Category: Businesses Who Rock

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100-year-old NC Sock Company Pivots To Make Face Super Comfortable Face Masks-Available Now!

Sock company committed to saving jobs and making comfortable face masks you can wear all day-even with a full beard! There’s this sock company in High Point, North Carolina. Harriss and Covington. They’ve been making socks since 1920. American made socks and hosiery-how awesome is that? For 100 years! Then comes along the coronavirus crisis. Like businesses across the US, they had to shut down. That meant almost 300 people out of work. Two NC companies come together Dr. BJ

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New Jersey mom Gilly Garrett started her organic skin care line, Gilly's Organics, at her dining room table in Tenafly, New Jersey. She's now in 9 stores including Whole Foods.
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How One New Jersey Mom Created Thriving Giving Organic Skin Care Company From Her Dining Room Table

Gilly Garrett thought she was creating organic skin care for herself Gilly Garrett has found a formula for so much more than organic skin care. She’s found a way to give back. Big time. It started at her dining room table It started as a simple experiment to create a scrub made of oils and sugar. She started getting so many compliments from friends they started asking her for some of her beauty secrets. She started selling a little. Then

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Gifts for you to be your own valentine.
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You Deserve To Be Your Own Valentine! Gifts For You From You

It’s Time To Celebrate You! I love love, so yes, I’m a fan of Valentine’s Day. I hate the pain it causes, though. The feeling unloved, uncoupled, left out. Trust me, I was single for far more Valentine’s Days than I’ll ever be married. That’s why I’m all about living in the now. Celebrate the love that is here. Celebrate fabulous you! Whether or not you have a romantic partner, I believe you are enough, Valentine. I believe you should

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High school football player Danny Lilya found one incredible way to score two tickets to Super Bowl LII.
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The Awesome Way This Minnesota High School Football Player Earned Two Super Bowl Tickets

16-year-old Danny Lilya has wanted to be a high school football player for pretty much his whole life. Not just any high school. The one he has grown up cheering for in his hometown, The Moose Lake Rebels. Parents and teachers are all for a kid having a dream. In this case, though, There was one huge challenge– Danny was born with a broken spine and has been in a wheelchair his entire life. Don’t count this kid out. Not

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Chick Fil A is offering free breakfast to Atlanta commuters to help ease the frustration of the nasty commute in light of the I 85 collapse.
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Chick Fil A Serving Up Free Breakfast Following I 85 Collapse

Chick Fil A is doing its part to make Atlanta’s nightmare commute a little more palatable by offering free breakfast! This follows the collapse of the I 85 interstate Thursday in Atlanta. The fire that brought down a huge span of the highway will basically put Atlanta in a stranglehold for months until the road is fixed. The famous chicken chain can’t fix the highway, but they can offer something to make the ride a little better. Here’s the free

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Ali Sonko, dishwasher at Noma, in The Netherlands has been named a partner in one of the best restaurants in the world.
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Dishwasher Is Made A Partner In One Of World’s Greatest Restaurants

It takes a lot of jobs to make a great restaurant work: chef, server, hostess, and yes, dishwasher. This is what they know at Noma, named one of the best restaurants in the world. Ali Sonko has worked at Noma in Copenhagen, Denmark, since it opened in 2003. He emigrated from the West African nation of Gambia. Noma has done so well that it is in the process of building a bigger restaurant. As the business makes the transition, Chef/Owner

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A new free app called, "HomeSelfe" can help you bring down the crushing costs of energy during the winter.
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Crushing Winter’s Energy’s Costs With A Free App

This article on a creative way to bring down your winter energy cost is paid content that I thought could be very helpful. I know I found some good tips. One of the biggest ways our budget takes an enormous wallop is during winter months. That’s why it is a good idea to make sure that you are using the cheapest energy provider to help you spend less on your utilty bills. You can do this by checking out someone

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Businesses Who Rock, Husband's Crazy Frequent Flyer Mile Hobby, Travel

How Our Family Earned 60,000 Bonus Miles In 2016 Buying Stuff We Were Going To Buy Anyway

“How do you earn so many miles?” That’s a big question our family gets all the time. Miles Husband says it’s time to explain one of his most important, successful techniques to you. Remember this scene from the movie, “The Graduate?” In that same spirit, Miles Husband just wants to say one word to you. Just one word. “Portals.” Yes, portals. It’s how we shop for almost everything. Online shopping portals. It’s how you can make your miles multiply like

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