Willow ,'Showtime'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
I just doubled checked on the site - I can't find anywhere that there are prizes. A drawing per age group per branch seems doable, right? Kinda makes me want to buy something to donate to my local branch, but really, they have tote bags they could donate. I wonder if it is because people complain about making it a competition.
Anyhoo - I have made my reading bucks and will look into whether the B&N here do anything.
A hilarious post by the Manolo: [link]
As a kid, I only remember te MS Read-a-thon, where the reward for reading was other people's philanthropy! Maybe there was a prize here and there, but I don't remember. I am thinking that books aren't ideal prizes -- any kid who would be motivated by more books probably doesn't need the outside motivation! Although it would save the parents some dough, so that's nice.
OK, the Manolo was tl;dr, but there was an ad on the page that confused me: Cool Whip now in a can? What was it in before? Junk food is complicated.
a book of his own will motivate mac, because 1) he loves buying/getting things 2) he cannot get superhero books at the library.
ita- Redi whip is in a can. Cool whip is in the freezer section, for some reason.
My family used to eat so much cool whip (we had "dessert" each night, and it was usually Jello) that my mom has, like 400 Cool whip containers in her house being used for storage.
from what I ate, you would think I grew up in the 50's! (My grandma cooked, so I guess it sort of was like that)
I never understood Cool Whip. It's so easy to make whipped cream. Is it dairy free? Is that the draw?
Cool Whip is kept frozen and has, as far as I can tell, no natural ingredients, so it doesn't go bad.
Whipped cream never goes bad! If you're doing it right (that is, eatin' it all up right away). I made it twice this weekend so I'm on a whipped cream high!
Yes, but it requires buying cream and then whipping it ... there was a time when (a) a natural product and (b) work were regarded as BAD things (this is the same time that gave us Jell-O and, um, everything).
I beleive Cool-Whip is dairy free, yes. Also potentially fat free.