Our local gas & electric utility used to have a pretty good in-house home maintenance plan. Then they decided to outsource it to an out-of-state company called Pivotal Home Solutions. Since then, their service has been piss-poor. I was changing out the filter from our furnace and decided to inspect the burners. Unfortunately, this wasn’t …
My wife needed a new iPhone, so I called a local T-Mobile store and inquired if they had any iPhone 13 Mini’s in stock. They said they did and would put one aside for me. They told me the price and said that we could get a $200 trade-in on our old phone. I agreed …
We took a trip to San Francisco and decided to rent a car from Thrifty. The price was decent and everything about our experience from pickup to dropoff was fairly smooth. But there’s one thing to be careful of especially around the Bay Area: tolls. If you don’t choose Thrifty’s toll plan, then you’re on …
If a tree falls in the forest and no one hears it, does it make a sound? If a man tags in a city with no artists, is he an artist?
My last few orders from PsPrint have been less than stellar. They used to be good, even printing offset for low quantities. Now, everything is digital and the colors aren’t as vibrant. On top of that, they have quality control issues. The last couple of orders for greeting cards have had weird smudges on a …
If you receive a piece of spam mail from Mortgage Protection Life Insurance right after you refinance, just return the postage paid envelope with a note saying, “No thank you.” I’m not sure how they get access to your loan information, but it’s super-creepy.
We absolutely loved our IKEA Manstad couch. It fit perfectly in our little living room, folded out to a bed, and provided extra storage: But alas, it’s discontinued. There are a number of knockoffs out there, but none with the same dimensions and, most important, full back along all three sides. We thought we hit …
Do you have a tendency to forget that the stove or oven is on? Here’s a trick: Get “Gym Boss”. It has an “interval timer” feature; it beeps at a set interval. I have mine set to beep every 60 seconds. Now, whenever I use the stove or oven, I click on my “Gym Boss” …
Do you have a Delta kitchen faucet with loose handle? (Does the handle “wiggle”?) If you unscrew the handle, you’ll see that it sits on top of a cheap plastic nub. That plastic nub wears away over time. How did I fix he wiggle? I wrapped the plastic nub with a small piece of duct …