New Battery for an Old Phone
In 2017, I bought my first smartphone (after previously making do with a dumbphone). Recently, after I’d used it for over a year, I noticed […]
Doug's Methods of Saving Money
In 2017, I bought my first smartphone (after previously making do with a dumbphone). Recently, after I’d used it for over a year, I noticed […]
Ever heard of “spring bar pins”? If you wear a watch — and that’s a big “if” in the cellphone era — then you might […]
One of the easiest ways to save money is to eat out less. When I was a kid, eating out was something middle-class people, at […]
Hard-boiled eggs are an excellent and inexpensive breakfast food, especially if you know the best way to cook them. I think most people like hard-boiled […]
Some days ago, a member of my household decided to move some furniture, which including moving our family computer. She said she was careful and […]
Years ago I attended a talk about safety and crime prevention given by a local police officer. One thing he said led me to develop […]
Front-loading washing machines have filters (sometimes called “coin traps”) to prevent solid objects from getting into, and possibly damaging, the pump that moves water out […]
Avoid convenience. Save a lot of money. That’s all of the truth about saving money. Here’s an example. Last week I opened the refrigerator to […]
It’s a good idea to prevent lint from going down the laundry-sink drain. You can get lint traps that attach to the end of your […]
If you’ve connected your refrigerator’s ice maker to one of your house’s water pipes, you probably know what a saddle valve is. A valve that […]
If you notice the water coming on by itself to fill the tank of your toilet, the problem could be your toilet’s flapper valve. You […]
The newel post (the large vertical post at the bottom of the handrail on the stairs) at my house had gotten loose in recent years […]
It’s well known that LED lights are much more efficient than incandescent or fluorescent lights. They use less electricity and last much longer, making them well […]
One more reason that fairly-new-and-in-good-condition washing machine was on the curb slowly revealed itself as we used it. It evidently had a slow leak. After […]
For quite a while I’ve wanted a mirror for the bathroom door. I want a real mirror, one made of glass. Not one of the […]
It was a warm summer day. I was at work. My phone rang. It was my wife. She told me that she had noticed that […]
Over the past weekend I avoided the convenience of paying someone to cut some low-hanging branches on the trees in my yard. I avoided the […]
I was in Phoenix a few weeks ago visiting my parents. I noticed that it was difficult to get the shower in the guest bathroom […]
Some months ago our washer and dryer both stopped working. The washer, a front-loading model, had a catastrophic break-down — the drum came loose and […]