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Everywhere You Can Get Free and Cheap Sandwiches for National Sandwich Day

DUSTIN NELSON is a News Writer with Thrillist. Today’s news includes options for freebies today on National Sandwich Day that include tons of free and/or cheap sandwiches, just a quick mobile order from where you're sitting this very moment.

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Cindi's 5 Year Spirited Anniversary Musings

As I look back on the last five years, a very large THANKS goes to the Tastemakers in Residence. What’s next for this year you ask? THE REAL SIMPLE METHOD TO ORGANIZING EVERY ROOM tips continue. Virtual Happy Hour in time for Thanksgiving. Celebration tips, recipes, decor for Christmas, Hanukkah and New Years. My interview with Siri Daly includes a sneak preview here for our followers.

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Halloween Hits

Halloween Hits from the ghosts and goblins of the past include all our favorite food & drink recipes, Franken-bites of table settings, spider-riffic flowers, NO-CARVE pumpkins and pumpkins that sparkle.

You still have 2.5 days to get prepped, so enjoy our ideas but then take a halloween twist of a twizzler, and put YOUR Halloween creative stamp on it! You can do it!

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THE 30 BEST HALLOWEEN CANDIES EVER

Halloween candy comes in all shapes and sizes, from new takes on old-school favorites to wax lips. But when grown adults dressed as extremely outdated dancing hot dogs reminisce about their trick-or-treat outings of yore, they're likely getting wistful for one of these 30 hall-of-fame Halloween candies, which we've ranked from great to greatest.

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You know you're around a Spirited Table® when there is...drama

You know you’re around a spirited table when there is…drama… Enjoy a few of my favorite hay wagons, scarecrows and pumpkins, from my trip to the MN Landscape Arboretum. Big and little kids sometimes = drama.

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Remembering the Past Tastemakers in our Lives

Today I’m asking each of you to take 5 minutes and relive the past Tastemakers in your lives. Your family, friends and colleagues who have inspired you to make up your own recipe, or pull out one of your Mom’s favorite recipes or plan a party for the first or fiftieth time. Celebrate the impact of their influence!

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I.LOVE.WHAT.HALLOWEEN.USED.TO.BE.

Are you missing the…Popcorn balls. Caramel apples. Tootie Rolls. Almond Joy. Sugar Babies. ATOMIC FIREBALLS? Are you tired of…test-tube, lab created pumpkin lattes, soy wax "Fall Fires" candles, iridescent bumper stickers proclaiming " My other ride is a broom!?"

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Reflections of Yom Kippur - Past & Present

Yom Kippur - The Day of Atonement provides an excellent reminder for all of us, regardless of your faith, that being the best version of ourselves enables us to have an enormous impact on our human and physical environments.

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What Is Yom Kippur? The Day of Atonement

chabad.org has been my go to source for learning about Jewish traditions, holidays and the heart of their importance to the Hebrew faith. Yom Kippur begins a few minutes before sundown on 9/18.

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