I do whatever I can not to waste water. Accordingly I hate pre-rinsing dishes by hand or even using the rinse cycle of my dishwasher. The plain fact is that this major kitchen appliance uses up to twenty gallons of water per load–full or not. Glad I was given Finish Quantumatic to review. Quantumatic is [...]
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Filtrete Helps With Healthy Housekeeping
Housekeeping, yuk. I like being a woman, wife, mother, worker but housekeeper NOT. I will do anything I can to make it easier and minimize time spent. I want a clean and healthy home. Bet you feel the same way. I do my best to keep dust mites, pollen, and dander out, but there is [...]
Rooms Change With Time, As Do People
Years ago my boys set up a gym in the back room. They equipped it with weights, bicycle, a jogging machine, and the equivalent of a Nordictrack audiostrider 990 pro. Ah, the testosterone that filled the room! The next craze was gaming. In went ping pong table, pool table, card table, and home-theater projection television. [...]
Handy Hubby
Hubby is again doing sweat labor in the kitchen–refinishing and refacing cabinets. He is a real handyman. Given enough time, everything must be repaired or replaced. He is even a weatherization training expert. He does everything–siding, insulation, doors, windows. I once again visited the Carousel of Progress, initially a featured attraction at the News York [...]
Operation Rec Room
Way back in 1981 hubby decided to finish the back room out by the pool. It was going to become the rec room (no, not wreck room) for the family. Paneling, electricity carpeting, blinds in place, we were about to furnish it when daughter and hubby moved in there. Over the years middle son took [...]
Empty Nest – Again
My youngest moved out again. Sometimes I think our front door is a revolving one. His bedroom is empty. Hubby wants to leave it like that. Me I want to move on, and, to me, furnishing it is the way to begin. Years ago the downstairs room was meant to be a large rec room, [...]
Meet The Installer’s Wife
You have heard the jokes about the plumber’s wife whose faucet always dripped. Now I want to introduce you to one about the installer’s wife namely me. Hubby is an installer–satellite dishes, computers, televisions, home entertainment systems, and more. I’ve seen his installations, clean jobs with no exposed wiring as opposed to cat 6 cables [...]
