During the Great Backup Accident of 2010, I ended up losing 200 to 300 photos.  I don’t take photos a lot and my camera card holds 4GB.  But lucky me, just about ten days prior to the incident my card was full and I sat down and moved a bunch of photos onto my [CLICK TO CONTINUE...]

I have always been handy around the house, ever since I was a little girl with no daddy. I remember one time when I was eight years old fixing a door knob. I don’t remember what was wrong with it, but I was able to fix it and I was very proud of myself.

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I have used Quicken for seven years.   I started out with Quicken 2001 back in 2003.  In July 2008 I upgraded to a newer (used) computer and could not locate my Quicken CDs so I ended up moving to Quicken 2008.

In March, AJ and I went in together on a new desktop computer, [CLICK TO CONTINUE...]

You might have noticed a little button at the bottom of each of my posts that says Print Friendly on it. If you ever want to print a post from my site to read later, all you have to do is click on that little button.

Here are the reasons I love Print Friendly:

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For Christmas I got my son AJ one of these Sodastream Soda Makers. He’s been using it for two months now, and here are the benefits that we see to using it:

Water Tastes Better – You control the water source.  We are lucky enough to be able to drink well water which is [CLICK TO CONTINUE...]

On Monday I learned over at Simply Forties that March is National Women’s History Month.  To honor the great women of our history, I’m reviewing a book by a woman who is successful and intelligent and who was has twice been named Most Powerful Woman in Business by Fortune magazine (2004 and 2005).

My [CLICK TO CONTINUE...]

AJ recently subscribed to Netflix and he is really enjoying the service. He pays right around $10 a month and has watched quite a few movies. I keep wanting to watch a movie, but never find the time.  He has mostly watched movies that can be downloaded instantly, but he has ordered a couple [CLICK TO CONTINUE...]

How many times has this happened to you while shopping at Amazon? Have you, like me, gone to order one book, find a second one that you want and find that both books come to just a dollar or two short of free shipping?

I’ve wondered if there was some way to find something [CLICK TO CONTINUE...]

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It seems like Fels Naptha has been around forever.

It is currently manufactured by Dial Corporation but was developed in the late 1800s by Joseph Fels who lived in Philadelphia.  Mr. Fels created Fels Naptha originally to treat contact dermatitis for exposure to poison ivy or poison oak.   That leads [CLICK TO CONTINUE...]