Wednesday 6 February 2013

A trendy worldwide movement



It all started 2 years ago in a parking lot in Stockholm with 14 people...

                               
         
...and now it's worldwide, in many cities around the globe.


It's called lunchbeat. An urban phenomenon.

Lunchbeat happens on lunch break and it brings hundreds of people together every day to dance and party and let loose.


Djs come and mix music...
                                             ...and the working class gathers to dance and eat a meal.





MANIFESTO


1st rule: If it’s your first lunch at Lunch Beat, you have to dance.
2nd rule: If it’s your second, third or fourth time lunch at Lunch Beat, you have to dance.
3rd rule: If you are getting too tired to actually dance at Lunch Beat, please have your lunch at some other place.
4th rule: You don’t talk about your job at Lunch Beat.
5th rule: At Lunch Beat everyone present is your dance partner.
6th rule: Any Lunch Beat are to be no longer than 60 minutes long and set during ”lunch time”.
7th rule: Lunch Beat always serve their guest with a 1 Dj-set and 1 take away meal.
8th rule: Water is always served during a Lunch Beat for free.
9th rule: Lunch Beat is a preferably drug free environment.
10th rule: Lunch Beat can be set up anywhere by anyone as long as they are announced as public events, are nonprofit arrangements and are directed by this manifesto.

Cities that are part of the Lunch beat movement :  LUNCH BEAT CITIES

Should Montreal be one of the cities listed in the lunch beat movement? Could this be fun for us Montrealers?



Friday 1 February 2013

Tea in Bulk is cheaper and just as good

Indeed, I have been the marketing and branding victim of all these trendy luxury tea spots like David's Tea and Teavana.






Yes, my chest has imploded at the sight of my bill on my way out of a casual visit in one of these spots and I have promised myself, ever since, that I would find a solution to this problem.

                                           
So here it is!

Who cares about packaging! Who cares about the name as long as it tastes just as fresh! If you are a  daily tea drinker and know about the great benefits of tea, you might want to know this money saving trick:

Buying in Bulk in a grocery wholesalers could cut down the price in 50: for the same price you have 50 times the size of a teavana bag.

Here are 2 names:


S. Bourassa was my brother in law's suggestion upon my visit to to Ste-Agathe and we bought, together, 5 bulk bags of loose tea of different kinds and split them in two ziplock bags. Here are the flavours we purchased:



So, that's what I call "not buying into devilish marketing and customer experience schemes"!

Tuesday 8 January 2013

That old electronic you can't seem to part with


When you get an Iphone dock for Christmas...




But you can't seem to get rid of this thing...



Like a pair of comfortable old slippers...

What's your oldest electronic device you still persist on using?
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