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I have been looking around this site and noticed at the top of the page it says "Brownie Points".  What are they and what are they used for.  I clicked the ? and found how to earn them but

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Brownie Points

posted at 12/28/2010 10:45 PM EST

TORI F

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I have been looking around this site and noticed at the top of the page it says "Brownie Points". What are they and what are they used for. I clicked the ? and found how to earn them but can't find out why I would want to.

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Re: Brownie Points

posted at 12/29/2010 9:56 PM EST

Nancy G

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Hi Tori -- welcome to the VBB board. I haven't the faintest idea what the Brownie Points are or what they're used for ....
VBB says they will tell us in January.
So, I suggest you get more points ... hurry up :-)

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Re: Brownie Points

posted at 12/30/2010 6:55 AM EST

Deborah C

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I have been asking this same question for a long time... long before the site "upgrade." Seems sort of foolish to have a visitors' program with no information. If the old program is changing in January, then at least they should have some sort of an explanation on the site as to what it was and what changes can be expected.

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Re: Brownie Points

posted at 12/30/2010 9:08 AM EST

nikki p

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I don't pay much attention to the "brownie points" because it never meant much to me in the past. I just never got enough points for it to matter. Now that I am posting messages I am getting more points but it doesn't matter because I am enjoying myself. Actually the points sort of remind me I am spending a bit more time on the computer than I should!

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posted at 12/31/2010 7:15 AM EST

Nancy G

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lol lol Nikki ..... me too! I spend too much time on this little machine. I could be doing WORK. lol

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posted at 12/31/2010 5:34 PM EST

nikki p

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lol lol Nikki ..... me too! I spend too much time on this little machine. I could be doing WORK. lol
Posted by Nancy G

I don't know Nancy, for you it might be better you are on the computer. At least then you are not mixing up a batch of cookies. (I know you are on the computer during the 8 to 10 minutes a batch is in the oven.)

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posted at 12/31/2010 6:01 PM EST

nikki p

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Should we all log on at Midnight tonight and watch our Brownie Points nose dive to ...0...?

Not that it matters since we have no idea what they are good for.

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posted at 12/31/2010 6:18 PM EST

Sharon T

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Ahhh so now we should know in Jan? Coming up mighty soon. I have won a couple of aprons with my brownie points in the past.

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posted at 12/31/2010 6:28 PM EST

Nancy G

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hee hee hee -- come on Nikki .... you know I'll be on here at midnight.
If I get a wild and crazy idea to celebrate ..... er.... ah.... hmmmmm....uh ......
I'll go to Walmart!!

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posted at 12/31/2010 6:54 PM EST

nikki p

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Wow We really know how to celebrate here! This is me all "gussied" up for the celebration.

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posted at 12/31/2010 7:40 PM EST

Nancy G

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Nikki -- Did you post the Buterscotch - Cashew Cookie recipe? Please, pretty please.
I copied and printed that being eager to make it.
I just set up the mixer, placed the already crushed butterscotch pieces, got the cashews .... all ready to go, right?

Well, I can't find the recipe!!! I've torn everything in my messy kitchen looking for it but it's gone. Rats.
I wonder if I can find it now.

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posted at 12/31/2010 10:10 PM EST

Nancy G

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What a day ..... I hope things straighten out and get easier........ for all of us.

I made Butterscotch Cookies just using my Nestles Chocolate Chip recipe .... no chocolate chips, of course.

No cashews either .....I knew I had that can of cashews in my cupboard....I didn't know they had been opened and snacked on. No problem there but I also didn't know they expired in September ..... yuk. Smelly rancid nuts.
OK -- move on, just leave out the nuts.... add lots of crushed butterscotch.

I put the dough in the 'fridge to set up a bit and it was easy to roll into balls and push each one into the finest crushed butterscotch. I'd saved that just for this purpose.
But it spread too much in the oven and the hard butterscotch pieces made transparent spots in the cookies.
They are really delicious but still too flat and "hole-y"

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Re: Brownie Points

posted at 1/1/2011 4:17 AM EST

Deborah C

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Here it is January, and I still have no idea what to do with the brownie points yet, but there are 3 updates in the forum from VBB. Maybe the information will be forthcoming soon.

The points didn't take a nose dive like the crystal ball in Times Square or the beachball at our local beach celebration, so that might be a good sign.

Did someone say they won an apron with brownie points? That's something I could use - after all the holiday baking, many of my tee shirts have grease stains etc. If not an apron, lots more detergent or a bottle of citra-solv (which will take out the stains, but at a price). Happy New Year to all.

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Re: Brownie Points

posted at 1/2/2011 9:37 PM EST

Marie F

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Don't know what you get with the points. It would be nice to know and to receive something or just eliminate the points and we will continue to have a good time writing to each other through these questions.

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