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When I lived on my own in Florida, I bought a set of silverware that I really, really liked, primarily because it was the heaviest silverware I could find. The forks have only three tines, too, which I like. I still have the silverware, a decade later, but an unusually high number of the regular [...]

Is this the gold standard for do-it-yourself fried chicken? I may have to try this sometime…

So we're looking at getting a new roof installed. Any tips on how to suss out a good roofer?

When the plumber came and started the installation of our three new toilets, he left three quarter turn valves from Hodes Co with me to install later on. I got brave, read up quickly on how to install compression fittings, and installed them today. Spiffy! Our old ones tended to leak very slowly when turned [...]

Earlier this year Carey noticed a little spot on our ceiling in our living room. I investigated and couldn't find much of anything - perhaps the stain had always been there and we'd just not really noticed? At Christmas the stain was a little worse, and so with the help of Rich and Stan we [...]

So despite what some people seemed to think based on this post , the Honda CR-V was the clear-cut winner. The main reason? We prefer to keep our cars for about eight years, and in eight years someone who lives in our house will be 16, so we bought her a car too. The Kia [...]

The bedroom for a certain seven year-old is now done. This is the bedroom in which we put real wood floors and, well, lots of other stuff. The idea was largely Carey's, but I contributed a fair amount as did "DD" in the language of online moms. The entire room was based on a bed [...]

When we had the bonus room built above our garage, I wrote this post. Unfortunately, we've again run into the same problem - getting a contractor to call us back. This time it's the wood flooring guy(s). They need to drop off the wood so it can adjust to our house. They need to schedule [...]

Note to future self: When creating an accent wall, choose a color that is about ten times more different than the one you initially want to choose. Interestingly, in the video above, you can see what an effect the color temperature of the light has. Though the iPhone camera doesn't render the colors quite correctly [...]

Well, the little one is getting real wood flooring in her bedroom. After considering it earlier this year, we found out that some hardwood floors are actually not much more expensive than laminate flooring. We decided to purchase the following: Century Flooring Style: Cabot Oak Species: Oak Color: Amber Oak Item Number: AO3C Construction: Solid [...]

We're looking at getting a new microwave. The one we have has a busted turntable. It'd be the type which acts as a vent for the stove/oven as well. Black, preferably, as our other appliances are black. What's good these days? I don't need my microwave to connect to the Internet (at least I don't [...]

A few years ago when Carey and I first began painting the rooms in our house, we picked up a Pelican Paint Bucket from either Lowe's or Home Depot. The other day we looked at both stores for some more liners only to find out that our bucket has been discontinued or is at least [...]

Two questions for those who may have done this type of thing before: Question One: Cost Is wood flooring - real wood - worth the cost over laminate flooring? We're looking at installing this in a bedroom. Question Two: Ease How easy is it to install wood or laminate flooring? Is one easier than the [...]

Following up on yesterday's post, the estimates are: $80 to repair the gutter. The guy who came explained that this was basically a minimum charge. $96 to replace the one bad gutter. $442 (includes $50 coupon) to replace all of the gutters on the entire house. $1590 for a thing that's written up as "LEAF-FREE". [...]

One of the gutters on my house has started to pull away from the house itself. Winter is tough on gutters, and this one's been bad for awhile now. All of the clips that hold the far side of the gutter to the near side are broken, so water just collects in the middle and [...]