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Credit Card Savvy: ALWAYS Check Your Credit Card Statements
Categories: Money

This past week I was reminded of how important it is to ALWAYS check our credit card bills. Reading over my VISA statement I saw a charge for $1.98 from someone I didn’t recognize. I went to the website listed and definitely did NOT recognize it and didn’t authorize such a charge. You might be […]

Happy Labor Day 2020
Categories: At Home

Happy Labor Day 2020. The calendar and the temperatures say it’s still summer – but my heart says AUTUMN, AUTUMN, AUTUMN! Yeah! Fall is loaded with holidays and special days like Halloween and my life is better when the temps are cooler. The last two nights it has dropped down to the low 60s here […]

Finding The Best Binoculars For Your Situation: Part 4
Categories: At Home

In this last part of our series on binoculars, we start with military models, which many of us will never need, but you never know what situation you will find yourself in and far-vision is an absolute must in military maneuvers. Military binoculars  Different than any other military equipment, a military binocular is something that […]

Finding The Best Binoculars For Your Situation: Part 3
Categories: At Home

As mentioned in Parts 1 and 2 of this series on binoculars, there are a myriad of choices. Today we’ll discuss which binoculars to use when you’re wandering the galaxies. :-) Astronomy Binoculars  We all can’t be astronauts and we all can’t just get into a spaceship when we feel like getting closer to the […]

Finding The Best Binoculars For Your Situation: Part 2
Categories: At Home

Buying binoculars has everything to do with what you want to accomplish, as we mentioned in Part 1 of this series. Here are some more choices.  Canon binoculars  Canon, a trusted name in the optical technology industry, is known for their innovation with the image stabilizer technology used in their binoculars. For those people that have […]

29 Lemon Uses: Smart Ways To Use Lemon Juice and Lemon Essential Oil & Save Money
Categories: At Home

Lemons are a really useful fruit. They’re not just for lemonade and to squirt on fish – they have lots of uses around the house. Here are just a few of them and this is NOT an exhaustive list, but just our idea of really cool ways to use this bright yellow fruit. And don’t […]

Happy Memorial Day 2020
Categories: At Home

Happy Memorial Day 2020. It’s a strange day compared to the holiday of other years.  It’s the unofficial, emotional start of summer although that calendar event is officially several weeks away. And it’s a day to honor those brave men and women so that we might remain free. And then, there’s the irony of governments […]

Finding The Best Binoculars For Your Situation: Part 1
Categories: At Home

Talking about the ‘best’ binoculars is a loaded gun because the best binoculars depend on our situation. Since we’ve recently researched this subject, we’ve chosen to do a series of post of this fascinating (if you’re in the market :-) consumer area. Here are the ones we’ve found. Meade Binoculars  Meade binoculars are usually the […]

183 Cross Stitch Patterns of Watercolor Dogs: Dozens of Dog Breeds Stitched With DMC Floss
Categories: Mixed Bag

We are thrilled to have a new collection of cross stitch patterns of dogs. They are adorable watercolor portraits of dogs and some of them are so life-like that we wouldn’t be surprised if they suddenly began barking. Look at these cutie pies!  You can instantly download all of them or have a DVD or […]

Gratitude Training: A 30 Day Experiment In Gratitude Exercises, Day 3
Categories: Self Help

We’re back on Day 3 of my gratitude training experiment. Pam Grout suggests playing a different gratitude game every day and yesterday I mentioned a game I like called “deem it fun” (see yesterday’s gratitude entry). I like that game so much that I’m sticking with it for a while – but with a twist. […]