7ate9 Family Friendly Game | Review

[Ad- gifted product] 7ate9 is the latest one of the Ideal family game collection to be doing the rounds at the house – it’s a fun little card game based around quick maths and hand management. It’s also, like the other recent Ideal games which I’ve written about, got a really cool, compact storage option that comes with it. In 7ate9 the goal is quite simple, as a matter of fact, you just have to get rid of all of your cards before the other players.

Each card is oval-shaped, with a main number printed twice in the middle of it – so it can be seen from upside-down and right-side-up. This number can be from 1 through to 10, with ten. Then, in the corner of each card, there is a plus and minus symbol as well as a number from 1 to 3. Each card is coloured to match this little, top-corner multiplier – useful to remember for quicker play.

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Food & Drink Festival Online – Discover new brands

As many of the food festivals I normally would attend were cancelled, there became a bunch of new online classes and recipes popping up, but nothing really covered the ability to find new brands, all together in one space, and see what products they have to offer. Some of my favorite food festival memories are walking around castles, viewing new, small businesses that I had never heard of who make the coolest infused oils or rainbow pastas. Richard Reeves was speaking to the founder of Nauteas, Katia Sokolskaya and came up with the idea of a digital event focused on showing off some brands that otherwise wouldn’t be seen this year! I wanted to highlight a few from their Food & Drink Festival Online 2020.

The Painted Peacock

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ORGANii Eucalyptus & Citrus Mouthwash | Review

[Ad- gifted product] When it comes to dental care, mouthwash was always that one thing that I didn’t ever like the taste of. There are tons of health benefits to using mouthwash after you do brush your teeth, so as someone who doesn’t enjoy many of the default, strange blue colored ones out there, I was interested in trying out ORGANii’s different mouthwashes. They have two flavors; Eucalyptus and Citrus – with Citrus really peaking my interest. As I have been trying to better take care of myself, I found wanted to find a mouthwash that I better liked using.

These mouthwashes are made with aloe vera – a natural anti-fungal and antibacterial plant extract – and are formulated to help protect teeth and gums, as well as prevent plaque and tar build up, and of course fight bad breath and gingivitis. They both boost the creation of collagen, improving the mouth’s ability to heal. These are obviously all huge positives and well worth adding a mouthwash to you tooth brushing routine.

Eucalyptus Mouthwash

ORGANii Eucalyptus & Citrus Mouthwash

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Garden design inspiration for a more tranquil outdoor space

The weather has been fantastic lately, everyone is still stuck at home still, so if you haven’t already – it’s finally time to make your outdoor space a bit better for you and your family to enjoy. We have been touching up our medium sized garden over the last few weeks, adding in outdoor storage so that toys are put away and working towards making the garden more usable for everyone in our family. While planning out this garden, I figured it would be interesting to share some of the ideas I’ve had to create a more tranquil outdoor space – hopefully it helps you create your own dream garden.

Easy to manage plants

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Gener8 – Browser Extension that rewards watching Ads

[Ad- gifted product] When I heard about Gener8 – an extension that pitched itself as being similar to Honey, I was quite interested in checking it out. For those of you who aren’t familiar with browser extensions, they are add on apps to your browser that can do a bunch of different tasks. Honey is one that I use often, as it automatically searches the web and finds discount codes, then uses them to get discounts when online shopping. Gener8 isn’t looking to give you coupons and instead rewards you with virtual currency for watching ads if you use the browsers Chrome or Firefox.

Ads are all over the internet, on virtually every website you see. It does sound strange to get paid to view ads, especially as ads are how other companies do make money on their site. I was honestly very skeptical, but after using the browser for a few weeks now, I think I’ve figured most things out. Gener8 seems to replace ads on websites with their own ads – including putting their logo in the corner. My theory is that they then earn money from these ads, which allows them to give users rewards while still keeping some of the revenue. Personally, I do not know how the split would work for the websites that they are putting their ads on or how any of this works within the backend, but after watching some ads, viewing some sites, and generally using their platform – I had a bunch of their currency.

Gener8

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