When I started living alone, one of the things that I did was to buy some supplies for my small place. One very important item for me is purchasing my kitchen wares. To minimize expenses, I bought cheaper items at first so I won’t run out of budget. The …

Have you ever taken a shower and you’ve found yourself trying to hop around to keep that cold, wet shower curtain from sticking to you? Odds are that you have; we all have. I’ve got just the thing you need to make your shower relaxing and comforting! I found …

I think this scent is perhaps getting discontinued from Avon, as it has now ended up in the Sale book, but it could be more of a Summer kind of scent so it may comes back again in the Summer.
This comes in a 300ml bottle and the normal price …

Several months ago, I was asked to get a new coffee machine for my workplace. I wanted to get a Kenwood, as I had heard a lot of reviews of it and all of them were generally good. However, I was a bit disappointed to find that the particular …

I know the Target Home Eco Chrome Garment Racks are cheap at around $20, but do they have to be so flimsy?
I bought three of these as I needed some temporary clothes storage. When opened, all of the parts were very well packaged and come with …

My boyfriend and I recently were in the market for a vacuum cleaner. We were looking for something affordable, light and easy to store, but still something that could provide a basic clean. Our apartment is not huge and the vacuum space really is not that big so we …

I purchased a Food Saver some time ago and love it. It also has a feature that allows you to marinate you foods as well. There are special dishes that hook up to the machine and you can have something marinated within a matter of seconds rather than having …

I was in a Ross store a few nights ago and was able to find a perfect steamer basket to kick off my latest diet. It’s great, I was looking at a similar one only moments before at Bed Bath and Beyond for double the price!
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I picked this up because I was having trouble with reinserting my wine corks. I never had this problem years ago. However, some of the wines I buy now have some kind of synthetic material instead of a real cork. For whatever reason I have a harder time …

I am just writing to comment on the wonder hangers tv offer great deal they have going on. You ten plus a few things extra for under 20 dollars. Hey i could use some space in my closet sounds good. Soo i get the number off the …

I had a small tornado touch down in my neighborhood this past March.
I had some major damage to my home. I had a tree fall on my roof. It made a large hole in my roof and caused water and insulation to drip on the floor and carpet heavily …

A friend of mine gave me Clean-Rite Microfiber Cleaning Towels last holidays as a gift. I thought they were not different from ordinary kitchen rags which I was used to using because they don’t look different to me.
Clean-Rite Microfiber Cleaning Towels was made by CleanRite, and for a …

Shoppers value vegetable oil serves the purpose most of the time but has some definite drawbacks that I face. As the brand name suggests Shoppers Value vegetable oil is economic. I was convinced about the economic pricing of this product after looking at all brands of oils. But Shoppers …

Growing up, my parents tended to use Drano around the house for clogs, so when I went out on my own so to speak, I stuck with the plan. I don’t have anything against Drano now, but honestly, when I go shopping, I have found much better pricing …

I use this screen cleaner to clean my computer and TV and, it works great. I usually I purchase it from Wal-Mart. It’s sold in several retail stores so it’s not hard to find. I usually pay around 5 dollars for it. I believe that …

As a stay at home mom, I always search for products that could make my chores at home easier. I would have to say, Ariel detergents is one of the trusted products I’ve been using for years. When it comes to cleaning our clothes, it is incomparable to other …

I like my house to smell nice and I tend to buy quite a few scents for the house. I have tried all the Avon Naturals Room Sprays and some of them are just alright whereas others are really really nice.
So far this scent is now in the …

So we’ve had this ongoing problem with our bathroom. When we first moved in two years ago, the bathroom was the only point of concern I had because the tile grout along the surround of the bathtub was in pretty gruesome shape and looked like it was just full …

As with several of the articles that I have written recently we as a family are looking for ways in which we can lower our electric bill. We have taken most of our house to Energy Star appliances and we have replaced a good many of the appliances …

Before leaving Botswana, I sold a lot of our stuff to make the house removal lighter. One of those things which was gone was the sandwich maker. Although I still have one left here at home, I need an extra machine to use in another house where we will …

I started using contoured pillows about 6 years ago and ever since then, I can’t go to sleep or get a good night’s sleep on a regular pillow. The one that I have used till now were foam pillows but they were not the kind of foam that is …

Many people think that parchment paper and wax paper are the same thing or that they are interchangeable. When it comes to baking, that is definitely not true. First off, wax paper is made with a wax coating that is not meant to go in the oven …

I got this at Michael’s Crafts because they were half off. Normally the price would be about seventy dollars. I’m familiar with the Ott Lite name from years ago when their products were marketed more to fine artists as a better alternative to incandescent lighting. I think they only …

About a year ago, my dad brought home a couple of Lasko room heaters for our individual rooms. Our house is a pretty old house, and it is not insulated very well. As a result, it’s really hot in the summer, and freezing in the winter. The heat and …

Whirly wash is probably the most useless tool I’ve seen and used. I got Whirly Was mainly for washing the car. How it works is it uses water to turn the brush. This turning brush scrubs your car and you can simply hold the handle and do nothing at …

The best smelling candles that I have ever come into contact with are Home Interior candles if they say that it is baked apple pie scented when it is burning I guarantee it will smell like apple pie. The candles are a little high though, however if you burn …

I fell in love with Panini pressed sandwiches the last time I visited San Francisco. No matter what kind I tried, each one tasted better than the last. Coming home I knew it wouldn’t be long before I made Panini’s of my own.
While …

The Great Value Sandwich Bags come one hundred to a box for around two dollars and fifty cents. I save around fifty cents or more by going with the Walmart store brand sandwich bags over the Glad sandwich bags or the Ziploc sandwich bags and I get just as …

Weber One Touch Gold 22.5 Inch Grill looking for something that is a bit more old school then you may just be looking at the right thing. I’ve always like the old school grill, and I think that is because that’s what my father taught me on. Now don’t …

You’ve seen the ads, or at least I have for the product Pine Sol. The ads all talk about how Pine Sol “smells clean”. I have all hardwood floors in my house and decided to puchase Pine Sol and give it a try on the floors. I have to …

I have tried all sorts of toilet cleaners and fresheners over the years. I have tried the ones you just squirt under the rim and down the toilet, both cheap and expensive all just to be flushed away and not very effective. I have tried the blocks that you …

I really like shopping at discount outlets. I went to Sam’s at the end of summer last year because you can get great prices on off season products. We purchased a Coleman Roadtrip Pro propane gas grill. Since we go camping a lot we wanted something …

I purchased these lint rollers over a month ago and I have been very disappointed in them because they weren’t what I expected. When I purchased these rollers I paid 15 dollars for a 5 pack of rollers. In my opinion they are way to expensive especially …

I’ve had this dishwasher for 3 years now. Most of the appliance I bought when I arrived in Canada were GE ones but I wasn’t familiar with the brand and hadn’t heard anything negative about them before.

What I started to find, after a short period, was that most of the …

Ever since we bought our house a couple years ago, we have wanted a range hood to put above the stove in our kitchen. The previous owners had gotten by with a crappy shower light there and, whenever we cooked, the house had the potential to fill up with …

Living in a very warm climate, sometimes it seems that is no amount of air conditioning that will keep the house cool enough. Last summer, after a particularly long streak or record temperature days, I ran out and purchased three Oscillating Tower Fans model FZ10-2D from Climate …

Although I am a little bit too young to remember the days before electric kettles became quite as common as they are now in the United Kingdom, just once in a while I do get a bit of a yearning for something that looks a little bit more elegant …

I am someone that doesn’t like the job of washing dishes so I am always looking for things to make the task a bit easier. I was impressed with this Oxo brush so I decided to purchase it. When it comes to washing dishes this is one …

My husband bought the new floor carpet for our new flat this month. The design and the color combination of this new carpet is just very good and it matches with the new colored walls of my flat. The cost of this carpet is 165$ and the …

Every year my older children and I make a gingerbread biscuit house for Christmas, which we ice and fill with sweets for the family to pick at. This year however I decided to something a little different, after my younger daughter said she’d like to help - as a …

About two weeks ago, I decided that I wanted to clean up a few rooms. There were so many sheets of paper lying around. They were important and needed to be accessed easily, so they couldn’t just be stuffed in a drawer, but they also couldn’t just stay lying …

You probably have seen all of those Mr. Clean Magic Eraser commercials where there is this big spot, that looks impossible to get out, is magically wiped away. So, does it really do that? Well, the commercial hooked me and I did buy some just to find …

I have 3 washing machines in my house, 2 in 2 bathrooms in the apartmant where I live, one machine in each bathroom, and one in the apartment we rent during the summer. I wanted a good wasching machine for myself because I wanted my clothes to be white …

I bought a bottle of Method All Purpose Natural Surface Cleaning Spray for $30 online. Here is my review.
Method All Purpose Natural Surface Cleaning Spray is an all-purpose cleaner that claims to help you clean your house by eliminating different kinds of dirt. Just like other cleaners, it …

After my old curtains became faded and old, I needed to replace them with new ones. I have a large slider in my dining area, and it gets a lot of sun shining through. The slider is on the back side of the house, and it faces …

The Swiffer Duster makes the household chore of dusting a breeze. Compared to other dusting products, the Swiffer Duster only needs one stroke to pick up the dust. No second effort. No dust floating in the air and returning to the surface you just cleaned.
The package comes with a …

Our Jacuzzi swimming pool pump went out at the beginning of this season, when the impeller shaft fitting cracked. As Jacuzzi parts are no longer available (after rather exhaustive searches both locally and web-wide) I decided to go with a Hayward pump/motor assembly based upon a recommendation from a …

We live in the area where there are so many mosquitoes and it is impossible to avoid them, specially during the summer. They are everywhere. I’ve read somewhere that mosquitoes really like A+ blood type. Guess which blood type I have? A+ of course. I consider that really interesting, …

Dylon Colour Catcher sheets seemed like a good thing for me to try, particularly as I live alone and I have to do several machines washes every week to cater separately for whites, colours and darks. Each sheet is about the size of a sheet of lavatory paper …