Earn A $500 Scholarship While Remembering America’s Heroes

The 2013 Melaleuca Freedom Celebration essay contest, Remembering America’s Heroes, gives grade school kids throughout Southeast Idaho with a chance to submit their best ideas to the contest. Every year, two lucky winners are selected. One winner comes from the kindergarten-to-sixth grade category. The other winner comes from the seventh-to-twelfth grade category.

Hurry! All essays are due by June 26, 2013.

Get all the details here.

Winners also get:

- Announcement in the Idaho Falls Post Register
– Essay read over the air on several popular radio stations
– Live on-stage recognition at the Melaleuca Freedom Celebration on July 4
– A family 4-pack of tickets to the Melaleuca Freedom Celebration (valued at $100)
– Essay published on www.FreedomCelebration.com

Choose a topic and find out where to send your essay here. Good luck!

Is it ok to use the internet to shame people?  Whether they are dressing poorly, picking their nose, or admitting to an affair…is it alright to post things about people you don’t know?

Mike says this is bound to happen in the modern world we live in.  Liza says “mind your own beeswax.”

Who should teach the kids to drive — Mom or Dad?   Who taught you to drive?

Liza’s daughter is in Driver’s Ed this summer, and no one thinks Liza should give her any advice.  Liza is a historically bad driver.  

Sure, they’re “bad” for you.….…but you still love them.  A recent poll asked people about their guilty pleasures.

1. Desserts

2. Overspending (shoes, clothes, electronics)

3.  Playing hooky from work

When you decide to indulge what do you do?  Shop, eat, or call into work with a fake cold?

Father’s Day is this Sunday. What gifts can you give the guy who already has everything?

Here’s what Mike says:

1. Get him something to keep it in. Organizational systems like a wooden jewelry box for all his watches. A Bully Barn for his outdoor toys. Shelving for his collections. Even an external hard drive for all his mp3s and movies.

2. Get him something to maintain it. Does he have a brand new car? Buy him a gift card for a touchless car wash. A multiple item charging station for all his electronics. Some batteries. Lots of possessions to maintain means he can use cleaners, microfiber cloths, mini screwdriver set, hand vac, etc.

3. Get him something to compliment it. Accessorize. How many times have you purchased something and realized you had to buy something else so you could fully appreciate it? Get accessories for his car, computer, gaming system, phone, boat, grill, shop, office…

4. Get him something for his health.  Nothing says you care about someone more than helping them improve their health. A gym membership, a bike, a year’s supply of vitamins, or simply make him a healthy meal.  Make it easy for him to be more healthy.

5. Give him the gift of time.  Volunteer to take a task off his hands so he can go do what he really wants.  Reassure him that this is okay, that he won’t have to make up for it later, and force him to go enjoy himself.

6. Get him an experience. Whether it’s snowboarding, white water rafting, a lesson flying a plane, scuba diving, indoor go-carts, paint ball, tickets to his favorite event, a weekend away, he’ll appreciate the experience.

7. Pay for something he already does. A man’s gotta eat, doesn’t he? Buy him a gift card to his favorite restaurant. Gas card, roll of quarters for the parking meter, magazine subscription, gym membership… so he can use his money to buy himself more of everything!

Do you have more ideas?  Share them with us here.

Dear Mike & Liza,
My husband and I are fighting about yard work. I like to mow the lawn. I do NOT like to use the weed whacker. He insists that mowing is his job and I should just do the trimming. I really, really hate the weed whacker. Should I just call a lawn service and fix it so neither one of us has to do either?
Mandy, Pocatello

Bitcoin?  No idea what that is?  I didn’t know either until this morning.  Bitcoin is a new digital currency and a couple in Provo is planning to try and live on this for three months.  The couple will not use cash or credit just Bitcoin for all their needs and this will be their first three months of marriage.  Learn more about Bitcoin and watch a video of the couple below.  Would you try this?

What are those little gems you can only find at a garage sale?  We’ll talk with one east Idaho Mayor who loves to find his favorite music on cassette when he shops garage sales and flea markets.

Tell us what you’re looking for at East Idaho’s Biggest Garage Sale here and 6:45 tomorrow morning.

Could you imagine a fight at your kids talent show?  Watch the story by clicking the link below.  What’s your best advice for these ladies?

What are you selling at East Idaho’s Biggest Garage Sale?  Baby things, furniture, video games?  Tell us what you have for sale and we’ll try to send people your way.

See you Saturday

• East Idaho’s Biggest Garage Sale
• June 15th, 2013
• Hillcrest High School parking lot
• 7a — 4p