My husband and I are very heavy smokers. We recently had an incident where one of us somehow set a trash can on fire with some of our cigarette ashes. We aren’t idiots, but something happened to make it catch on fire. Being very safety oriented people, and …

My husband and I were both raised in the country. A big part of both of our lives was going fishing. We try to go every weekend if the weather is good. We shop for tackle and bait and other goodies at a store about two blocks away …

Sometimes a friend of the family or a relative will get sick. I try to cheer them up by giving them fruit baskets. I found a place called Dotson’s Produce located in Tullahoma that sells the most beautiful fruit baskets.
Dotson’s Produce doesn’t just sell fruit baskets, …

A major part of owning a home is to keep the yard in good order. I don’t do the yard work, besides a little gardening, my husband does. He asked me yesterday to go buy a part for our lawnmower because he had things to do. He gave …

When we moved to Tennessee, we bought a house on property that wasn’t surrounded by fence. We didn’t even think about the fact that we had 4 dogs. When we first got here, we just let the dogs outside to roam and do their business. We got a …

Recently we had a door of ours damaged during a storm. We went to all of the usual places to check out the doors they offered. All of them were overpriced and really ugly designs. Finally, one of our friends suggested we try Manchester Building Supply Inc. I …

When I first moved to Tennessee, I didn’t have a clue who to call to get my electricity cut on. I am from Alabama, and am used to dealing with Alabama Power. When I looked in the phone book, I looked under Tennessee Power and didn’t see anything. …

When you run your own business, the most important thing is advertising. One form of advertising is business cards. You can hand them out to people and you can leave them in convenience stores and other places. Business cards are a great way to advertise. I used Mcmurr’s …

As I have stated before, my husband runs his own business from home. You can imagine how important it is that he has a copy machine in his office. He is constantly having to make copies of important business documents. I get to do all of his supply …

In conjunction with McMillian’s Community Care Home, McMillian’s Boarding Home, Inc. is housing for the low-income, disabled persons living anywhere within and surrounding Richland County. This is an eight bedroom living facility, equipped with kitchen, dining area, laundry facility, front and back deck, covered front porch, handicapped ramp, and …

Shopping for a new car is suppose to be a fun, exciting experince. Suppose to be is the crucial phrase. This did not happen for me when I looked for a vehicle at Satterlee Motor Company in Marion, Iowa.
I was not impressed at all with how …

There is one place in my small town where a smoker can find cigarettes at a bargain, and that is at Mapco Express, located at 1001 North Locust Avenue here in Lawrenceburg, Tennessee. Since I am a penny pincher, I smoke an off-brand cigarette called Sonoma. They are much …

Falvo’s Sports Cards in my opinion is one of the most organized hobby shops in the western Pennsylvania area. The shop is packed with thousands of cards. The prices are great. The owner is friendly and has a excellent knowledge about the product he sells. He is also …

Celectricon Ltd, is a small hardware store that deals with welding and plumbing supplies. They are not in any way electrical. I do not have an overall problem with that fact but I do have a problem with their supervisor. The supervisor of the store needs some Customer Service …

I usually do most of my grocery shopping at Save-A-Lot - which is located at 254 E. Gaines Street in Lawrenceburg, Tennessee - mainly because they prices are lower, and I can get more for my money, and these days, with the ridiculously high fuel costs, and everything becoming …

Busy Bee Market is located at 900 Buffalo Road in Lawrenceburg, Tennessee, which is just down the road from where I live, and I have been a customer for many years. At least up until recently, when it was bought by Indians. I want to stop right here and …

I recently bought a computer. It stopped working properly and my son wasn’t able to help me fix it. I found a wonderful little computer repair shop here in Tullahoma called Antique Geek.
Antique Geek had a staff that was perfect for my needs. I don’t know anything …

My son is a computer geek. As his mother, I get to pay for all the computer related things he buys. I don’t mind because it makes him happy. He has a favorite place in Shelbyville that he likes to shop at for his computer needs. It is …

My mother had a very odd collection. She liked to collect clocks. Mostly miniature clocks. She took me with her shopping for clocks several times. She shopped at a place called Northside Clocks in Manchester.
When I went with her for the first time to shop for miniature …

My husband runs his own business so it is very important for him to always look his best. He has to have alot of clothes dry cleaned because he wears alot of suits. If you are in the Tullahoma area, I want to tell you about the dry …

I am a heavy smoker so it’s a treat for me when I can find a store that sells tobacco products at discount prices. I walked into Discount Tobacco Outlet in Manchester one day out of curiousity. I was tired of paying high prices for cigarettes at convenience stores.
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I have mixed feelings about this facility, so I’ll start off with the bad first.
I purchased a pre-owned bike from the facility. It was clearly not inspected, as the clutch went out only 600 miles after owning it. The parts and labor were at my expense, and the labor …

Great guys, great prices on parts, good quality used bikes. I traded my Suzuki SV650 for a Harley Dyna Super Glide, and couldn’t be more satisfied. I have owned the bike now for about a month, and continue to return for aftermarket parts. As a customer, you can expect …

My daughter just recently turned 16 years old and she wanted a huge birthday party. I am sure you know how it is for girls turning sweet 16, but I didn’t have a clue how I was going to manage it all. I needed a place to supply me …

When you need furniture or appliances and you simply don’t have the resources to purchase the needed items, what can you do? You will probably end up at a thrift store, or a rent to own type business.
I currently have a rental at Aaron’s Rental Center in Logan, Ohio. …

My father recently passed away, and it was a very hard time for me. When someone you love passes away, it is so hard to understand, hard to deal with. Yet so much is expected of you at one time. On top of dealing with the death, you …

When my husband and I recently moved from one home to another, the size of the new house was smaller then the size of the old house. We had alot of stuff that we knew wouldn’t fit in our new home but we didn’t want to get rid …

My husband and I were questioning whether or not it would be better for us to buy new furniture outright or get rent-to-own furniture, that might be of a better quality and allow us to pay over time. We had seen all of the commercials about Rent-a-Center and …

My husband and I recently purchased carpet for our new home. If you have carpet then you know you have to have a way to clean your carpet. We have several indoor pets and children, so it’s not as easy to clean our carpet as it would be …

Let me just start off by saying that I hate hardwood floors because when I get out of bed in the morning, the wood is cold on my feet and makes it unpleasant for me to walk around. Having said that , when my family and I moved …

My monster-in-laws birthday was coming up and she had been reminding me for a month of all of my past failed attempts to get her the perfect gift. The closest I had ever gotten to a gift that she did not turn her nose …

We have a rather old house and with the rising cost of energy with the deregulation of Baltimore Gas and Electric we have taken measures to assure that we have the best efficiency from all our gas and electric needs. We hire Dianmond Point Duct Cleaning to come …

We have a lot of trees on our property and we don’t always have the time to go out and prune them and maintain them they way we should . I have been using this tree service for years and they have always done a excellant job. …

We had a problem a while back our water heater decided that it was going to leak all over the floor. This happened on a Saturday evening around five in the afternoon. I had just come home from grocery shopping when I found this puddle extending into …

My husband got ambitous last summer and decided that he was going to lay out a garden for us. We did not have a tiller of our own at that time and the ground had to be turned in order to put the vegtable garden in. I …

Bo’s Place is a local candle shop in Tullahoma. If you collect candles, then you will know how important it is to be able to shop for candles in an actual store as opposed to a huge chain store. The chain stores are nice, but they often carry the …

My husband and I like to travel alot. When we hit the age of retirement, we decided to buy an RV so we could take road trips to wherever we felt like going.
We visited Southern RV Center in Tullahoma, and I was immediately impressed. The reason I …

I am sure we all remember our first bicycle. When it came time for me to buy my son his first bicycle, I could only find one shop in my area. It was called Woody’s Bicycle and it was located in Winchester. I am a very safety concerned parent …

I am sure many of you know what it is like to be hit by the remodeling bug. You have a bathroom or a kitchen that you just don’t like how it looks. Well this happened to me with our bathroom. The shower and bathtub just were not big …

Haircrafters in Manchester is my normal barber. I have been using them for about 4 years now and I have never had a bad experience. They are close to where I live so that is a plus. They always do good work. I can show them a picture of …

We just recently moved to the Manchester area. The reason we moved here was because my husband wanted to try to run his business from here. He had alot of success here a few years back and wanted to try again. Well the first thing anyone who has a …

You wouldn’t ordinarily think that giving flowers would cheer someone up when it comes to a funeral, but when my uncle died a few months ago it did. I went to Bruce’s Florist in Manchester to look for flowers appropriate for the occasion. Having never been to a funeral …

As much as I hate to say it , most of us have had to bail someone out of jail at one point or another in our lives. My first experience with having to bail someone out happened when apparently my son got a little too drunk for his …

Have you ever had to have a repair done on your car and worried that it would cost too much? If you have then I am going to recommend Shelton Auto Body Repair to you. I am very thorough when it comes to trying to save money, so when …

My daughter’s mother-in-law recently gave her a 60 gallon aquarium, so she was on the hunt for some fish to put in it. She decided to stop by and ask me if I wanted to go with her to the local pet store and help her pick out some …

Music has always been a huge part of my life, and I enjoy collecting music paraphernalia such as band t-shirts, posters, tapestries and CD box-sets. But living in a small town like Lawrenceburg, Tennessee makes it difficult to find such items. However, several years ago, an exciting place called …

The AARP is an advocacy group for Americans age 50 years-old and over. My husband and I are now both members and are grateful for the privilege. I would encourage anybody who considers themselves to be a “baby boomer” to join this helpful, informative and dedicated organization. For …

If you are into sales, then SMC is the way to go. It offers several different ways to make money, just by selling items out of catalogs. I paid for my membership three years ago, and although I have never really sold much, the idea behind the program is …

My son worked for a company called Vigiliant Security in Maryland. Recently he had to be taken to the hospital because of kidney stones.
The owner of Vigilant security called the EMS in Howard County and an ambulance came and took him to the hospital. We spent …

Renee Meyer Dean Photography is located in Harlem, GA. She takes all kinds of photographs at a fairly reasonable price.
I used her services for both of my boys’ senior pictures. They were really great. I liked that she was close to my location, that she took pictures that I …