AMAZING SIMPLE HOME REMEDIES

1. Avoid cutting yourself when slicing vegetables by getting someone else to hold the vegetables while you> chop.

2. Avoid arguments with females about lifting toilet seat by using the sink.

3. For high blood pressure sufferers ~ simply cut yourself and bleed for a few minutes, thereby reducing the pressure on your veins. Remember to use a timer.

4. A mouse trap placed on top of the alarm clock will prevent you from rolling over and going back to sleep by hitting the snooze button.

5. If you have a bad cough, take large doses of laxatives. Then you'll be afraid to cough.

6. You only need two tools in life - WD40 & duct tape. If it won't move and it should, use WD40. If it shouldn't move and does, use the duct tape.

7. If you can't fix it with a hammer, you've got an electrical problem.

DAILY THOUGHT: Some people are like slinkies - not really good for anything, but they bring a smile to your face when pushed down the stairs

Ha ha!! Number seven is most like me. My toolbox consist of a hammer and two screwdrivers. Beyond that, I need a professional.


TIS

I have WD40 and duct tape. But don't have a clue how to use them. haha.

I have a socket set too. I guess people who gave me these things never MET me. haha.

Just paid $95 for a plumber visit (thru the home warranty contract I got from the previous home owner) to check out my tankless water heater. Apparently there wasn't much he could do about it because it was installed (very) improperly, and the warranty doesn't include improper installations because I didn't upgrade the contract within the first month. But I can get a new, top-rated one for only about $2800 installed!

I think for a while I'll live with the hot water turning cold here and there. Bad enough my ice maker went a few weeks ago and still have to call Sears about that. (Fridges aren't included in the contract w/o an upgrade either!). And water (from frozen gutters) was dripping from a kitchen window that I planned to replace in the Spring anyway (4 windows actually). And I'm sure there are other things I'm not thinking of.

In the mean time go to Walmart and buy a couple of these:

Plumbers cost an arm and a leg. When I moved to my condo (3 yrs ago), all my appliances were new. My dishwasher gets very little use because I don't use it jut for me. However, I noticed it had a small leak. At the end of each cycle there was just a little water on the floor. Plus, my "new" oven door came off, with the glass part totally detaching from the door. I know nothing about these things. I ended up having to buy a new gasket for the dishwasher which is a Bosch and evidently, the part was out of the country or something. Anyway, cost me $350 for the gasket and to fix the oven door. I should have gotten a new dishwasher for that price.

I think I'll marry a handyman/plumber next time around. I'll save a bundle. Just think a man that knows his way around a workbench. Has it's advantages. LOL

TIS

$2800 for a hot water heater????????? Holy crap! I got a brand new furnace AND hot water heater (60 gallon) installed for $5500 a few years ago. Either prices have really gone up or you're getting ripped off.

Sears is a rip-off, Geoff. I bought a new garage door opener from them. It broke twice within three years, and I had to get a new one, because the second repair would have meant that I'd spent as much to repair it as it would to buy a new one. One of my coworkers spent several hundred with Sears last winter to get his furnace repaired. Guess what? He ended up buying a new furnace this winter!

Edit: Welcome to home-ownership!

Well, of course he wanted to sell me the top-of-the-line, and that also includes installation. I have to get a tankless system as there's no room for a tank anywhere any more. Seems Home Depot is selling them for around $800-1200 for the unit itself w/o installation (the previous owner paid $770 for this one, but totally hacked the installation).


I was only thinking Sears service because it's a Kenmore fridge. I'll get estimates from them and also a local appliance business and see.

I don't know much about hot water heaters, but I've had to purchase a couple in my lifetime and I never paid that much. I think maybe installed $300 or so. And that price includes a metal strap required in in CA for earthquake protection. But damn!!! Maybe you have an extra big, extra good hot water heater. That's an awful huge price.


TIS

TIS, it's a tankless system that hangs on the wall and can fit in a closet. Ironically, it's supposed to save you money since it doesn't have to keep 50 gallons of water heated at all times (it heats it up as you need it).

I can't imagine hanging a water heater on a wall.

Geoff, the joys of owning a home. Did I tell you the story of my sewer pipe breaking at the foundation....not covered by the Home Owners Warranty. Its a shitty story. But just think of the tax deductions.

Does it look like one of those old fashioned toilet tanks attached to the wall, that you can hide a gun behind?


TIS

With the chain thing.

I don't think you can fit a gun behind it, but it looks like this



(this one isn't mine)

Are you sure that's not yours? I can see you wearing those little orange duckie boots while out shoveling snow!

maybe a switchblade.

Wait. Isn't that the closet in which that woman was kept captive all those years?

I want to get naked and have a cuddle.

Thats how babies start to happen

Don't interrupt Capo and Turi.

According to Forbes Magazine, the top 10 most miserable cities:

Cleveland
Stockton, Calif.
Memphis, Tenn.
Detroit
Flint, Mich.
Miami
St. Louis
Buffalo, N.Y.
Canton, Ohio
Chicago

Hmmmm.... Cleveland, Ohio to Buffalo, NY to Canton, Ohio. Draw a line between them and you get the new Bermuda Triangle.

I live in between Cleveland and Canton. Guess I'm screwed.

I don't know much about Stockton but have heard it's pretty bad. Flint and Detroit, I believe. Both are in horrible shape.

But, Chicago????? My kind of town?? I love Chicago. I have no doubt it has it's bad areas but, it is a much more popular tourist/visting spot than the others on the list no?


TIS

By Peter S. Goodman updated 5:15 a.m. CT, Sun., Feb. 21, 2010

BUENA PARK, Calif. - Even as the American economy shows tentative signs of a rebound, the human toll of the recession continues to mount, with millions of Americans remaining out of work, out of savings and nearing the end of their unemployment benefits.

Economists fear that the nascent recovery will leave more people behind than in past recessions, failing to create jobs in sufficient numbers to absorb the record-setting ranks of the long-term unemployed.

Call them the new poor: people long accustomed to the comforts of middle-class life who are now relying on public assistance for the first time in their lives — potentially for years to come.

Haha, I've just had a great weekend meeting my boy Mick for the first time. It was very difficult letting the boy go at the train platform. He's got some pictures of the weekend he better post. Four kisses.

Turi,

You guys finally met??? That's great. I can only imagine the two of you on the town. I look forward to seeing pictures.

Btw, how are you doing Turi?


TIS

maybe its depressed because DB lives there

This is really scary stuff. It will be a drag on any recovery.
Companies are still moving more work overseas. People with jobs are going to cut spending, worried they might be next and also will be under pressure to help laid off relatives.