Browsing the blog archives for March, 2008

Martha

I stumbled across a website that I NEVER thought I would enjoy but I find myself there at least once a week and usually more often than that. Back in the day, I was not a Martha Stewart fan. She was all about fussiness in the home and home is the last place I wanted [...]

Household Plastics

If you are tossing any of these into your regular trash bin, you are cheating the recycling companies out of valuable recyclable materials: snack food packaging cereal box liners non carbonated drink bottles margarine tubs, deli food containers whipped toppings containers detergent bottles milk jugs garbage containers water pipes (plumbing) bleach bottles household cleansers bottles [...]

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Stopping Junk Mail

There are several things you can do to stop and prevent the onslaught of junk mail into your mailbox. 1. Get off Lists – go to the website for the Direct Marketing Association, dmachoice.org and click on “Remove my name from those lists.” This is free, takes about 4 months to see the full impact [...]

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Selling Your Home

It’s not news that the U. S. housing market is in serious trouble. For the most part, the trouble is with people who agreed to a mortgage that would adjust to a higher rate under the premise that everything would go their way and they would be earning more income to afford the higher rate, [...]

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No Jellybeans

I could not wait to go to the store yesterday and buy the leftover Easter candy at half price! With no little kids in the house, there was no reason to buy the candy before Easter Sunday. I went to Target to buy new socks and check out what candy they had left. I was [...]