pelf-ism is contagious

Ho! Ho! Ho! It’s the time of the year again - the time for lovey-dovey I-love-yous and the time for lion dances and mandarin oranges and lots of angpows

If you’re a very busy person and you do not have time to shop for, buy, write and send out traditional paper greeting cards, Egreetings.com is the perfect solution! There are tonnes of e-cards in many categories such as Anniversary, Birthday, Get Well, Holiday, Sorry, Thank You and lots more. Plus, you can now get a free 30-day trial membership to send unlimited e-cards (a yearly subscription is only $13.99). Don’t worry about forgetting to send an e-card because Egreetings allows you to schedule e-cards to arrive on a specific date or to be sent immediately.

Some of the current popular e-cards at Egreetings.com are birthday cards like “A Little Chin Music”, “Birthday Badass”, “CSI Cake Division”, “Birthday Cleavage” and “A Birthday Wish (or Two)” or the funny new “Cupid’s Pickup Lines” Valentine’s Day card.

A little note though: When you sign up for a free trial membership, you will be asked to provide personal information including your name, mailing address, email address and credit card number. Egreetings guarantees that your personal information will not be distributed to other parties and that you can opt-out of receiving any newsletters from Egreetings during this sign up process.

What are YOU waiting for? Hop over to Egreetings.com and send the e-cards now!

Guess what? Guess what?

If you enjoyed one of my previous posts on Charity Guide and HATI, I’ve found something I’m sure you’d be delighted to learn about! *grins*

Have you heard of FreePledge??

FreePledge is a site that helps you support your favorite causes and non-profit organizations at NO COST to you. It provides you with a new and innovative way to fulfill your charitable intentions when you shop for books, videos, CDs, electronics and other goods and services online at your favorite stores such as Amazon.com, Apple, Drugstore.com, Office Depot, Target and more.

- FreePledge - Shop, Donate, Feel Good

But how does FreePledge work, you ask? When you shop through FreePledge’s network of retailers, FreePledge is paid a referral fee AND 100% of the listed referral fees is given back to the nonprofit organizations of your choice! For each retailer, FreePledge lists the percentage they give back to the nonprofit organization. 100% of the listed percentages are donated. For example, Amazon.com purchases result in a 5% donation; on Drugstore.com purchases, they donate 7%. Isn’t this cool?

So all you need to do is to select one of the 154 non-profit organizations (and this number is growing) affiliated with FreePledge. You may search for a particular non-profit organization by name or keyword, category (e.g. disabilities, environment, health, AIDS etc.) or state (any state in the US). Then you SHOP from 160 retailers, which include Shutterfly, Amazon.com, Flowers.com, Kodak EasyShare Gallery and more. And you’re done! Once your transaction is completed, FreePledge will donate the listed percentage to the non-profit organization of your choice! It’s as simple as that!

Sign up now so that you can track your purchases as well as donations, but if you don’t like the hassle of the signing-up process, no worries, you’ll still be able to shop and donate but you will not be able to track your donations.

So what are you waiting for? Shop, donate and feel good!

Yup, you read that right The new encyclopedia is in town and it’s called Encyclocentral.

The contents in Encyclocentral is categorized into A to Z categories and it contains practically everything from A Flat Major to Taxi Cabs to Zoos. Each alphabet page presents quite an exhaustive list of articles that begin with that particular alphabet, which unfortunately is not in alphabetical order, and each article contains information on that particular topic.

Personally, I feel that Encyclocentral is pretty much like the conventional encyclopedia we have at home, and probably the only difference is that it is available online. And perhaps it can be further enhanced by incorporating visuals into the topics instead of just description.

Now, you’re done here and you may drop by and have a look at Encyclocentral