SALES & FEATURES : For Women Old Enough... : CafePress.com

I hope that you moms out there had a good Mother's Day!

SALES & FEATURES : For Women Old Enough... : CafePress.com

A "For Women Old Enough..." store update:

This Page linked to above will give you a good summary of what's new in the store. But, I'll also make a list here:

~ From now on, ALL of my totebags in both of my CafePress premium stores (that would be "For Women Old Enough..." as well as "Music Stuff & More") will be sold at the reduced price of $14.00. This is to encourage bag re-use, yet another way we can help our planet - and, ultimately, ourselves.

These CafePress canvas totebags are good for re-use, being strong, easily washable cotton canvas. The bags can also be used as shoulder bags. (I've a couple of these bags myself, so I do have personal experience with using them.)

~ Along that line, surely you've seen the World in the "For Women..." store. No, really, the Planet Earth. CafePress merchandise with a high-quality NASA photo of the Western Hemisphere of the Earth graphic is now available in both of my CafePress premium stores.

~ There is brand-new CafePress merchandise available. I've been starting to add the maternity tops (in both white and in black) and the new Junior spaghetti tank tops (in nice colors) to both of my CafePress premium stores. Also, I continue to add other merchandise (always working at catching up) to both stores.

~ As I've mentioned previously, here and/or in my monthly CafePress newsletter or CHM Biz News Blog, some CafePress merchandise is about to be discontinued.

In fact, if CafePress doesn't remove the U.S. Custom Postage right away, I should/will, because the price of postage is changing this week, while this postage is not (being 39 cents). All in all, I recommend not buying the CafePress Custom Postage - or for that matter, the soon-to-be-discontinued CafePress Postage Pals. Actually, these postal items may already be unavailable.

CafePress apparel to be discontinued in early June include the Junior camisoles, the Junior baby-doll T-shirts (to be replaced with new Junior jerseys - stay tuned), and the light-blue trucker hats.

Note that the black trucker hats will continue to be available and are not being discontinued.

= "For Women Old Enough to Know Better" store
= "Music Stuff & More" store

More About the Tech Survey...

Pew Internet & American Life Project

Okay, these are my results: I'm a "Connector."

Sounds rather on the mark, actually.

But, this is about much more than me - check out the other general definitions and information.

Re the "Connector" definition...

"Ethnically, it is mostly white (72%); 16% are Black and 12% are English-speaking Hispanics. The typical Connector has been online for 9 years, which suggests they were a second-wave of late 1990s adopters. Most are women (55%) and they rate above average in educational attainment and income."

All true for me, except I've been online 17 years. What's "average educational attaiment"? I'd rate above-average income-wise if you were to average it out over the decades! (Bleeping recessions and their impact on employment...grumble, grumble.) We did have an above-average income in 1990 when I first went online. Pretty hard otherwise - it cost $25/hour! (Can you say offline-text-readers? Can you appreciate the value of a "free flag" - free access privilege -in those days?)

All in all, however, the most interesting and important take-away from that quote just above is this: "most [Connectors] are women."

(Why does that somehow seem not really that surprising...? Aren't we females generally a more "connecting" bunch than males?)

Survey shatters technology assumptions

Survey shatters technology assumptions - Yahoo! News (AP)

What kind of technology user are you? (Gotcha, yes, you most certainly are a technology user if you're reading this.)

Anyway, are you a "Hi-tech Elite"? A "Productiviy Enchancer"? "Lack-luster Veteran"? A "mobile-centric"?

This article contains definitions and stats from a survey. Also contains a quiz - which I'm about to try myself.

From the article: "Eight percent — mostly women in the early 50s — occasionally use technology and might use more given more experience. They tend to still be on dial-up access and represent potential high-speed customers "with the right constellation of services offered," Horrigan said." [emphasis mine]

True and not true - I fly along with Verizon's FiOS, with the servers on the other end (and my "old" computer and its "old" XP OS...) trying to keep up with me. OTOH, I do live in a metropolitan area and do have a college-age son at home (yes, the FiOS was his idea - I was okay with T-W's Roadrunner cable broad-band...)

BTW, I've been online since 1990, actively. Definitely an online veteran - not only were few people online back then, but women were only ~20% of them. I could write a book, maybe I will someday?

SALES & FEATURES : For Women Old Enough... : CafePress.com

SALES & FEATURES : For Women Old Enough... : CafePress.com

Finally got my Mother's Day and Mother Earth Features added to this "Sales & Features" Section!

Check 'em out (Please?)

TGIF. Have a nice weekend! : )

Sharing a Secret?

The cat's out of the bag... This is not yet public, but I'll share this with you blog people and hope that CafePress wouldn't mind (I sincerely doubt it would.).

From an official CafePress person:

Hi Shopkeepers,

We're adding excitement to Spring with new items and new color choices. Soon you'll see:

-- Maternity T-shirts: It's what you've been waiting for! With this shirt, we'll be offering a special belly print (10" x 10") area. Available in black and white.

-- Jr. Spaghetti: 3 new colors added! The colors are light pink, light blue, and lemon

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Me again.

Note that this merchandise is not out yet. But, it'll coming soon.

I know this is not so much a young woman place, or its accompanying store, but I thought you'd like to know. After all, you do have daughters, some of you. I will be making the maternity tops available in my stores - I do support moms - of all ages. : ) I think my already-available "Moms rule" graphic would work on those maternity tops, for a start.

Have a nice weekend! I'm looking forward to a quiet day by myself: baseball (just in front of the TV) while playing/working with my bead stuff, and reading my vast multitude of library books. Kicking back, relaxing, and, frankly, taking a break from this bleep electric box. Looking forward to Spiderman, too, in the next few days. Spidey's back! : ) (If you think I'm a bleep fool now, wait 'til "the Pirates"'s arrival later this month. Yo Ho, Yo Ho...) I'm just an old bleep kid. : D

15 Ways to Save Money on Gasoline

(bankrate.com)

A helpful how-to listing.

We need all the help we can get with this...

Note also that the less gas burned, the better the environment and air quality.

Coffee can be good for you, experts say

Coffee can be good for you, experts say - Yahoo! News (Reuters)

In a glucose kind of way according to these studies. As in coffee might possibly help prevent Type 2 diabetes.

I'm guessing that if one already has Type 2 diabetes or are in a pre-diabetes, in-between place (as I am, and so many), the slowing of the intestinal absorption of glucose that coffee appears to do would apply to us pre-diabetics as well.

A tip: cinnamon appears to good for diabetics/those-of-us-with- glucose-issues. Just in case, I usually sprinkle some cinnamon in my coffee. Makes it better, anyway. Cinnamon is otherwise supposed to be good for you as well, as is its "cousin", nutmeg.

Tip #2: As in how much coffee to drink? I would think this old adage would apply - All things in moderation, including moderation.