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Swap Of The Day Archive
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Grow Your Tastebuds with a Recipe Swapping Party
It’s so easy to fall into a routine when planning your weekly meals. You end up eating the same things week after week simply because its easy to quickly whip together something you already know how to make. But let’s be honest, that can get so boring after a little while. Why not change it [...] -
Swap of the Day: Swap Ingredients to Create a Brand New Dish
If you love to cook you are very familiar with the joy and excitement that comes from trying out a new recipe. Every step of the process from buying the ingredients to trying the final dish can be a joy to discover. Unfortunately in today’s busy world we don’t always have the time and energy [...] -
Swap of The Day: Swapping Bird Eggs To Save a Species
Scientists have taken to egg swapping in the hopes of reinvigorating the ailing population of streaked horned larks in Washington state. The streaked horned lark is a small bird native to both western Washington and Oregon currently on the candidate list of endangered specied according to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. The Washington population [...] -
Swap of the Day: Diamonds for Glass
Diamonds are a girl’s best friend. Glass stones impersonating diamonds certainly are not. In this week’s edition of strange swapping stories, a Virginia jewelry store owner has been charged with grand larceny for foolishly stealing diamonds from customers, and replacing them with glass stones. The owner of Vima Jewelry tried his best to scam customers [...] -
Swap of the Day: China Swaps Electric Car Batteries in Style
In one of our previous blog posts, we covered how the new company Better Place has made the reality of electric cars more feasible by opening up fully automated battery swapping stations where drivers can stop to pick up a new charged car battery. Well it looks like China has picked up on this idea, [...] -
Swap Of The Day: Swap Out Those Old Light Bulbs
At Swap.com we are putting out the call to action to all you environmentally-conscious swappers — go green and swap out your incandescent lights for energy-saving Compact Fluorescent Light (CFL) bulbs today! Did you know that CFL bulbs use 25 percent less energy and last 8-10 times longer that incandescent bulbs use? Think about it [...] -
Swap of the Day: UK Doctors Swap Scalpels for Bicycles
Three British doctors are swapping out their scrubs for cycling shorts and pedaling across France to raise money for the Help For Heroes charity. Jeremy Collyer, Ken Sneddon and Paul Norris, all from Queen Victoria Hospital in England, are participating in the fundraiser to help injured British service men and women get the proper care [...] -
Swap Of The Day: Swap Your House
Vacations are expensive. Sometimes you can not even get a hotel or inn accommodation in areas that you might want to travel to. So what about swapping your house? The concept of “House Swapping” has been around forever. To some it might sound a little weird, but in this day though the popularity of this [...] -
Swap of the Day: Carpools and Ride-Sharing by Zimride
If you’ve ever been stuck in traffic you know how frustrating it can be to see a river a cars with only one person in them all headed to the same place. That’s why an exciting new online community, Zimride, has devoted themselves to bringing people together to carpool and share rides. Zimride allows drivers [...] -
Swap of The Day: A Queen’s Sandwich
What can a simple lunch trade teach us? According to Queen Rania of Jordan, swapping sandwiches can show us that “wonderful things can be found in the most unexpected places.” In the clip below, Queen Rania joins ABC News to discuss her wonderfully-titled children’s book “The Sandwich Swap” and talk about the childhood experience upon which [...]