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Frugal Ideas To Help Your Home Sell We recently put our home on the market to sell. Man, do we have a lot to do to get the place in ship shape! We have been busy for the past couple of weeks doing what we could to make the place look more appealing to a potential...- I've Come Home To No Electricity! Nothing ever works as it should do does it? I came home from work today to find that we had no electricity. A quick check showed that we had electricity with the exception of the kitchen and the dining room which therefore meant that we had not had not had...
- It's Easy to Let Things Slip Three years from now when I look back on finishing our basement, I'm probably going to say it was a financial mistake. What was originally going to be a $9,000 project has easily cost us at least $13,000 if not more. The careful planning and budgeting we set up before...
Is Wreckovating Worth It? If you are considering changing your home, it is important to decide if “wreck-o-vating” or the process of completely tearing apart a room and redoing it entirely is worth the effort. There are many opponents to wreckovating, but in some cases, this style of renovating may be necessary. Here is...- Friday Link Love - Gardening Weekend Edition After talking about it for so long, I'm actually going to start my garden this weekend. The ties making up the border are in place, I've sprayed Round-Up on the grass on the inside, and I'll go tomorrow and load up my truck with top soil and plants. Finally, the...
- Why Renting is Right for Us Right Now From the moment the complex manager opened the door, I've been in love with our little apartment.
- How to save money cleaning your carpet Burn them. Or rip them out.Or hire a professional cleaner.Counterintuitive? Money Dummy confessed to hiring a professional carpet cleaning service instead of renting a cleaner and sweating through the cleaning. It sounded like the professionals were the more expensive option per clean, but the results were much, much better.From our...
- How Credit Card Companies Apply Your Payments Ever wondered how payments to your credit card are applied? It's all spelled out in the payment allocation provision of your credit card agreement. Generally, this is within a section labeled something like "Payments" or "Making Payments." From my Capital One card agreement: We may allocate payments and other credits...
Paying Off Your Credit Cards -- PSA via Mrs. Micah's Dad So my Dad and I were discussing credit card stuff (he's in the business). He made a very important point which I haven't heard discussed much. So here's my public service announcement: The credit card company will pay off your lowest interest balance first with the money you send in....
The Best Fix-Its Under $500 One of the best ways to save money is to utilize easy to implement and cheap repairs and improvements around the house. These improvements will improve the value of the house and fix some of the problems that may be plaguing it. So here is a list of the best...
Kep sur Mer I wake up to a glorious day in Phnom Penh this morning. The sky is clear blue and there's a stiff breeze snapping the flags of the nations along the quayside to full attention. I walk down to the FCC for a light breakfast. It's the perfect spot for a...
creepy and hatboy - the supervillain convention “behold, my codpiece,” i boomed. “with it i control the supreme powers of much animal-magnetistic-sexy which even now converge on an unsuspecting world. in just ten short days, my enigmatic partner of much-super-evil and i will have this feeble world in our clenched fists of horror!” i clenched my fist for them. hatboy fiddled with his sporran. “remember our faces, for within the fortnight, you will know them well, because they’ll be stamped on all your glittery pennies and pounds. remember our names, for within the fortnight, you will know them well, as they will be staple-gunned to your foreheads of much-info-forgetty!”- Stress Is One Of The Biggest Killers As the title of this post say stress is one of the biggest killers to both fish and corals in the home marine aquarium. Next to this will probably be bad maintenance and mis-management of the aquarium and last but not least will probably be laziness. I remember as a...
- 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)....
- The Cold Is Coming..... It is that time of year again where the climate is starting to change to the colder type. It is not the type of weather I personally am a fan of. I like warm weather where time can be spent in the garden, have barbeques, play with the family etc...
Buri Gallery Hotel, Chiang Mai With Monday the 20th declared a special holiday so Thais could vote on the new constitution, I decided to escape to Chiang Mai for a long weekend to check on some things for an up-coming addition to AsiaForVisitors.com. More on that later, but for the purposes of this trip, the...- Are We Creating A Home Or A Habitat? At first glance it seems a strange question to be asked. We’re concerned with marine aquariums, so what is meant by ‘home’ and ‘habitat’? It’s pretty obvious that whether the marine aquarium is a reef or fish only system there’s going to be livestock in it. So we need to...
- How Do You Transport Aquarium Fish? Obtaining fish from the LFS (local fish shop) is really exciting. Maybe the aquarium is being initially stocked, or perhaps an ‘extra’ is being added (I hope that this doesn’t mean overstocking!). Whatever the reason for the purchase, the fish need to be taken to the aquarist’s home. The fish...
- The Banded Coral Shrimp There are a few shrimps that find favour with reef aquarists. Two favourites are the cleaner shrimps Lysmata amboinensis and Lysmata grabhami. Another is the banded coral shrimp, often called the banded boxing shrimp, properly called Stenopus hispidus. Have a look: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Stenopus_hispidus_1.jpg Where the common name comes from is partly...
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creepy and hatboy - someone's killing pizza delivery drivers “i don’t see why they don’t deliver to us, anyway. we’re valued customers. they said so in the pamphlets they handed out last fortnight!”
“they did. send a few drivers, i mean. apparently one went missing last night, which was why we didn’t get our vegetarian with triple pineapple.”
“i wondered about that.”
- Insurance You Need To Own To Protect Your Future We all know someone who didn't have health insurance, got hurt, and now is dealing with the tremendous burden of huge medical bills. Insurance is a boring subject. This is not going to be a hugely entertaining article, but it's a very important subject. Insurance can either rip you off...
- Stay Flexible and become a Virtual Agent at Home Working from home seems to be many people’s dream. To no longer have to deal with the long commute and demanding bosses seems like a slice of heaven. They key is finding out what type of work you can do from home. By knowing what skills you have to offer,...
- Resolution Secrets Revealed: Show Us Your Teats. My greatest New Year's resolution victory had to have been back in 2001 when I vowed to quit smoking once and for all. I haven't had a puff since. Yes I'm gloating - it's no easy task. Would you like to know how I did it? Should I share my...
How to Keep Home Repair Costs Down There is nothing that hits the wallet as hard as when you have a home improvement project. The most important thing on the home owner's mind is how to minimize the costs of the project. The balance that needs to be maintained is how to reduce the cost of a...-
creepy and hatboy - attack of the glossy magazine babes from the 14th dimension one of them lunged at me, her arms held outward, her fingernails glinting green. my mind screamed “poison!” and i ducked her slivered claws, and reacted with a swift fist to her spleen. she gasped and rolled on the ground. i warned her friends of the price of messing with justice and they seemed to pay attention.
for about a nanosecond.
My Financial Epiphany: Change to Survive For many in the Christian church, today - January 6 - is celebrated as the Feast of the Epiphany, commemorating the arrival of the Magi who traveled a great distance to visit and offer gifts to the baby Jesus in Bethlehem. In secular terms, an "epiphany" is a sudden perception or insight...- You Gotta Make Him Work for the Cookie The comedian Steve Harvey has written a bestseller called Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man. He says it's his first project ever that isn't about the money: "This book right here I did purely to empower women." He was inspired to write it after his father-in-law asked his...
- Manufacturers: Recording King In the 1930's, Recording King was known for their quality banjos and guitars at reasonable prices. This was especially important at the time because the United States was stuck in the middle of the Great Depression. The instruments were included in the Montgomery Ward catalog and delivered right to people's...
- Antique Chinese Parrot Antiques -> Asian -> Chinese If you are interested in a unique Asian collectible that is sure to get plenty of discussions going, antique Chinese parrots are an excellent choice. These delightful decorative collectibles come in many different shapes and styles and many are vibrantly colored and well designed. Most...
- Home I'm home now, preparing for Grandad's funeral and generally keeping the family together (yeah right!!!)....the atmosphere is a little strange (but good), there's a lot of sym-path-eeeee from everyone here which is nice (but does seem a little medieval in a way - explanation by request)...anyway we're about to drive...
