Yahoo! Answers

Have you ever played around on Yahoo Answers? If not, I highly recommend it. Go to http://answers.yahoo.com . Essentially, you can ask questions - about ANYTHING - and it costs you five points. Then, people - ANYONE - can answer your question. You EARN points for answering questions. Then, if the person selects your answer as the best one, you get an extra 10 points. (It's a good incentive to answer the question well and thoroughly.)

I use Yahoo! Answers for everything. Here's a small sampling of what I've learned from Y!A in the last year:

• How to get more blooms on my lilac bush.

• How to seal Aaron's pastel drawings.

• How to turn the "Weeds" theme song into a free ringtone.

• How to move my family to New Zealand.

• Which cell phone company has the best pay-as-you-go plan.

• How to fix my sewing machine when it's looping during embroidery.

• What the hottest toy for 4-year-olds was going to be this last holiday season.

• Where to find an MP3 of the awesome, acoustic version of the Eagle's "Hotel California". (No, iTunes didn't have it.)

• Awesome ideas of what to do with empty babyfood jars.

• How to eliminate mold in my bathroom.

• Cute ideas for a rustic shower curtain for my bathroom.

• Whether it was ok to wear black to a wedding.

• The name of "that one opera song the fountains at the Bellagio danced to around 1999." (and, YES, I got the right answer!)

• Unique Christmas gift ideas I could make.

• What different color ear waxes in the family could mean.

See what I mean? There is no end to the great things you can learn on Answers!