Summer is nearly here and I can sure feel it when doing something physical like banging on plastic drums. We recently replaced our curtains with some thicker, darker colored ones to help keep the bright sun off the TV. The downside of this is that the living gets really hot in the afternoon/evening [...]
I had to go digging around in the basement for something the other day, through some boxes that haven’t been touched since we moved in over 3 years ago, and I had an unpleasant discovery. Mold. It seems that one corner of the basement had a bit of a leak sometime since we [...]
Spring is shaping up nicely around here and a couple of days have even felt like summer already with temperatures over 20C. We had a small deck built onto the house about 2 years ago but so far we have yet to get any furniture for it. Or a BBQ. This summer [...]
I’ve been looking into getting new bathroom faucets for the sink. The one we have at the moment is one of those jobbies that only has one control and you turn it either left or right to get hot or cold water. Now that the kid is old enough to use the washroom [...]
The faucet in our bathtub is one of those safety rigs, it can only be turned up so far on the hot water side. While this is fine in the summer, it’s no good in the winter. When the cold water in the taps gets even colder, the hot water stays the same [...]
Just 1 year of payments to go and it’ll be mine completely. It feels like I’ve been paying for it forever already even though it’s only been 4 years. We made the mistake of leasing our first car for 3 years instead of just buying it outright. When the lease came up, [...]
About a year ago we decided to switch most of our light bulbs over to those mini-fluorescent ones since they use a lot less power, give off nearly the same amount of light and are supposed to last a lot longer. In some rooms we seem to blow a regular 60w bulb every couple [...]
The guys I’m renting my store from are also in the insurance business, providing home, business and car insurance. I used to get all 3 from them, but found that every year my premiums seemed to be creeping upwards. A customer/friend of ours was reminding me one day that he also sells insurance, [...]
I hate moving, and I’m sure most people feel the same way I do. Packing and unpacking, moving heavy furniture, cleaning both the old house and the new one, changing addresses and the list goes on and on. Thankfully, hiring professional movers can relieve some of the stress associated with moving and the [...]
For the home chefs out there that are just a little too rigid when following a recipe, the digital kitchen scale will make sure you’ve got just the right amount of meat measured out (or anything else that needs a certain weight of ingredients). I normally just buy whichever package is closest to what [...]
Even more drug busts around here lately, last week half a dozen people got arrested and brought in on charges of traffiking, possession and other things. It’s a shame really, this is generally such a peaceful little town, but it seems like more and more often there are people in need of addiction treatment. [...]
For the first couple of weeks while I had my XBox 360 in the living room I had to keep switching the network cable back and forth between the old XBox and the new 360. I wish the 360 had built in wireless like the Wii and the PS3 (hell, even the PSP and [...]
Most people these days can do without a checking account, it’s so much easier to keep a savings account and just use a debit or credit card when making purchases whether you’re in a store or shopping online. A lot of stores won’t even accept personal checks anymore anyway, which makes them really only [...]
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