As the green movement continues to gather steam, many homeowners are exploring ways to become environmentally conscious within their living spaces. Greening your home is not only a responsible thing to do, but it can also boost your home’s value when it comes time to sell. So you can have a positive impact on the planet while putting some extra [ Read More → ]
As the green movement continues to gather steam, many homeowners are exploring ways to become environmentally conscious within their living spaces. Greening your home is not only a responsible thing to do, but it can also boost your home’s value when it comes time to sell. So you can have a positive impact on the planet while putting some extra [ Read More → ]
In earlier times, windows and doors were not much better than open holes in the wall. To keep their homes reasonably comfortable in cold seasons, families kept windows and doors to a minimum. They were designed to bring useable daylight into the home, provide views to the outside and allow ventilation.
The average new house has more than 25 windows and doors, [ Read More → ]
Lately, there seem to be two things that have permeated society: the economy and the environment. While many Americans are struggling to find steady work, there has also been a rise in the awareness of environmental issues. Fortunately, going green and saving money go hand in hand. By taking some simple steps each week you can do your part in [ Read More → ]
Have you ever stopped and thought about how many boxes of tissues your family goes through in a year? Like most of us, that’s probably a large number. Whether it’s cold and flu season, or allergy season, it seems we never stop buying Kleenexes. Although boxed tissues aren’t generally too expensive it can add up to [ Read More → ]
Kill bugs with an old fashioned solution that is widely available and already in your house.
You wash your hands and dishes with this, and you probably didn’t know it kills bugs, too. This is a well known fact, but not often remembered, which I accidentally discovered as a kid. Most people waste a lot of money to buy [ Read More → ]
If 2011 produces anything close to the amounts of snow that most of the country experienced in 2010, figuring out how to best de-ice our roads and driveways seems to be a good topic for discussion.
In most parts of the world, the most commonly used, and certainly the least expensive, de-icing chemical is sodium chloride (or rock salt). Millions of [ Read More → ]
Have you ever read the back of the standard cleaners you use all over your house, office, car and various other places? With most of them, you cannot even pronounce the chemicals they contain much less know if those chemicals have long term toxic effects on your health and the health of your family and colleagues, not to mention the [ Read More → ]
Can you believe it is 2011 already? I’m not even sure where 2010 went!
As it goes with the beginning of every year, most of us take a few moments to think about our lives and consider the goals, large or small, we’d like to accomplish, and we set resolutions. While it seems that a great many of those resolutions involve [ Read More → ]
It was about 3:00am when I was startled awake by a bear that flew through the air and hit me on the head! In that moment, I wasn’t sure what had caused the assault as I was barely conscious. Then I realized my three year old had come into our bedroom with bears and blankets in tow. He realized he [ Read More → ]
Like much of the US and Europe, I live in an area that got quite a bit of snow over Christmas weekend. As such, I spent a few days at home without venturing about very much other than taking the kids sledding. Not a bad way to enjoy some unexpected downtime!
At any rate, during my snow induced captivity, I caught [ Read More → ]
