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If you're looking for a relatively inexpensive way to add cabinets to a room, these cabinets are a great option. I think we've all seen television commercials and been to home improvement stores to get estimates of what new cabinetry would cost. It's expensive, and who has that kind of money these days? I actually have four cabinets from Woodgate in my picture. There are two 36"...

The house I live in was built in 1940. Until last fall it still sported the original windows; they were single panes of glass fitted in a wooden frame, and each window had six glass panes on the top half and six glass panes on the bottom half. I spent many years frustrated with my old windows. In the winter they were not only cold, but they also would condense on the inside because of the tempe...

I saw this humidifier at Lowe's and I had to have it, even though it was more expensive than what I usually pay for humidifiers. I have propane heat and it can get very dry at my house, so I usually buy a new humidifier each year. I have asthma and allergies, and one of my big offenders is mold. I usually don't keep a humidifier longer than a winter season because they are so hard to cl...

If I didn't live in an area where dial-up or HughesNet satellite internet were my ONLY two choices I'd have dumped HughesNet yesterday. I've been a customer since 2004. At first I liked it: it was much better than the dial-up I'd had since 1997, and thanks to my new wireless router everyone could be online at the same time. It was pricey at 79 dollars a month, but I thought it w...

I have had allergies as long as I can remember. I did four years of allergy shots, and I take a daily allergy medication. However, I still need something to help keep the dust and pet hair to a minimum inside my house.My mom bought me an Oreck air cleaner for my dorm room when I went off to college. It was great for the 70-year-old dorm I was living in. Now I have one in the living room, one in...

My Unibody MacBook Pro laptop is one of the thinnest notebooks around. Within a few weeks of buying it, however, I realized that I needed something to protect it from dents and scratches. I had a neoprene sleeve that I put it in when I carried it around in my backpack, but somehow I still managed to find a few blemishes around the edges of the aluminum shell. Speck Products offers a lot of acce...

I needed a new USB flash drive, so I went to Amazon and browsed for a while. I chose this one mostly because it had a good capacity (16GB) and it came in assorted colors. Before, I had a grey USB drive and most recently a black one. It was nice to be able to choose something more colorful. Available colors are cyan (blue), yellow and pink. Another nice feature is that there isn't a loose ca...

Most Beatles fans will recognize this black and white Rickenbacker guitar from the early days of the Fab Four. I joined a band when I was 16, and I needed an electric guitar to play onstage. I'd had my acoustic for almost three years and it was time to upgrade. My favorite band was the Beatles, and it was easy for me to decide what kind of guitar I wanted. It was 1998 when I bought this gu...

I have just recently started online banking, and I love it so far! I have a checking account with Wachovia, and when I found out that online banking and bill pay were free I signed up. With the rising cost of stamps paying bills online really does save me some money. I’ll take whatever I can save even if it’s a few dollars. So far I have paid my credit card bills online and my healt...

Tires are very important but often overlooked components of auto maintenance. Even the highest-rated performance vehicle can fail you if you have incorrect or worn-out tires. I drive a 4Runner when the weather is too bad for me to feel safe in my Mustang. Living in the mountains you can be caught off guard by snow or ice, and if that happens you don’t want to question the performance of y...

My current set of mattresses are a few years older than I am, and even though they were top-of-the line when they were purchased by my parents in 1980 I was looking to improve the quality of my sleep. I wasn’t ready to buy a new set of mattresses, so I started shopping around for mattress toppers. I found a 4-inch memory foam topper on overstock.com that was on sale and I took the plunge....

I hate this mailbox post. I can't believe I paid nearly 80 bucks for it, either. I went out to check my mail one day and my mailbox was lying on the ground. It was still attached to the log that had served as its post for several decades, but the log itself had been broken off at the ground level. I was mad that whoever had run into it hadn't fessed up, but I live in a very rural area a...

Honda's reputation is a good one: my parents bought this lawnmower and I use it to mow their yard and my own. This lawnmower is self-propelled, which is a great feature. I live in a mountainous area, and my one-acre yard is mostly on an incline. It is truly amazing how this one feature can make mowing the grass so much easier.This mower weighs 104 pounds, and the cutting width is 21 inches....

If you like big, fat pencils then this is the one for you. I've never been a person to gravitate towards the thin or skinny writing implements, and this is the most comfortable pencil I've ever used. My fourth grade teacher told me that I hold my pencil differently than most people do; I rest the end of it on my ring finger and put my index and middle fingers along the side and top of t...

This is a capable weed-eater. I began my first foray into lawn care this spring, and I was looking for a lightweight weed-eater to tackle the three-foot high weeds in my backyard. My regular lawn-maintenance guy decided not to return my calls, and like many people I was looking to save a little money if I could by doing it myself.It's not too heavy even for someone like me who's only fi...

I initially bought Dove deodorant when I had a coupon for it and I was starting to notice some razorburn under my arms. I've always heard that it's the most moisturizing deodorant you can buy, and I'd never tried it before. I went to the store and picked out the Sensitive Skin variety. It is a clear solid and it doesn't have much of a fragrance at all: a fresh, powdery-scent is ...

I bought this wardrobe to go in a bedroom that is in the basement of my house. Because my basement has concrete block walls, there is no closet at all in this bedroom. I was looking for an inexpensive way to store clothing without having to build a closet or simply hang closet shelving on the wall with nothing to protect the clothes from dust. Lowe's had a variety of similar wardrobes in di...

A few years ago, I was in school to be a lab tech. We had to buy scrubs in our school colors to wear to our clinical rotations at the hospital. As you may know, traditional scrubs are often not very attractive. I went to Wal-Mart and tried on some different styles, but almost all of them had v-necks (not good if you are busty: I would have had to wear an undershirt to be modest enough for a med...

I live in a functionally obsolete house. It was built in 1940, and let’s just say that modern comfort hadn’t quite been invented back then. I live at an elevation of around 4200 feet above sea level, and growing up in the 1980’s no one had air conditioning because we didn’t need it. Opening windows and turning on ceiling fans was more than enough to cool off the house, a...

As someone with asthma and year-round allergies, I'm always looking for something to help decrease my symptoms. I was first given Singulair in 2000, and I've taken it every day since then. At first it was only indicated for the prevention of asthma symptoms, but a few years ago I saw that it was being advertised for seasonal allergies as well. I noticed an immediate improvement in my sh...