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- Spring Gift Ideas Spring is here and now it is time to bring in the gifts to perk up those gloomy glares. After the long winter months, people often enjoy something new to bring in the cheers. Whether you are considering that gift for the yard, or else the gift of humor, spring...
6 Tips for Getting Your Lawn Ready for Winter Even though you may be done with mowing for the year, that doesn’t mean that your lawn doesn’t need more attention before winter strikes. Whether you live in a warm climate or a cold one, by taking the time to take care of your lawn before winter comes, you can...
The Suburban Garden Expirement A vegetable garden can be a great way to save some money and become more self sufficient. Not to mention they can bring their owners hours of "fun" in the yard. We have lived in our current home for almost three years now and we have never had the time...
Quick Green Reads For The Weekend Volume 114. Tomorrow is Taos Cleanup Day, and I will be out working for 4 hours in the morning to clean up trash around town. Of all the places I have lived, this is the single most littered town I have ever been in and it needs all the help we...
Best Home Improvements before Downsizing As baby boomers who are anticipating downsizing, we are thinking about home renovations or upgrades that make financial sense. We want to maximize the market appeal of our home without overspending. So I decided to do a little research in the area of home improvements and particularly their relative cost...- Teach Your Kids To Go Green. This is a guest post from Emily, who blogs at Remodeling This Life about living a simple and frugal life. She's a stay at home mom to 2 kids and enjoys teaching them about the value of living simply and responsibly. Many of us, as adults, have had to change...
Niche Blogging Creates Affiliate Profits Blogging is as hot as a white hot branding iron. So many people are making a full time living from their blogs these days, so it must be easy right? Well it can be...if you do it the right way. Now do not get scared or intimidated as this is...- What's Under Your Grill Whether you barbecue on a popularly priced grill or a top-of-the-line, stainless, multi-burner behemoth, there are some things that don't change. Sparks, spills, grease and flare-ups are inevitable when cooking and eating in your backyard, whether it involves feeding the family or entertaining a crowd. Outdoor living can cause serious damage to a patio, porch or deck in which you've made a substantial financial investment and perhaps devoted many hours of labor.
SA Music Industry on Twitter Last Updated: 28 June 2009 The South African music industry community is slowly waking up to the powers of internet marketing and starting to utilise the services that Twitter has to offer. By Following¹ these musicians on Twitter, you can read about their upcoming gigs and last minute cancellations...- New Complete Guide to Landscaping: Design, Plant, Build by Better Homes and Gardens If you want to increase the value of your home, one of the best ways to go about it is to have your home professional landscaped. However, this is pretty costly and many homeowners, especially those with green thumbs, like the satisfaction of being able to do it on their...
- Those are some expensive vegetables We're making our first tentative venture into the world of gardening by setting up a square foot garden. The principles seem easy enough: make a box, fill it with "Mel's mix", plant, water, weed, and viola, vegetables will appear. I hope it turns out to be that easy. My son...
- 10 things you can do for under a dollar Get back to your childhood roots with some of these summertime suggestions. 1. Buy a packet of balloons and have a water balloon fight. 2. Have a 3-legged race. 3. Star gaze. 4. Have cloud contests (stare up at the clouds and compete to see who can make up the...
- Setting Up House The following is a guest post from Kimber Chin (http://businessromance.com/) who writes romance novels based in the business world. She also blogs at http://www.nolimitsladies.com/. As a romance writer, I LOVE this time of year with so many couples getting married and buying homes. It makes me think back a decade...
- Link hopping: Boston fern edition I finally went and bought a Boston fern for our computer room yesterday. I'd been wanting one for months, but kept putting it off. First there were other priorities for our money, and then we went on a couple of vacations. (I didn't want one more thing for someone to...
Parallel Blogverse: How much do you know about the locals? Internet Irony: While the internet has the power to connect us to each other from opposite corners of the globe, it also has the power to isolate us from people doing things right in our own back yards. I was reading Rick's blog about Twitter "squeezing" yesterday and something in...
Sometimes I think we are all trying TOO hard... I can't imagine how well this site is doing. Well, I can. I have. I am right now. Coming off a launch of new software with tons of planning, programming, headaches, sales copy, videos, beta testing, then, finally, launching, someone sent me a site tonight that makes me go hmmmm......- Link hopping: Home improvement & energy saving changes edition It's taken quite a few years to get our house looking more like we want it. We've been actively working at ways to save energy in the process. One of the changes that we made that had the most immediate noticeable effect was switching to compact fluorescent light bulbs (CFLs)....
- Happy Christmas-Kwanzaa-Chanukkah-New Year Just a quick wish of happiness, health, wealth, prosperity, love and learning to every human being on this planet. If we all continue to remember that the cornerstone of business and the cornerstone of service are one and the same: See a Need; Fill a Need we can eventually turn...
- Does America Need to Wake Up Financially? I might not have mentioned it, but I'm in Los Angeles this week, staying at a swanky hotel called The Omni. (I'll tell you more about it after my stay, but it's essentially free.) They dropped off a copy of USA Today yesterday and for the first in months, I...
- Fesitval of Frugality #35 is up...save some money! The 35th FESTIVAL OF FRUGALITY is up over at Punny Money . My article about Consumer Debt was accepted into the festival. This week's listings were done by celebrities, and my post was reviewed by George Washington..I am so honored! Be sure to check out all the submissions to learn...
9/11 2008 I apologize for going off topic today. I went back and forth trying to decide whether I should write a 9/11 post. On the one hand it's important to remember what our country went through and to never forget those who perished and what we lost as a country. ...
President's Day Money Quotes In honor of President's day here are quotes from twelve of our esteemed leaders:All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit...- How do you know if you are making the right decision I can't answer this one, but it's a tough question. Thinking can get you into trouble. Too much introspection can be begloom-ing. (I really do like that word.) There have been several times in my life when I made a decision against the grain and acted on it. And sometimes...
A tragic and avoidable loss A retired couple lost $60,000 on the 3rd when they were robbed by young men posing as flower delivery men. $60,000. Their life savings. Their retirement money. All of it. Why? Because when the men looted their home, they discovered that the couple kept all their money in cash. (They...- Live Like A Millionaire in 2009 I have to say, I was so excited to read this post at SingleGuyMoney. One of my favorite personal finance books of all-time is “The Millionaire Next Door,” by Thomas J. Stanley and William D. Danko. In the book they detail their study of hundreds of millionaires throughout the United...
