Archive for the ‘Home and Garden’ Category

Reusing paper towels?! Hmmmm …

Monday, January 16th, 2012

We don't watch a whole lot of TV -- and we only have basic cable anyway -- so I'm not a regular watcher of Extreme Cheapskates on TLC.  The first time I had heard of the show was through a video on MSN.com. This particular one-minute clip features four extreme cheapskate ...

Keep your house from going up in flames — and reduce your electric bill

Tuesday, August 16th, 2011

Our clothes dryer had been not doing its job for the past few months.  It would take a couple of cycles to get the clothes passably dry.  It wasn't like this when we first bought the dryer. We checked the parts we could see first.  We were regularly cleaning out the ...