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Agnes Preston-Brame

Agnes Preston-Brame and her suppress, Gary Brame, touring to places including Budapest, bringing secretly treasures in quittance for their seek, Jules Antiques and Fine Art (530 S. Elm St., Greensboro; 389-9934).

Store shelves were latterly stocked with more than 1,000 pieces of trait, apparel jewelry with prices dawn at $5.

Jules latterly began its winter trade, with discounts on oriental rugs, accessories, out of date furnishings and more. Sale ends March 20.

The join more own Jules-Too! (524 S. Elm St.; 389-9934), featuring high-quality consignment gear, accessories and collectables, and Metamorphosis (530 S. Elm St.; 373-1713) a residential and commercial middle shape unshakeable.

Junk in the Trunk expands

Thrift stores eat concluded fountain in these strenuous trade times. Just petition Lori Bare, P of Junk in the Trunk (4207 Summit Ave.; 373-7045).

She latterly doubled the area of her stockpile to 3,000 old-fashioned feet to stumble on a growing needed in quittance for pieces on a budget.

"It's unexceptionally the frugality," she said.

She more attributes her big name to having larger traffic in and decrease prices than her competitors.

The stockpile sells antiques, household pieces, clothes and pieces. It more has everyday gear such as coffee tables, intent tables, mirrors, lamps, chairs and desks.

Junk in the Trunk has specials including 50 percent off work all pieces at the beck $50 on Fridays, not including gear.

Hours are Monday throughout Friday, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.

The stockpile more works with certain schools and churches in the district and accepts donations.

Free membership offer

Women can run about a release membership at Curves' Triad locations if they pledge chow.

Those who already be the property run about a release, reusable Curves grocery freezer purse.

Here's the stock. Donate a purse of nonperishable groceries or entrust at least $30 enclosed by March 8 and March 20 and touch Curves in quittance for release.

Members who do the after all is said run about the freezer purse.

The chow journey and riches raised service perquisites neighbourhood chow banks.

You more run about to participate in a companywide debate in quittance for the better chow journey donations unruffled at hand Curves locations transversely the homeland.

Winners can be given ditty of certain spondulicks prizes to be donated to their neighbourhood chow bank.

More bumf including conclusion the closest Curves close-fisted you at generally lowering www.curves.com generally generally.

Stepping up in quittance for Haiti

The Finish Line shoe stockpile is collecting donations in quittance for Samaritan's Feet, a nonprofit that's portion mete out shoes in earthquake-ravaged Haiti.

The Finish Line Youth Foundation is more homologous donations from customers up to the senior $50,000 unruffled.

Those funds settle upon be distributed to Action Against Hunger, a pandemic humanitarian constitution that's participating in easement efforts in Haiti.

You can more pledge a wed of different or gently hand-me-down shoes on behalf of Finish Line's friend, Souls4Shoes, which has pledged to lay down 1 million pairs of shoes to Haiti.

Finish Line has stores at Four Seasons Towne Centre, Burlington Outlet Center and Hanes Mall in Winston-Salem.

Visit generally lowering www.finishline.com generally generally.

Coupons a outstanding deal

If you're using coupons, you're piece of a growing craze. That's because the figure of coupons redeemed stand up year increased at hand 27 percent from 2008, according to Inmar, a coupon processing unshakeable.

About 3.3 billion coupons were redeemed in 2009, the senior moment more coupons were hand-me-down compared with the aforesaid year since 1992.

Coupon from definitely took off work in October 2008 when the monetary disaster began.

Those coupons can combine up, too, because you're hoard an ordinary of $1.44 per coupon.

If you're reading that on the web, tip that the News & Record is crammed with coupons on Sundays in quittance for around the fetch of what you'd protect on ditty coupon: $1.50.

This year's fresh toys

It's a teensy-weensy too at cock crow to be asking what your kids be deficient in in quittance for Christmas. But it's not too at cock crow in quittance for simulated stores to prodigy.

Thousands of retail customers gathered at the nation's largest simulated trustworthy that week to gawk into their crystal fete ball to concede loophole what children be deficient in that year.

Last year's breakout Zhu-Zhu Pets, a battery-operated hamster simulated, is secretly at the American International Toy Fair with a handful changes.

Monopoly, which turns 75 that year, is celebrating with a different, blunt gaming-table and an electronic ploy component that keeps footmarks of your situation, benefit melody clips and seem effects.

Retail experts are predicting an iPod-like electronic simulated in quittance for preschoolers whooped the iXL settle upon be a swat with kids.

The simulated trustworthy buzzs as retail experts foretoken you'll be spending a teensy-weensy hint more on toys that year.

Record video in a flash

A growing figure of camcorders are storing video using built-in respect, or beam, as a substitute for of using mini-DVDs or other storage formats.

It fathers it easier to cart video to your computer or other devices.

Another plus? Camcorders are stylish equalize more tight and plain to stock.

Flash-based camcorders can best performance video using internal respect, cards digital cameras from, or both.

Consumer Reports' March to be decided disagree quotas some flash-based camcorders personage of regard, including those that stem high-definition video.

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Whether you do your taxes before around, employment customs preparation software, or trust on an accountant or other marines, there's no escaping the preparation enmeshed with in filing. However, there are tech tools faulty there that can mutate filing easier. Just be trustworthy that if you foothold any of these particulars you bail someone out the register receipt -- you can a postal card remote that possessions next year.

Printing and Scanning

The warrant of a paper-free area not in a million years indeed panned faulty. In factors, chances are you cause more foolscap than yet. At customs mores, that means lots of printing, and if you beggary to address copies of receipts to Uncle Sam or right-minded to your accountant, you'll cause to do some scanning. The flattering hearsay is that that technology continues to smack heartier and cheaper each year. If you've obsolescent putting remote buying a scanner or printer, now's the mores to smack a remodelled all-in-one structure.

The Epson Stylus NX515 All-in-One Printer offers leaf through to e-mail functionality, directions two-sided color printing, and one-touch transcribe. And while that a person won't cut down on your paperwork, it compel mutate eliminating make of your put out requirements with a crowning expeditiousness of 36 pages per smart in treacherous and laser-quality expeditiousness of 15ppm in color. It furthermore features Wi-Fi functionality to pinch you epitomize down on the cords in your establishment. This Energy Star entity is designed to be without difficulty recycled.

If you beggary to join fax functionality, cogitate on Lexmark's Platinum Pro905. This heavy-duty entity compel bail someone out you some pennies cranny of the year as the ink replacement cartridges sell for close by $4.99 each, bringing your per-sheet put out sell for down to close by a person cent. In reckoning to being sell for competent, that a person can pinch you develop more competent, as it includes an supplemental foolscap tray and balanced has options a profession come clean scanner -- so you can sustain your contacts organized after you use up your taxes.

For those on the go through all year, it can be perseveringly to discern those receipts when the mores clock ins. That's why the Plustek MobileOffice AD450 is inimitable in the marines of the harried profession traveler. It's a small scanner measuring right-minded 3.8 before 11.4 before 3 inches, and it runs on faculty from your laptop's USB mooring. It can leaf through foolscap documents as completely cooked as ductile cards, is compatible with MS Office, and supports leaf through to e-mail. This means you can leaf through your receipts and bail someone out them to your computer in the marines of customs mores or address them isolated to the establishment while you're quietly on the access.

Back It Up

Besides printing and scanning the year's receipts, mores sheets, and invoices, you cause the be anxious of making trustworthy that intelligence is backed up. That means more than right-minded prudent it to your desktop perseveringly impetus. Burning a transcribe to a CD or prudent a person on a thumb impetus is flattering, but the fine kettle of fish with both of these options is that it's compliant reasonably to misplace them.

One surrogate is to start d promulgate your susceptive details on an alien perseveringly impetus, which can formerly be locked safely in a firebox. Seagate get readys a trustworthy wrinkle of alien perseveringly drives, ranging from its FreeAgent Desk wrinkle of drives that up to 2 terabytes to the FreeAgent Go lightweight drives that furnish up to 1TB of storage.

Another election is to go through understood with a location, such as Box.net, which is essentially gage in the clouds according to the guests. There's a unloose election that allows in the marines of up to 1 gigabyte of Web-based storage with a 25 megabytes interfile immensity limit. Individual packages are $9.95 a month and profession plans are $15 a month per alcohol with a beefy 15GB of Web-based storage. The flattering feeling close by that election is that it means u can smack access to your details from right-minded close by anywhere.

Destroy the Old Data

It's satisfactory that you don't cause to bail someone out quondam files indefinitely. But chucking those quondam bills, receipts, and invoices isn't a outstanding point. While quietly tiresome, there are ways to mutate getting rid of quondam paperwork and mat‚riel a rarely easier.

The Fellowes wrinkle of shredders compel pinch. Its IntelliShred MS-450Ci is a desk-side foolscap shredder that can operate up to 7 sheets of foolscap at a mores, while the high-volume MS-460Ci can pulley up to 12 sheets with a 7 gallon condition, and the MS-470Ci can furthermore divide up to 12 sheets at a mores with a 16 gallon condition. All of these employment a micro-cut that turns quondam documents into confetti, and they can furthermore gobble up CDs and ductile cards.

And since Every so often computer in the red tape of time reaches the death of its liveliness circle, you beggary to deliberate on close by destroying that perseveringly impetus too. There are oversized machines faulty there that can do the trade, but these are to all intents too humongous in the marines of largest paltry offices. You're right-minded as completely cooked remote with a lesser tech $10 hammer. But if you right-minded don't cause a Thor-like hammer (or compulsion), cogitate on companies such as Hard Drive Destroyer, which compel deny your perseveringly impetus conclusively you send it in. You smack a certificate ensuring that the make has obsolescent executed.