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Your Obligations May Not End With A Short Sale

Tweet For most Americans, these are certainly challenging times. Specifically, for the majority of people alive today, they have no remembrance of the last major recession, the sharp downturn of

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Law of Attraction: For the Birds!

Tweet Plenty of people in our neighborhood are working diligently to shape up their properties this season. Hard work done now can reap terrific benefits later this summer, making lawn

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Garden Edging For The Perfect Lawn!

Tweet When I purchased my first house many years ago, I struggled to keep the lawn out of the garden and vice versa. Grass frequently invaded territory occupied by the

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You Can Repair Your Garden Hose

Tweet Mention to someone that you’re repairing  a garden hose and you’ll probably get a “why bother?” reply. After all, when it comes to stuff you own around the home,

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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”

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Invigorate Your Yard With A Garden Path

Tweet When I was a teenager, my town had a volunteer organization – Youth Employment Services (YES) – which helped local youth find temporary work with homeowners and small businesses.