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As we approach Black Friday and Cyber Monday, many online stores are offering free shipping, quantity discounts or percent off discounts – but none that we know of are offering all three types of discounts on one order. Please let your readers know that we are offering all three deals for consumers to Triple Dip.

Picture above is the Classy Solstice Bird Feeder - buy 3 of these and save over $20 with GregRobert's Triple Dip deals.

We’re calling our one-of-a-kind Black Friday and Cyber Monday deal combination – Triple Dip / Free Ship - and it is valid until December 17.

GregRobert is making the holidays even merrier by helping online shoppers save time and money, stay organized and feel secure. The Triple DIP, Free Ship deals are as follows:

1. Quantity discounts were made available on every single GRpet.com product. Buy 2 and save, Buy 5 and save even more, buy 10 and save a bundle.


2. Free shipping on orders >$60 with coupon: freeship (weight restrictions may apply) – but EVERY order >$60 you can save with the coupon.


3. Finally, all orders >$100, save $10 with Google Checkout.

Starting November 24, 2009, Google Checkout buyers (old and new) can take advantage of exclusive discounts at BackyardStyle and all of our stores as they cross items off their holiday and Christmas shopping lists.

Established in 2002 and featuring over 20,000 products, GregRobert stores are nationally recognized for low prices on pet, pond, wild bird and garden supplies - but they also have an expansive selection of Christmas gifts, pet products and farming supplies.

Google Checkout users will be able to take advantage of significant holiday savings from BackyardStyle - a highly rated Google Checkout retailer. BackyardStyle is offering a $10.00 discount on any order greater than $100.00.

Each Google Checkout user can take advantage of the offer one (1) time across all of GregRobert (parent company of BackyardStyle) websites. This promotion begins Tuesday, November 24, 2009 4:00:00 PM EST and will end December 17, 2009.

In addition to the Google Checkout offer, visitors can use coupon code: freeship for free shipping on all orders > $60. If that were not enough, quantity discounts on every single product in the store were recently announced. Thus - TRIPLE DIP savings at BackyardStyle.

About GregRobert Enterprises, LLC.

Over the past decade, GregRobert has evolved as an industry leader in providing pet, lawn and garden, pond and wild bird supplies in an easy to use, secure online environment. This season they have added over 5,000 new products for unique holiday gift giving. From wild bird lover gifts to water gardener to homemaker, BackyardStyle, GRpet.com and GregRobert stores can help you find the most special and appropriate gift for your friends and families - both human, furry, feathery and four-legged.

About Google Checkout

Google Checkout doesn't just save online buyers users time, headaches, and money as they shop online, it also provides them with the tools they need to keep track of their Christmas and Holiday shopping.

With their Google Checkout Purchase History, Christmas shoppers can access all the information they need – including shipping status and store contact information – in one place, from any computer. And iGoogle users can now keep track of purchases directly on their iGoogle homepage, with the recently launched MyOrders tab on the Google Checkout iGoogle gadget.

Labels: Black Friday Deals, Free Shipping, GregRobert Coupons

This was sent to me through email - so I cannot credit the author ---------

A chemistry professor in a large college had some exchange students in the class. One day while the class was in the lab the Professor noticed one young man (exchange student) who kept rubbing his back, and stretching as if his back hurts.

The professor asked the young man what was the matter. The student told him he had a bullet lodged in his back. He had been shot while fighting communists in his native country who were trying to overthrow his country's government and install a new communist government.

In the midst of his story he looked at the professor and asked a strange question. He asked, 'Do you know how to catch wild pigs?'

The professor thought it was a joke and asked for the punch line. The young man said this was no joke. 'You catch wild pigs by finding a suitable place in the woods and putting corn on the ground. The pigs find it and begin to come everyday to eat the free corn.

When they are used to coming every day, you put a fence down one side of the place where they are used to coming. When they get used to the fence, they begin to eat the corn again and you put up another side of the fence. They get used to that and start to eat again. You continue until you have all four sides of the fence up with a gate in The last side. The pigs, who are used to the free corn, start to come through the gate to eat, you slam the gate on them and catch the whole herd!

Suddenly the wild pigs have lost their freedom. They run around and around inside the fence, but they are caught. Soon the pigs go back to eating the free corn. They are so used to it that they have forgotten how to forage in the woods for themselves, so they accept their captivity.
The young man then told the professor that is exactly what he sees happening to America .

The government keeps pushing us toward socialism and keeps spreading the free corn out in the form of programs such as supplemental income, tax credit for unearned income, tobacco subsidies, dairy subsidies, payments not to plant crops (CRP), welfare, medicine, drugs, etc.. While we continually lose our freedoms -- just a little at a time.

One should always remember: There is no such thing as a free lunch! Also, a politician will never provide a service for you cheaper than you can do it yourself.

Also, you will see that all of this wonderful government 'help' is a problem confronting the future of democracy in America , you might want to send this on to your friends. If you think the free ride is essential to your way of life then you will probably delete this email, but God help you when the gate slams shut!

Keep your eyes on the newly elected politicians who are about to slam the gate on America .

"A government big enough to give you everything you want, is big enough to take away everything you have"

Thomas Jefferson

Labels: Government, Pig Supplies

• Place mice traps up against walls, behind objects, and in secluded areas where mouse droppings, gnawing and damage are evident.


• Snap-type traps should be oriented perpendicular to the wall, with the trigger end against the vertical surface.


• Multiple-catch traps should be placed with the entrance hole parallel to the wall.


• Traps and glue boards should be checked daily and dead mice disposed of in plastic bags.


• Gloves should be worn when handling mouse carcasses to prevent any chance of disease.


• Place mouse traps about 6 to 10 feet apart, since mice tend to travel very short distances

Disposal of Dead Rodents
Always wear rubber or plastic gloves when removing dead rats and mice and when cleaning or disinfecting items contaminated by the mice feces. Put the dead rat in a plastic bag that can be close. Then, place that bag in a second bag and seal it tightly again.

Dispose of the mice in trash containers with tight fitting lids - so other animals do not smell the dead rat and try to get at it. Rat and Mouse traps can be disinfected by soaking them in a solution of three tablespoons of bleach per gallon of water or a commercial disinfectant containing phenol. After handling rodents of any kind or cleaning objects that may have come in contact with the rodent, thoroughly wash gloved hands in a general household disinfectant or in soap and warm water.

Then remove gloves and thoroughly wash your hands with soap and warm water.

Labels: Pest Control

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