by Dwane | Apr 26, 2025 | Tip of the Week
Tip of the Week #324: How to Save on Gas, Insurance, and Repairs with One Smart Vehicle Choice Tennessee confuses me. All around me, I hear people talking about money troubles. And, all around me I see gigantic pickup trucks rumbling up and down the road. A quick...
by Dwane | Apr 26, 2025 | Lego, Tip of the Week
LEGO Tip of the Week #10: How Star Wars Saved LEGO Did you know Star Wars saved LEGO? It’s true! In the late 1990s, LEGO was facing a difficult period in its history. LEGO was struggling financially. Sales were declining, competition was rising, and the company...
by Dwane | Apr 20, 2025 | Lego, Tip of the Week
LEGO Tip of the Week #10: How to Organize All Those Bricks Not long after we decided to open Bricks and Minifigs: Vestavia Hills, I realized I was going to need a system to deal with the wave of LEGO bricks pouring into my house. So I went to Amazon and ordered a few...
by Dwane | Apr 19, 2025 | Tip of the Week
Tip of the Week #323: When Words Whisper Blessings I’ve been fascinated by languages since I was 15, when my family moved to Germany. One of the things I love most is discovering the hidden stories inside everyday words. Since Easter is tomorrow, I wanted to share...
by Dwane | Apr 14, 2025 | Tip of the Week
Tip of the Week #322 – Learn French or German with Chatterbug! Forgot to send this on Saturday… so, here I am on a Monday. Back in April of 2022, I discovered Chatterbug.com. In those days, Chatterbug featured live stream language learning nearly every...
by Dwane | Apr 12, 2025 | Lego, Tip of the Week
LEGO Tip of the Week #8: Save the Fingernails! Save the Fingernails! At Bricks and MiniFigs Vestavia Hills, we support healthy fingernails. Unfortunately, one of the greatest threats to fingernails today is the LEGO building system… which we also support. ...
