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Ashley Monroe, who attends a school in Massachusetts, wrote out 1,986 sticky notes. Each said, "You're beautiful," and she stuck one to every locker in my entire school.

 She wrote in her blog:

It was almost unbearable to listen people put themselves down every day. They would say things like, "I'm ugly" or "No one likes me." To me, that wasn't the truth. For at least one day, I wanted everyone to know that someone thought they were beautiful.

In case you missed it, this past Sunday if you pay using your credit card you could charged a fee.

It’s all due to the terms of a $7.2 billion settlement reached last summer between credit card companies and merchants, merchants will be free to impose a surcharge on customers paying by credit card.

How big a surcharge depends on how much the merchant pays in processing fees, but the amount legally permissible will be between 1.5 percent and 4 percent of your purchase price.

I was reading this yesterday and Garrett said, "Oh mom, please don’t talk about this on the radio! I don’t want anyone to encourage you to do this!"

Hattie Garlick has BLOGGED:

" I'm Not Buying My Kid Anything For A Whole Year"

She’s written a blog called “Free Our Kids” –announcing to the ether my New Year’s resolution for 2013: to raise her son cost-free for a year.

Research shows the threshold for pain is higher in men; but women always say you haven’t gone through LABOR and if men had to have the babies, there would be NONE!

So how bad can it really be? Two Dutch television hosts Dennis Storm and Valerio Zeno thought, "Well, let’s try it."  So the duo was filmed for their show “Guinea Pigs” going through labor.

In the video clip from the show (link below), the two men used electro-stimulations to simulate the contractions.  The electrodes were attached to their abdomens and the experiment began...