http://www.homegardenandgift.org Trends, Recommendations and Reviews in Home, Garden and Electronics Tue, 19 Aug 2008 13:12:39 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en This started in my home about a month ago. We have smoke alarms outside each bedroom door and in hall way ant the smoke alarm outside mine started chirping intermittently. It made me insane and at 3 am I put in a new battery. Beeping started again about an hour later. Since ... http://www.homegardenandgift.org/2008/08/19/stop-smoke-alarm-from-beeping-and-chirping/ All who know me know that i am a serious bargain hunter and a shrewd shopper. In every circle there ia someone who knows where to get the best and the cheapest. I am that person. I can tell you what day and where to get a great deal on ... http://www.homegardenandgift.org/2008/07/26/my-best-deals-ever-from-my-favourite-deal-site/ I have been using the same webhosting company for about 5 years now and have been pretty satisfied and nothing major has happened = that is until last week. Some of the sites on one of my servers were down for 4 days. This was a bit of an economic ... http://www.homegardenandgift.org/2008/07/05/sites-down-for-several-days/ it does not happen very often but every once in a while i will find a product that I LOVE. It does exactly what is says it will do and sometimes MORE. This week i stumbled along something that I am in love with. You may recall my nightmare ... http://www.homegardenandgift.org/2008/07/04/favorite-product-this-week-glade-oil-plugin-air-freshener-thingy/ Making money from a simple web sit or blog is all the rage these days. I can;t exactly say I have gotten rich from my blog0 I may make enough to treat family to ice cream one a month :-) But tons of people swear buy it. One key to making ... http://www.homegardenandgift.org/2008/07/01/better-traffic-for-your-web-site/ We are in some kind of deck paint hell. We bought our house last year. In the time of making the offer and getting the house the people who owned our house at the time decide to paint the deck It is very large, about 12x20 feet overlooking inground pool. The ... http://www.homegardenandgift.org/2008/07/01/deck-paint-trouble/ This year will be the first year any of our kids go away for "sleep away" camp. I am not sure I will be able to make it :-) I have rarely been away from my kids for more than a day or to and the though of a whole ... http://www.homegardenandgift.org/2008/07/01/summer-camp-safety/ I just wanted to pot that I was very pleased with the Zip.ca service I signed up for about 2 months ago. It a mailing dvd rental type service. I make a list up ( called a ziplist) of movies I would like to see and then send as they ... http://www.homegardenandgift.org/2008/06/28/update-on-using-zipca-for-blu-ray/ Woot.com has a good deal on Blu-Ray computer today, its a Gateway GM5664 Desktop and features: 9600 Quad Core 1TB HDD 3GB RAM Blu-ray Radeon HD 2400XT graphics card with 2 DVI ports. downside- Vista Home Premium and no HDMI- although it is shipped with a DVI to HDMI dongle http://www.homegardenandgift.org/2008/06/26/blu-ray-pc-on-woot-today/ My dad got a NASTY gash on his foot last summer when working in the yard. They were putting in an ornamental pond in back yard and when digging out dirt there were some buried rail way tied- a HUGE nail- ripped open his foot. He was wearing crocs. No on ... http://www.homegardenandgift.org/2008/06/20/safety-tip-while-doing-yard-work/