Memories & Nostalgia

This is a Sponsored post written by me on behalf of Walgreens for SocialSpark. All opinions are 100% mine.

When we moved to a new town in Bergen County, NJ in my teens, we were within walking distance of many stores. Most of them were along the main street in Town, but the food store and some others were in a strip mall that we got to by taking a short-cut over the railroad tracks. Walgreens was the first large drug store with a pharmacy that was added to the strip mall and it's still there today. I believe that was over 35 years ago. It took until about a year ago for one to be built in our current community in Northern New Jersey.

Recently, because of concerns related Walgreens and Express Script, a new savings program has been developed. Let me explain a bit. Walgreens was seeking to renew their contract with Express Script, a pharmacy provider network. The contract ended in December of last year, making it necessary for customers to seek out alternatives for their prescriptions. We all know how complex the insurance and pharmaceutical industries have become…and how hard it can be for many to get their prescriptions at good prices. As retirement age closes in, and as I look at my husband who deals with many medications due to complications from Diabeties, I can't help but wonder how things will be when he no longer has insurance through his company.

Walgreens has a new program to help now, so customers who have been customers for years do not need to worry. It is the ,Walgreens Prescription Savings Club At a cost of $10 per year for a family which covers pets as well as people, or $5 for an individual to join, and with savings on all generic and over 8000 brand name prescriptions, this seems like an excellent program to look into. These are not the only items in the story you save on, this includes flu shots and several other health needs. Visit the links in this post for more information, and to keep up with the latest, follow Walgreens on Twitter, and visit and "like" Walgreens on Facebook.

This is a Sponsored post written by me on behalf of LG DoublePlay™ for SocialSpark. All opinions are 100% mine.

I am forever enticed by the new cell phones that come out on the market and the features they contain to make texting easier, social networking more fun, and doing just about anything you can think of – and for me many things that I would never think of.

Having lived more years without a cell phone than with one in my lifetime, it can be hard to keep up…but I try. I read, I dream, and maybe one day when the time is right I'll upgrade. The most recent phone I've been reading about is the LG DoublePlay™, – "double" most likely referring to the fact that this particular phone has two touch screens, one with a 3.5" display, and the other a 2" display that can work together or separately. You can be searching for something on the web at the same time you are responding to the latest update from one of your Facebook friends, for example.

There's a Qwerty keyboard, and Android™ 3.0 OS with access to the Android Market™…something I do understand because I have that on my tablet. Theres a great camera, lots of messaging options – like Cloud Text™ and Group Text™, and so many more things I could tell you about.

The phone looks fun, and is available from T-Mobile, so exploring their service is something I'll have to do.

When I first got our latest cell phone about a year ago, I was doing very few text messages, now it's become a common way to communicate…maybe I don't do as many as some, but they are getting up to the 200 messages a month range at least. I don't (yet) spend a lot of time on the internet with the phone service I have, and imagine I'm missing out in that regard.

How about you? How many texts do you do a month? Do you spend a lot of time social networking by phone? Would a phone like LG DoublePlay™ increase your ability to do those things? Let us know in a comment…in fact, let us know if you're able to view this from your phone.