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Welcome back!We’ve been looking hard for MP4 players for Christmas this year, but I seem to have a knack for finding sales after the item in question has sold out. This 8GB MP3/MP4 player is another example of my poor timing. There are a couple (or more) people on my Christmas list who would happily […]

We recently watched Young Frankenstein and the girls have found one line in the movie that they think is terribly funny and, apparently, it gets funner the more it’s repeated. My only gripe is that they’re misquoting it.
The line is spoken after the monster leaves the hose of the blind man who, while trying to […]

My mother in law is the hardest person on earth to shop for. When asked what she wants for Christmas, her answer is usually something like, “a box full of nothing” or something equally helpful. About five years ago, all she’d say was that she wanted some “not going overboard”. So, we found a little […]

I read recently that home insurance quotes are higher at this time of year than any other. That means that it would cost you more to insure a home in December than it would cost to insure the same home in January. Why? Because, according to what I read, December is when a home is […]

Thirty years old isn’t that old for a house, is it? I know that the house we lived in when I was a little kid had to have been closer to 130 years old. That house still had (non-functional) gas light fixtures on the walls.
My mother-in-law’s house was build in the mid-1970’s. Apparently that was […]