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Those Moldy Oldie Appliances
Would you believe that some folks are still hanging on to their old appliances? There’s a huge Internet market for repair parts and manuals for older appliances. It sure surprised me! I thought that those old fridges from I Love Lucy and Hazel and even The Brady Bunch had cluttered landfills eons ago. Nope. Some [...]
Continue reading...Two Year Anniversary for Memory Foam…
1. April 2011
I always wanted one of those *real* memory foam mattresses. I’d endured the spring coil for many decades before the darling husband shelled out the big bucks for a memory foam. We got a Tempurpedic on sale, and I did a review shortly after. It remains one of my most popular blog posts, surprisingly. We’ve [...]
Continue reading...Review of the Nesco GardenMaster Dehydrator
17. January 2011
I have wanted a dehydrator FOREVER. We all like to eat dried fruits, but the prices at the grocery store are excruciating. For years, I kept promising myself (and the kids) that we’d get a dehydrator… someday. Well, I recently got a bonus at work, and shelled out the big bucks for the Nesco GardenMaster [...]
Continue reading...Old Window Icicles
29. December 2010
Huh. I’ve never seen this happen before. You know why that’s happening?! Because for the first time in this house, it is ACTUALLY WARM. It’s so warm that the warm air is leaking out through these leaky, 100-year-old windows, and making icicles when the warm air hits the freezing air outside. Wooow. Since ditching our [...]
Continue reading...A Review of the GE Profile Top-Loading Washer
28. December 2010
The renovation was too much for my 17 year-old Kenmore washing machine. We had moved it out of the kitchen into the basement during the summer, so I could still wash clothes while we gutted the kitchen. I don’t know if it was the extreme humidity down there or what, but wen we brought the [...]
Continue reading...Appliance Repair Help Online
2. December 2010
I don’t know about you, but I hate paying extortion prices for appliance repair. My whole household is disrupted when one of the major appliances breaks down (I work full-time, so a disruption like that is a major headache for the family)– not to mention my budget. JUST to have the appliance repair dude step [...]
Continue reading...The Coolest Mailboxes EVAH
5. November 2010
Maybe it’s because my Hubs is a mailman. Or maybe because I am so attentive to curb appeal and architecture of homes. But I think these Knobloch mailboxes are so cool! (And maybe it’s because “Knobloch” sounds somewhat Scottish, of which I am and love everything related to). Tell me that isn’t cool. They are [...]
Continue reading...Your Tiny Home Away From Home
20. October 2010
Oh my word. I was researching PDA gadgets recently, and lookie what I found! It’s an HP iPaq 210 Enterprise Handheld. A mini-mini computer! I love it! The hardest part about being a technology researcher and writer is seeing ALL these delicious gadgets. I DO SO want to try them out! I love this thing! [...]
Continue reading...Our Dishwasher Dream…
16. September 2010
…came true! A little background: We are a family of six. For over a year, I babysat several kids, making it TEN people to cook for, and to clean for. Imagine the humungous stacks of dishes we had to wash every single day. We couldn’t renovate the kitchen at that time, and there was no [...]
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I’m Rebecca
:) I’m a married mom of four teenage children. We live in Upstate New York. We bought an old 1855 home and acre property, over 10 years ago. We've been in the slow, agonizing process of living in the home while (trying) to renovate it. When I'm not renovating, I'm a freelance writer and blogger.
We've learned to dig a French drain, plant huge flower and vegetable gardens, wire a circuit panel, install furnace ducting, understand the enigmatic complexities of the plumbing system, and more. It's been *quite* the adventure.
You can read more about us here, read up on the history of the home, and read about what we've renovated so far. Thanks for visiting!
- Parging The Foundation Walls
- The Silent Summer: No Crickets, No Peepers!
- Building a Winter Cat Shelter
- The Tempurpedic Mattress Update
- How to Create a Serfdom
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- Marg: That sure is a pretty tummy Livvy. Nice of you to ...
- blueyes: gah, i needs another kitteh naow......
- Karen and Gerard: Livvy is so cute! She looks very comfortable ther...
- Rena: Our house is 112 years old, that is what my sale p...
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8. April 2011
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