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Love Drop #3: Out of the Frying Pan and Into The Fire

Jesse Michelsen — Tue, 08 Mar 2011 14:30:01 +0000

I hate being sick, it just sucks. Since I moved to Utah, I’ve been sick more than ever before, probably mostly because of the cold. Sickness goes through Utah in waves and I used to just get knocked over by them each Winter. But doesn’t it feel great when you recover from something like the [...]

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The First Love Drop Is Now Live!

Jesse Michelsen — Fri, 07 Jan 2011 18:47:37 +0000

Haven’t heard of Love Drop yet? Where have you been? Love Drop is a brand new organization created by the charismatic and passionate J. Money from BudgetsAreSexy and Nate from It Starts With Us centered around helping people. The goal is to help one family who is down on their luck each and every month. [...]

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Gift Cards: The Enemy Of Sincerity

Jesse Michelsen — Mon, 13 Dec 2010 14:40:02 +0000

One of the biggest pushes that you will see around the later half of each year is that of retailers and their gift cards. Gift cards are essentially a credit to a store that is void of any identification so it can be given to someone else as a gift to spend as they like. [...]

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I’m Giving The Gift of a Guiltfree Ungift. Join Me Won’t You?

Jesse Michelsen — Thu, 02 Dec 2010 18:40:29 +0000

I don’t have to tell you that there are plenty of people this year out of work and hurting. Some things have gotten better but for the most part we are still right in the middle of the recession. Yet there is word that sales this shopping season have picked up over the last few [...]

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You Like Bottled Water Don’t You?

Jesse Michelsen — Fri, 15 Oct 2010 16:27:43 +0000

Today I want to use a little creative imagery and see if I can paint a picture in your mind… It’s a summer day in August, around 11 o-clock. You decide to take your children, Jenny and Lance, outside and enjoy the morning before it gets too hot. As you walk out the door, the [...]

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Money Really Doesn’t Buy Happiness

Jesse Michelsen — Thu, 30 Sep 2010 16:18:05 +0000

Utah seems to always be in a state of construction. I’m not sure if it is because the state has the money do redo all the roads or if I just happened to move here when every road in the state needed repair, but needless to say, everywhere you go you will end up being [...]

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How Building Relationships Can Improve Your Life

Jesse Michelsen — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 14:30:29 +0000

In the good old days, think Little House on the Prairie, every town had their one person of each trade. If you needed a doctor, you called for Doc Baker or even just shouted, “Get the doctor!” and everyone knew who that doctor was. If you needed supplies, you would go to the general store, [...]

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Blogging With a Cause: Hunger and Hope

Jesse Michelsen — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 15:00:26 +0000

I go hungry every once in a while, not because I have no other choice but because I am lazy or unprepared. How would it feel to go hungry every day because you had no other choice. This blog post is in support of the Bloggers Unite for Hunger and Hope, a call to end [...]

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Earth Day: We Tried

Jesse Michelsen — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 13:19:57 +0000

I know you all come here (or subscribe) to read my behemoth posts but it’s busy season at work, busy season at home and projects are rolling in. So for the next few weeks I regret to say that I will be posting somewhat smaller posts, somewhere in the 500 word range vs my regular [...]

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