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What keeps you up at night? The unpaid invoice to your biggest vendor? The grinding sound when Truck 1 changes gears? Switch gears yourself and put on your “home” hat. Does your credit card statement keep you up at night? Your son’s grades? The leaky faucet? Ms. Jones is probably up at 3:00 am, too. […]

Remember when everyone had their “colors done” by holding polyester swatches up to their face to see which “season” they were? If all your clothes were in this color palate you were guaranteed to look good and feel great every day! But sometimes we shy off when it comes to using color in our homes. […]

T tops. Duck tails. Leg warmers. Pet rocks. Ugg boots. Cabbage Patch Kids. We’ve all seen them come… and go. Trends, by definition, are here today and usually gone tomorrow, lingering just long enough for at least one embarrassing photo opportunity. We usually rush to throw some cold hard cash at the latest trend. We […]

List the Top 5 complaints you get about your company’s rules and regulations. Not the complaints you hear about price and design and 4-6 weeks for special orders, but the complaints about rules modeled by the industry then established by your company. Is it your 9 to 5 weekday delivery hours? Your refusal to sell […]

Remember the infamous “wardrobe malfunction” during Super Bowl XXXVIII? We’ll spare you the titillating details. More shocking then the “unintentional and regrettable” exposure of Janet Jackson is the fact that, after their rehearsals, the performers made a conscious decision “to have a costume reveal at the end of the halftime show.”  Janet just didn’t intend […]

Don’t ever ask a woman when she is due. Don’t assume she’s expecting, even if you’re at “Babies-R-Us” and she’s wearing a baggy t-shirt printed with a big arrow pointing to her bellybutton that says “BABY.” You know what they say about people who “assume,” don’t you? It makes an ASS out of U and […]

Have you ever been served dinner on the red plate? Not any old red plate, but THE Red Plate. You can get one on eBay: it’s simply a plate that says, “You Are Special Today,” that’s used to celebrate birthdays or achievements or just to cheer someone up. In our homes and in our companies, […]

World peace. Peace of mind. Give peace a chance. Ms. Jones probably feels rather unpeaceful about shopping for furniture. It’s going to cost her a lot of money. It’s going to take a lot of her time. She’s going to have to face off with salespeople who only want to sell her and delivery routers […]

Charity begins at home. Specifically, in Ms. Jones’ home. She gives her time, her talent and millions of her dollars to worthwhile causes at home and throughout the world. She cried, then sent cash to help the victims of September 11. She made cookies for a bake sale for tsunami relief.  She collected cleaning supplies […]