board for work.

Extra Dessert Delights gum offers flavors like the one I mentioned above, strawberry shortcake, orange creme pop, apple pie, and mint chocolate chip.  Extra wants your opinion now on what the next flavor should be.  Go to Extra Dessert Delights facebook fan page to vote.

The competition is between Bananas Foster, Rootbeer Float, and Lemon Square.  It’s such a hard choice for me.  I love Lemon Squares but I think Bananas Foster would be interesting.  After weighing the options in my head I voted for Bananas Foster.  How about you, who will you vote for?

The winner of the fan flavorite vote will be announced on November 16, 2011 so get over there and vote.  Alternatively, you can also vote from your phone.

Disclosure: I was entered for a chance to win an Extra® Dessert Delights® gum prize package in exchange for this post.  No monetary exchange took place.

Everyone knows that college is a huge expense but well worth the money if you can find a job doing what you love.  One of the many expenses that empty you wallet are college text books.  You’re required to have specific books. If you buy them brand new, the price of each book is enough to make you sick.  If you’re lucky, you can get your hands on a used one to save a little money that way.  There’s another option though, Campusbookrentals.com.

Campusbookrentals.com offers free shipping both ways on the textbooks you need. They also offer a 30 day, risk free trial. They have the largest selection of textbooks in the nation. They also offer flexible rental periods. You can save up to 90% on your textbooks!

 If you bought books last semester and don’t have a need for them anymore, Campusbookrentals.com will buy books too.

Campusbookrentals.com is a company that cares.  For 2011, they have teamed up with Operation Smile. Operation Smile performs cleft palate surgeries on children whose family would otherwise not be able to afford it.  For every book rented in 2011, a portion of the proceeds will go to Operation Smile. Campusbookrentals.com goal is to help 1000 children.  Click the link in this paragraph to see other charities Campusbookrentals.com has worked with in previous years.

So let’s see: save money, get the books you need, help a company donate to a worthy charity, sounds like a good deal to me.

You can also find Campusbookrentals.com on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/CampusBookRentals
and on twitter: http://twitter.com/textbookrentals

***This is a sponsored post through Campusbookrentals.com. ***

While some of you have already had trick or treat with your kids, other towns are getting ready to have theirs. Our trick or treat is on Monday.  If you have already done your trick or treat it’s important to keep in mind that a town your driving through might be holding their trick or treat.  If you haven’t yet there’s lot of safety measures to take.  Acuvue has provided some safety tips for us here for both trick or treaters and drivers.

• It’s important that pedestrians dress themselves in a way that provides contrast and reflectivity, for example, by wearing light colors. Wear white if you’re going to bicycle at night or walk at night, and wear reflective tape. Put it on parts of your body that are going to be moving—this goes for Halloween costumes as well!
• Don’t let children run ahead of you and be sure to hold the hand of especially little ones.

For more great tips you can listen to the newest Healthy Vision^TM with Dr. Val Jones. Optometrist Dr. Christina Schnider and Group Vice President of the National Safety Council John Ulczyski will be joining Dr. Val Jones for the show to talk about how to take care of your eyes in the dark. This edition will air on Tuesday Nov. 1, 2011.  You’ll be able to check it out HERE, or you can download it on iTunes for free. 

As you know from my Shutterfly gift card giveaway (which is still active by the way), I love Shutterfly.  I try to get the kids in the pics so the family can see them.  I have a huge extended family.  The kids were out playing in our first real snow fall of the year.  They were having so much fun and playing so well together that I decided this pic would be great for this year’s holiday card.  What do you think?

Wanna make your own Shutterfly holiday greeting card for FREE?  My giveaway for 3 winners to win a code for 25 free Shutterfly greeting cards is still open.  It’s open internationally but only US winners get free shipping.  Anyone who wins outside of the US will have to pay for shipping.

Dashing Greetings Christmas Card

This season, send Christmas cards personalized with family photos.

View the entire collection of cards.

Ghirardelli has an instant win game going on right now.  Answer 10 short questions and you could win one of thousands of prizes including a tip to San Fransico.  Several people I know reported winning free chocolate already.