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Home Buying

Safe, Quick House Closing Tips!

Tweet With the spring home selling season moving forward in earnest, perhaps you have already found a home that you like and have been approved for a mortgage. If that

Home Improvement Home Tips

Mulching For Beauty & Conservation

Tweet Garden beds all across the country are coming alive as the spring season advances. But that also means that weeds are sprouting alongside of flowers and watering will soon

Home Financing

Home Foreclosures Expected To Ramp Up

Tweet Despite throwing hundreds of billions if not trillions of dollars at the problem, the Obama administration will not be able to exert its increased influence over the financial marketplace

Commentary

The Tax Man Cometh!

Tweet If you’re like millions of Americans, today isn’t one of your favorite days. In fact, April 15th is downright distressing for many taxpayers as federal and state income taxes

Education Tips

How To Save Money On Large Appliances

Tweet Washing machines, dryers, dishwashers, stoves, ranges and refrigerators are each part of the modern home, contemporary appliances our great grandmothers would have loved to had on hand during their

Education Tips Fun Stuff Home Tips

Gardens Offer Beauty & Food Savings

Tweet Home gardening has been growing steadily as a hobby for a number of years, but if my observations at my local Sears gardening center are correct, the biggest growth

Fun Stuff

Is It Time To Plan A Yard Sale?

Tweet The current economic climate is casting a pall over family finances, but there is one surefire way you can pull in some much needed cash while clearing your home

Home Tips

A Child’s Bedroom: Imagine The Possibilities!

Tweet A child’s bedroom can be a disaster area or it can be well organized with everything put in its place. Our children’s bedrooms are smack in the middle of

Home Tips

You Can Save Money On Home Appliances

Tweet Ask most any homeowner what are some of the most important attributes of their home’s interior and you’ll get comments such as, “the vaulted ceilings in the living room”

Commentary

Why Your Local Business Closed Shop

Tweet Two years ago we purchased a pair of well made bicycles for our children, choosing to give our business to a local bike shop. Previously, we had made the

Home Financing

Your Mortgage Options? Never Better!

Tweet My, oh my how quickly things can change. No, the economy is still in the doldrums and with Congress and our new president on an unprecedented spending spree, there

Home Tips

You Can Choose A Polyethylene Shed!

Tweet I must admit that I am smitten. Smitten as in a recent visit to a local big box retailer which put me in front of the nicest looking shed

Home Tips

Smoke Detectors & Your Home

Tweet Because time changing has gone from every six months to intervals that are approximately four and eight months apart, that little reminder to check smoke detector has fallen to

Home Improvement Home Tips

Shed Organizing 101

Tweet When we moved into our current home five years ago, tucked into one corner of the backyard was an aged aluminum shed. Five years later, that shed is still

Home Tips

What Will Inflation Do To Soft Goods Prices?

Tweet This past February we posted a pair of articles about food safety — Managing Your Food Storage Space Wisely and Should You Stock Up On Groceries In Advance Of