Sticker Shock: What the Stickers on Fruit are Telling You
If you’re frustrated by those pesky stickers on supermarket produce, this may change your tune. Did you know that those stickers aren’t just for the checkers’ use? The International Federation for...
View ArticleGeekMom Holiday Gift Guide #1: Books
Regardless of what holidays you celebrate, the end-of-year festivities are right around the corner. If you choose to purchase gifts online, you need to order then in advance to allow for shipping time,...
View ArticleThe Saga of a Geek Who (Once) Hated Apple
It is sort of an unwritten law of geekdom that when we have opinions about technology, we must have very, VERY strong opinions. I faithfully adhere to this rule and had dually applied it to my sheer...
View ArticleGeekMom Holiday Gift Guide #3: Small Kids
Regardless of what holidays you celebrate, the end-of-year festivities are right around the corner. If you choose to purchase gifts online, you need to order then in advance to allow for shipping time,...
View ArticleChristmas at Valkenburg
Starting in mid-November and going through January 6th, the cities and villages in the Netherlands and Germany are laden with bright Christmas decorations, and a visitor or expatriate living in these...
View ArticleGeekMom Holiday Gift Guide #4: Larger Kids
Regardless of what holidays you celebrate, the end-of-year festivities are right around the corner. If you choose to purchase gifts online, you need to order then in advance to allow for shipping time,...
View ArticleGeekMom T-shirts, Now Available at ThinkGeek!
We here at GeekMom are proud and excited to announce that GeekMom T-shirts are now available for purchase at ThinkGeek! The shirts have our zippy space-age car logo, in slightly less varied colors (due...
View ArticleGeekMom Holiday Gift Guide #5: Toys For Most Any Age, Including Grown-Ups
Regardless of what holidays you celebrate, the end-of-year festivities are right around the corner. If you choose to purchase gifts online, you need to order then in advance to allow for shipping time,...
View ArticleEtsy Holiday Gift Guide
Etsy is, by their own definition, “your place to buy all things handmade and vintage.” For me, it’s a go-to site for amazing and unique gifts from self-employed artists and small business. While there...
View ArticleSteampunk Santa Postcards
For a while in my twenties I worked in a book store that sold antique and vintage books and paper materials, including postcards. The postcards were always great fun to sort through. Piles of aged card...
View ArticleGeekMom Holiday Gift Guide #6: Grown-Ups
Regardless of what holidays you celebrate, the end-of-year festivities are right around the corner. If you choose to purchase gifts online, you need to order then in advance to allow for shipping time,...
View ArticleThere’s No Such Thing as Girls’ Toys and Boys’ Toys
We’ve had a lot to say about princesses, Disney-style and otherwise, during this past week. Our relationship to princesses is as much about our personal identities as it is about the social messages...
View ArticleUse the Coupon Luke
Over the past six months our family has been delving into the world of couponing. It varies week by week depending on how maniacal I let myself get but we usually save around $8-10, this week we saved...
View ArticleMeet Our Sponsor: 5.11 Tactical
Starting today, we have a brand new sponsor, 5.11 Tactical. 5.11 Tactical makes products used by law enforcement, the military, and firefighters, and for anyone looking for durable, quality goods. They...
View Article5.11 Tactical Makes Sturdy, Quality Goods
GeekMom’s newest sponsor, 5.11 Tactical, maker of a wide variety of tactical equipment, sent me a few of their products to test. They sent the Women’s Tactical Pants, the women’s short sleeved Tactical...
View ArticleMy Addiction To Teenager Consignment Stores
Geeks aren’t known for being fashion plates. I spend a lot of time with people for whom the daily uniform is the cleanest jeans in their bedroom along with the top ThinkGeek shirt on the stack in the...
View ArticleMath is Everywhere: The Kidz Korner Gift Shoppe Experience
Last week I spent several hours at my 9-year-old’s school, helping children with their holiday gift purchase experience. It’s a program that my boys’ schools’ PTOs put on as a service for the...
View ArticleIs That Amazon Price A Good Deal?
You’re looking at an item on Amazon, trying to remember how much it was when you saw it in a store two weeks ago. Is Amazon’s price better? Maybe. Unless it’s a toy, in which case, my experience...
View ArticleProduct Review: Brica Phone Pod
This past December I finally got a smart phone. Gone were the days of my dubious flip phone and it’s inability to make a phone call. Let me just say, it is a whole new world, people! Who knew you ...
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Behold! Magnificent Custom Dice Enrich Your Play
Would you say you had a plethora of dice? Many geeks do, having anywhere from a set or two of the seven traditional polyhedral dice to having bags of the stuff, where they end up being the ones...
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