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Things I Love: Japanese Kit Kats

October 8, 2011 by Kiersten · 24 Comments

I don’t remember how I found out about Japanese Kit Kats. But somehow I did and when my husband and I went to Japan a few years ago, I made it my personal mission to visit every conbini, or convenience store, we could find in order to purchase different Kit Kats to sample. Why the [...]

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Things I Love: Things I Hate Edition

August 18, 2011 by Kiersten · 8 Comments

I have an occasional feature on The Type A Housewife called Things I Love. I really wish I had time to do it more often. But you know what else I love? I love to hate things! And since I’m in a kvetchy mood today, I present to you, dear readers, Things I Hate.Free Promotional [...]

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Things I Love: Pittsburgh Soda Pop

July 13, 2011 by Kiersten · 3 Comments

When I was a kid, there was a little soda manufacturer near my house that we referred to as The Pop Shop. The Pop Shop made soda in the back and sold it from worn out crates in the front of the store. You’d take a case and fill it with tall glass bottles (oh, [...]

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Things I Love: Lifetime Movies

June 8, 2011 by Kiersten · 11 Comments

Once upon a time, they were called Made For TV Movies. But now we all know them as Lifetime Movies. There’s even an entire TV channel devoted to them, Lifetime Movie Network. Yes, dear readers, I love Lifetime movies and I’m not ashamed of it. Okay, maybe I’m a little ashamed of it. Sometimes when [...]

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Things I Love: Wallpaper

April 24, 2011 by Kiersten · 4 Comments

During the 1980s, wallpaper was everywhere. In the house I grew up in, I think just about every room was wallpapered except the living room. But then, suddenly, wallpaper went out of style in a big way–it was subject to derision and we all rushed to tear down our embarrassing wallpaper and paint our walls [...]

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Things I Love: Truffle Oil (& 8 Ways to Use It)

March 13, 2011 by Kiersten · 5 Comments

photo © 2010 Maureen Didde | more info (via: Wylio) We have a saying in The Type A Housewife household: Everything tastes better with truffle oil. And it’s true! If I had to choose one condiment to take with me to a desert island, it would surely be truffle oil. And if I had to [...]

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Amazon Week: Vacuums, Cleaning and Storage (oh my!)

January 23, 2011 by Kiersten · 5 Comments

Today is Day 6 of Amazon Week! All week long, I’ve been featuring some of the products that are on my own Amazon wish list. And tomorrow, I’ll post a giveaway for a $50 Amazon gift code so you can get something from your wish list. When thinking of ideas for this post, I stumbled [...]

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Amazon Week: My Favorite Soaps & Sudsy Things

January 22, 2011 by Kiersten · 1 Comment

It’s Day 5 of Amazon Week, featuring my favorite soaps from amazon.com! Don’t forget to come back on Sunday for my first giveaway for a $50 Amazon gift code. Woo hoo! I’m a bath and body product junkie. Right now I’m making an effort to use up my stockpile before buying more, but it’s so [...]