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Review of the Nesco GardenMaster Dehydrator
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...New Kitchen: The Delta ToucH20 Faucet
Thursday, September 30, 2010
Delta Faucet company graciously gave me a Delta Pilar Pull-down Faucet with ToucH20 Technology. We absolutely love this faucet! I am a Delta fan, anyway– when we moved to this house, the bathrooms had Delta faucets (old Delta faucets, because the bathrooms had been remodeled in the 1970s and 80s). They work marvelously, after all [...]
Continue reading...Flossing Foibles Solved
Tuesday, September 22, 2009
I am a FIEND when it comes to dental hygiene. I nag nag nag my kids to brush and floss, constantly. You see, I didn’t when I was a kid, nor did we see a dentist, so by the time I was 20 years old, my teeth were a disaster. I went through a lot [...]
Continue reading...My Review of the Oral B Pulsonic
Tuesday, February 17, 2009
Two of our kids got Oral B electric toothbrushes and we’ve been testing them out for quite a while. You can read about my review on the Oral B Triumph (which is AMAZING, really!) here. My youngest son- a reluctant brusher- has been dentally-transformed by the Triumph, and we love it! It’s my daughter who [...]
Continue reading...Credit Card or Bank Loan?
Monday, January 19, 2009
I have long considered (and tossed around at great length) whether to finance our home improvements and renovations with a bank loan or with a credit card loan. My own personal credit is very good, which has given me great options for credit card loans; but bank interest rates and home equity loan rates really [...]
Continue reading...A Review of the Upright Vacuum by GE
Wednesday, November 5, 2008
“Upright Vacuum” isn’t exactly a creative name for GE’s gold-colored vac. I guess it’s better than the model number (169171). I bought the vacuum at WalMart several months ago when my lemon (a Dirt Devil) died. I had only a few qualifications and I’d be happy: HEPA filter onboard attachments lightweight small amperage use actually [...]
Continue reading...A Review of Tempurpedic Mattress
Friday, October 24, 2008
Our old Sealy Posturpedic mattress had seen better days. I also strongly suspected it as the reason for my spate of back problems. I would wake up in pain every morning and stiffly stagger around most of the early part of the day. I’d researched all sorts of mattresses available, but the number of choices [...]
Continue reading...A Good Printer
Tuesday, May 13, 2008
I’d blogged about my HP All-in-One that bit the dust a few weeks ago. I procrastinated buying a new printer, hoping I could make due with emailing all the necessary documents to my husband’s computer and printing them that way. Wasn’t working out very well. Plus, I absolutely need a scanner for the homeschool and [...]
Continue reading...Need Help Choosing a Printer
Thursday, May 8, 2008
My old Hewlett-Packard All-in-One (printer, scanner, copier) has died. I hated it, anyway. It never printed like I wanted, it made my computer crash from time to time, and every time I turned it on, it always did a “test print” which wasted ink. So the rollers finally collapsed and it would cost more to [...]
Continue reading...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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