It was Benjamin Franklin who famously quipped, "Opposable thumbs, shoes, and cookies for breakfast are the only things separating us from the animals." Tie some dignity to your feet with today's Groupon: for $20, you get $40 worth of arch support soles and accessories at Good Feet.
The experts at Good Feet, a shop frequented by pro football Hall of Famer Emmitt Smith, festoon footwear with an array of balance and skeletal-supporting accessories. Daily routine activities, such as walking on hard surfaces, running in unsupportive shoes, or competing in office-sponsored hopscotch tournaments, can throw off the body's alignment and cause discomfort. Arch-supporting shoe inserts, carefully fitted by a Good Feet staff member to contour specifically to each client's feet, help maintain a balanced, comfortable stride. The Softie support nestles feet in a cushion of dense gel and soft fabric ($29.95), while the Hug insert fuses a soft rubber compound with a stability web ($69.99) fashioned by tightrope-walking arachnids to cradle heels and bestow ache-free steps. The shop's inserts slip snugly into most shoes, including high heels, and many can also help alleviate uncomfortable issues, such as heel spurs, flat feet, and back pain.
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The Groupon Guide to: Choosing Produce
There's no worse feeling than when you buy what you assume is perfectly ripe produce only to discover it's too hard or have it dissolve into a pile of ashes in your grocery bag. Here are some tips for filling your basket with ready-to-eat fruits and vegetables:
- Broccoli: Drag the vegetable florets-side-up across your arm. Each should be firm enough to rid your forearm of unwanted hair.
- Cherry: You'll have to tear through the tasteless, inedible outer layer to test the cherry's high-protein, peanut-like core. Once you expose the cherry nut, swallow it and rate the pain you feel as it gradually moves down your throat. If it's less than a seven, it's too ripe.
- Apple: Smell an apple. Does it smell apple?
- Cantaloupe: Knock on it to determine if it's hollow. If it is, there's a gerbil living inside subsisting on the fruit's ripe core. Hurry up! You'll have to eat quickly to beat the gerbil.
- Pumpkin: This orange, round gourd shouldn't deflate easily, so repeatedly stab it with something sharp, such as a hunting knife or the tools doctors use to open their mail.
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