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My Florida Travel Piece: Sweets, Spa and Stingrays

November 13, 2011 by renee Leave a Comment
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It’s up on AOL Travel. You can read it here.

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Filed Under: AOL, Clippings Tagged With: chocolate, disney, florida, mickey mouse, stingrays, Travel, waldorf astoria

Custom-made Shirts from FERKNOT

June 1, 2011 by renee Leave a Comment
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My latest article for AOL’s Walletpop.ca

Fashion experts say that jeans are one of the hardest items to fit and find, especially if you’re a woman. I don’t disagree but I’d add that finding the perfect dress shirt ranks right up there with the perfect denim.

FERKNOT may have solved the problem with their line of bespoke dress shirts for men and women. [Read more...]

Filed Under: AOL, blog, Fashion, featured Tagged With: custom made shirts canada, custom made shirts toronto, custom made shirts; custom-made shirts, FERKNOT, Toronto, who makes shirts in toronto

How to Get Your Favourite Shows Without Paying for Cable

April 7, 2011 by renee Leave a Comment
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I got rid of my television nearly 18 months ago and thought I’d miss it. Turns out I don’t, thanks to a few tips and tricks I’ve picked up along the way. [Read more...]
Filed Under: AOL, blog, Finance, House and Home Tagged With: cable, free cable, no cable, television, tv

Would you pay towards your friend’s house?

April 3, 2011 by renee Leave a Comment
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Are you attending a wedding this year? If you’re thinking about getting the happy couple a gift,then forget going to the Bay or Kitchen Stuff Plus orWilliam Ashley.

It’s not about the punch bowl that will never get used or the blender that will collect dust in the cupboard. The new trend in gifts is something that you know they’ll use.

Why? It’s because they’ll be living in it. [Read more...]

Filed Under: AOL, blog, featured Tagged With: aol autos, parking lot peeves, rules of the road

Would you pay towards your friends’ home?

April 1, 2011 by renee Leave a Comment
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Are you attending a wedding this year? If you’re thinking about getting the happy couple a gift,then forget going to the Bay or Kitchen Stuff Plus or Williams Ashley.

It’s not about the punch bowl that will never get used or the blender that will collect dust in the cupboard. The new trend in gifts is something that you know they’ll use. [Read more...]

Filed Under: AOL, blog, Budgeting, Finance Tagged With: buying a home, real estate, wedding, wedding gifts

Defending the manual transmission car (repost)

November 4, 2010 by renee Leave a Comment
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When my parents signed me up for driving lessons nearly 20 years ago I had no choice but to learn how to drive on a car with a manual transmission.

I didn’t question it at the time because where I lived most of the cars on the road were stick shifts, not to mention you could get a full licence or an automatic transmission licence. [Read more...]

Filed Under: AOL, blog, Cars Tagged With: autos, cars, manual transmission, renee sylvestre-williams, standard transmission, stick shift

Dating advice for the unemployed

October 9, 2010 by renee Leave a Comment
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A few of us were chatting over drinks the other day and the topic came up – should you date while unemployed? Do you tell the other person or do you wait? Do you even bother to go out or just stay home on the couch? [Read more...]

Filed Under: AOL, Business writing, Finance Tagged With: dating, josey vogels, unemployed

Beyonce and Jay-Z Make Guinness Book of World Records

September 27, 2010 by renee 1 Comment
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Music power couple Beyonce Knowles and Jay-Z have made the Guinness Book of World Records for being the highest-earning power couple in the world. To accomplish the rare feat, they had to knock out perennial media darlings David and Victoria Beckham among others. The numbers are staggering, but perhaps not entirely surprising, considering how omnipresent their music is. [Read more...]

Filed Under: AOL, Celebrity, Clippings, Finance, Walletpop.ca Tagged With: Beyonce, celebs, Jay-Z

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