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With so many ratings for this product already, I wont write alot. I just want to say my husband and I are in love with this portable mount! We had a older GPS that we tried to mount, but it was always in the way! So we tried to just lay it on the dash or between the seats (which of course didnt work)! It was terrible! For Fathers day we decided to shop for a new GPS and decided to go with Garmin (the best decision we ever made) and just happened across this product…I thought with all the fantastic reviews we couldn’t go wrong and boy was I right! We put it on a little open section where it shows the time and weather in the dash of our car and 3/4 of the bottom of the mount fits in, which at first worried me, but it has never budged a inch and it was a snap to put together! I totally recommend this Garmin portable mount!
Gay Games VI Under

I’m in sales — I’m all about quota and “making my numbers”.

I am also very glad I didn’t review this as soon as I got it. It’s not the easiest to set up. I got it, opened it and put in the battery and put it aside. The directions don’t flow and it took my techie hubby to bail me out– and only after several tries. My first thought was to send it back. So, to avoid my frustration– put the battery in only when you are ready to set it up.

But now, I am in love. The goal is 10K steps a day or 5 miles. They add up. Doing laundry, making the bed and breakfast, etc etc added about a mile. Then I went for my 3 mile walk. My walk has markers and I found it to be accurate. Then it was a birthday celebration and I had a larger meal than usual. So instead of the 10K steps, I walked around my pool several steps. It’s 6PM and I’m at 15K, and feeling light (vs fat) from the meal.

These steps add up, to and fro the shop center parking lot is 75 steps each way. How easy is this– you overeat a bit so step it up! It’s only easy cause you can see your progress.

K– skip the harness. It comes with a string already and the bundled harness is $3 and they’re gonna charge you shipping. I was discouraged reading the other reviews– some saying “get something more serious” at this price? But next one will be a watch, waterproof at that. You need pockets for this. You can put it in your purse, but I don’t take my purse in sales calls.

So, I learned about pedometers, quotas and after one day– feel great. I’m addicted! It keeps me moving– did I mention I’m in sales and love improving my numbers?
Gay Games VI Under

fun game, even better once modified. This is a great “travel” Monopoly game. The one remark I want to make though, is that there are probably too many “money” cards and not enough “rent” cards. In other words, the money supply seems to far exceed the money demand in this game.

So, what you normally end up with, are the losers of this game finishing with a ton of money in their banks because they never had to pay out much — not very realistic to have losers who are very wealthy.

To fix this problem, buy two of these games and take all the “rent” cards out of one game and add them to your other game. This will make money a more valuable resource since the increased # of “rent” cards will present a larger danger to each player’s bank.

This will also have the effect of rewarding players who lay down property cards so that they can collect rent from them — the whole reason that you want to own property (and play the game of Monopoly) in the first place, right?

I also think this increases strategy somewhat because Hasbro Games Monopoly Deal Card Game puts you at a decision between using your property to collect valuable money or hoarding the property in your hand to keep it protected. As the game is now, it’s pretty much a no-brainer that, of the three types of cards, the property card is the last type you want to lay down (unless you have very powerful action card).

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Don’t buy it.. My son received this for christmas and we just spent an hour trying to figure Ucreate Games & Artimation out. It’s not very user friendly and the booklet doesn’t help much. The camera was unreliable, only worked some of the time. The games are hard to play, figure out and create. We couldn’t find the section of the menu where you can do the artmaition. I assumed there would be a separate part where you could take or draw pictures and animate them, but we could not figure out how to get to that part of the program. We will be returning this product.

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opens up conversation. The boys (14,10,8,5) love pulling this out at supper each night and picking a game to play. I love that we are having fun conversations and learning more about each other and our days.

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