Trying to save money has led me to begin bringing my lunch to work every day, not just a few times a week. I try to make it interesting, and alternate leftovers, sandwiches and soup so I don’t get bored, and I also pack a variety of more or …

I think this vacuum cleaner is excellent value for money and certainly copes with picking up all the dog hairs from my carpet, so it has a good power to it. I bought mine from Argos for about £70 but I now see from the website that the …

My vacuum cleaner broke down a while back, and with money being a bit hard to come by, my parents decided to help me out and bought me one. My mother swears by the brand of vacuum cleaner she uses (Vax), so she naturally decided to buy me this …

I’ve been looking at these aprons in the kitchen section of World Market for months, and finally decided to get one because I’m actually at the point where I need an apron. I’ve been cooking a lot for my boyfriend lately, and I’ve already ruined a couple of my …

I was shopping at Walmart in the kitchen section when I cam across this three piece Anchor Hocking Measuring Cup Set. I wasn’t really sure why anyone would need that many measuring cups, but after thinking about it a moment, I thought that it was actually a very good …

I am a huge Clorox fan and it is a staple in my efforts to sanitize and disinfect my home. One product by Clorox that I use on a regular basis is Clorox Automatic Toilet Bowl Cleaner. It is a big round blue tablet of Clorox cleaner …

I have a day care in my home, and I have some older children as well as two babies. I have a gate/playpen type product that I get a lot of use out of in the home and outside. When I saw this product at the store …

During the summer time it can get really really hot where I live. There is no centralized air in my apartment and the swamp cooler just doesn’t do it all of the time. I never really understood why people wouldn’t want to build centralized air conditioner’s in a desert area. …

Samsung Vacuum Cleaner SC5660 is light and easy to operate making it one of the better vacuum cleaners out there. The weight barely exceeds 4 kg, it’s easy to maneuver around the room, and most importantly in comparison to my previous vacuum cleaner, Samsung sc5660 is rather quiet. Additionally, …

The first year that I cooked a turkey for Thanksgiving dinner by myself we had went to a friend�s house. Originally I was going to help Paul�s mom cook but when she called and said she was too sick to make it that meant I had to do …

Medical authorities, nutritionists, dietitians and all manner of people have been urging us to drink lots of water: plain water. We know the benefits, but most of us prefer to add flavor of some kind.
Our water supply is reasonably good quality. I find it compares very favorably with …

I am very particular in taking care of my clothes. I’ve developed profound respect for clothes since I was young, and it’s important for me that my clothes are equally as wrinkle-free as I am well-dressed. Every weekend, I pack my clothes to the dry-cleaners, but it …

I love my Black and Decker Smart Brew Coffee Maker. I have had this coffee maker for over two years and have not had a single problem with it. It is a twelve cup capacity coffee maker and I like how it looks on my kitchen counter. …

I just bought a bottle of this the other night when I was out doing a bit of shopping in my local supermarket. I had just run out of washing up liquid and although I don’t use it all that much since I have a dishwasher and only wash …

I bought this product as an air and carpet sanitizer as a corner of my matchbox sized home had a nasty musty smell. As a rule, I don’t like air fresheners and their ilk. The chemically smell that many have, I find a little unsettling. And …

I decided to throw a baby shower in honor of my friend’s impending delivery. While I knew how I wanted to decorate for it immediately, I wasn’t sure what kinds of foods to include or if I should attempt to prepare them myself since there was already …

I purchased the Century Novelty Five Foot Happy New Year Fringe Banner last year for around two dollars, I believe. It’s still available this year as it doesn’t have a specific year attached to it. I bought it last year and used it for one year, but I’m not …

I am allergic to most laundry detergents and dryer sheet products. It took a lot of time, effort, pain, and research to find my current products that work for me. I have known for over twenty years that bleach is a no no for me. If …

Whenever I do my cleaning I usually use sponges, but sometimes get tired of those. Recently I have tried a few different scrubbers and cloths to use in the kitchen and bathroom. One item that I though worked pretty decently was the Go Clean Microfiber Wash Mitts. I saw …

I go through hair dryers pretty quickly because I use them so much and they always seem to wear out after a short time. I like to keep at least one back-up hair dryer in the house in case my regular one breaks unexpectedly. My hair is …

I was very disappointed recently when my Bodum “Mousse” milk frother packed up on me after just a few months of use. I did entertain the idea of buying another one as it did a great job: for £20 it was a stylish kitchen accessory which became essential …

I wanted to find a storage shed for extra space but I didn’t want to pay a lot of money and I didn’t want one that would be a lot of hassle to put together. I found this one at Lowe’s and I have to say that it’s …

As the woman of the house, I find myself spending a lot more time cooking. Growing up I was never really the cooking type, but have found joy in creating dishes and watching people enjoy them. I spend a lot of my time cooking and feel it is important …

I could not believe that three (3) months after typhoon Ondoy/Ketsana brought thirty (30) feet of muddied water to my place there was still so much dust that gathered everyday. We had to sweep the floor and dust the house every few hours, and the worst part was that …

KitchenAid Komen Foundation Artisan Series 5-Quart Mixer in Pink has changed how I think about mixing, baking, and just being in my kitchen. Some people might ask, “Why would I want to spend $200 USD on a mixer?” I used to think that same thing myself. However recently I …

Home maintenance is one of the essential day to day activities, faced by all individuals. When you think of maintenance, you can jolt down lot of activities, one major activity would be carpet cleaning, many of my friends pay lump sum amount for cleaning their carpet, if a female …

Glade Clean Linen is one of my favorite aerosol air fresheners on the market, I feel that if your home is stinky, it is dirty. When I have completed my daily house cleaning, I give my house a walk thru with a can of Glade aerosol air freshener, and …

Wrong measurement of ingredients will not make a perfect taste of food so a measuring cup is an important tool in my kitchen. I remember one time when my cake was not baked to perfection because my plastic measuring cup was broken and had no recourse but to …

I bought my first Food Processor all excited. I wanted to try to make a whole range of fruity drinks and for the first time in a long while I was actually looking forward to getting in to my kitchen to create some yummy foods and drinks.
The Breville Kitchen …

After seeing the As Seen On TV commercial, I thought the Seat Saver Sofa is a must buy. When I first heard the name, I thought that this product would somehow always save me a seat on the sofa, but it turned out I was mistaken. Instead, it did …

I purchased my very first home a few years ago and I use Comet with Bleach to clean and deodorize most surfaces in the home including my appliances because of Comet’s promises to remove tough stains without scratching the surface.
Comet is an all purpose cleaner that is safe to …

This cloth certainly works in helping to clean off the delicate surfaces of DVDs and CDs, but it doesn’t work quite as well the Allsop CD and DVD FastWipes. I think it’s probably due to the Allsop CD and DVD FastWipes get used once and are then thrown away …

Clean air is a growing concern where I live. A tall apartment has been built next door, isolating my bedroom, the rear end of the house, into a kind of dungeon. Cold, gray concrete walls have replaced the view outside my window. With little sunlight passing …

The Westinghouse Microwave WST3503 is a great little microwave. I first discovered this while looking through a catalog. I then did a lot of research on it, and I saw it had a lot of positive reviews. It went on sale for a great price, and …

I’ve had some issues with my bathroom ever since I moved in, and the one thing I hate about it is that the bathtub itself has such hard water stains on it, that have apparently built up over several years before we moved in to this place. Een some …

This stuff is very handy. I find it easy to use, and it comes in several sizes - a large one you can keep in your bathroom, medium ones, and very small ones that actually come in packs of 6.
This is a moisturizing hand sanitizer. You just drop a …

The Power 2 Pet hoover is a master piece in hoovers, I have recently got mine and am sooo impressed with it.
I have 2 boxers dogs and a cat and believe me the hair I collect on a daily basis is astounding But not now, having used this machine …

I originally bought the Braun Oral B electic toothbrush when I had problems with my wrist and was having difficulty brushing my teeth with a convential toothbrush.  I am so glad I did, and since then have not gone back to a conventional toothbrush.
The charging unit is very small. …

I consider myself to be a do it yourselfer so I’m always doing a lot of repair work on my car so I decided to purchase this light. I really love this thing because it’s easy to use and it doesn’t cause too much of a hassle when …

The Evriholder Fanny Furniture Dusting and Polishing Glove cost me under five dollars. I don’t recall how much it cost me precisely because I’ve owned it for at least seven or eight months now. It’s a housewares item that’s still available for purchase today though and it’s one that …

I had received a bunch of Pampered Chef products as my wedding gifts, and most of them are still serving me now, 6 years later. One of them is the can opener, and I really like it. It had taken some time to figure out how it works when …

I used to disappoint my husband a lot when it comes to cooking rice. He used to call me very notorious when it comes to habitual burning of rice. We are both working so I have to do a lot of multitasking to cope with all the chores. As …

We bought our Dustbuster a few days after our wedding. I’m happy to report that a year later, our little Dustbuster is still one of our favorite and most reliable appliances at home.
Our apartment is small and we have a little problem having space for stuff. We don’t even have …

Using a fabric conditioner on your clothes before letting them dry is a very good practice because it makes the fabric softer and fragrance. Since I rarely wash my own clothes, I am not used to the brand my favorite laundry shop is using. But one time, I have …

The Holmes OPP Small Heater Fan is a space heater that I think I recall paying ten dollars for. I no longer use this space heater because I now use the Crofton Oscillating Fan Heater. That is a better space heater in my opinion. I did get a couple …

Things are always getting broken in my busy home, so this time when I needed to re-glue a broken wooden draw I bought LePage Suregrip Carpenters glue. This is by far the best wood glue I have ever used. It’s slightly yellow in colour and quite thick, and you …

Finally, I have real poutlry shears. These are great. I make poultry a lot and I’ve recently been in the habit of buying whole birds or pieces on the bone and using recipes that call for them. It’s cheaper for me to buy poultry this way and I find …

Whenever I need paper plates, I always go to Walgreens. Walgreens gives me a reasonable price of dollar seventy-nine on seventy-two paper plates. The nine inch paper plates are large enough to hold a couple pieces of pizza or a hamburger and some fries or a couple of waffles …

I like to buy most of my cleaning supplies from the local Dollar Tree store. I like the fact that I can find almost anything I need for cleaning at a very low price of a dollar. I always find something new to use in their, and I …

I got this machine for Christmas a few years ago, as my first sewing machine. At first, the only problem I had was that I couldn’t figure out how to put the bobbin in - I couldn’t understand even the picture instructions that are on the bobbin tab thing, …