Batteries may seem like the perfect item to buy at a dollar store but there are quality and safety concerns. Batteries have a shelf-life and the batteries you see in Dollar Stores are often liquidated from other big box stores so they may have spent a few years on a shelf at another st...
THE TWO DOLLAR WHEELBARROW LIFE ON THE FAMILY FARM UNDER AN OPEN HEAVEN By: Tom Heck The Two Dollar Wheelbarrow Many years ago, shortly after we bought our farm, I went to a farm auction that had lots of stuff for sale by a farmer who was retiring. One of the things that came up ...
as parenting itself is in general. So we drove the 40 miles from our home in Spring Hill to the Nashville airport, then took a 5 hour flight to Sacramento, California (which included a layover in Las Vegas), then another 40 mile trip to my mother-in-law’s home in Walnut ...
I hope that the good people at Houzz take note that a significant proportion of readers are not millionaires doing $100K remodels and that we love to see low budget or DIY projects along with the money saving ideas and dollar store fixes. While I appreciate that this isn't a DIY type ...
It was crowded with Saturday morning adventurers, many who thought it was a great idea to run up the hill and then scale the rockface barely breaking stride. Several climbers made their way out of our sight line, gaining 100 feet in altitude, in the 10 minutes we watched. Zoe only made...
When sweet potatoes are harvested, they’re dug up and piled under a mound of dirt, called a hill… in preserving them. When I was small, I discovered his hills one day under the car shed… and dug them all out… thinking I was helping. I’m sure grandmamma wasn’t happy with me...
Macs and hopefully Apple TVs and iTablets, and that is a very good business for Apple.” Love the simplicity of this concept: Infographic Coins.“Instead of a full circle for a 25 cent piece, it is shaped in to a quarter circle, and half a dollar is exactly a half circle shaped coin...
This year with all the boys in school, we had three Valentine’s Day parties that required Valentine cards (totaling 56 cards). We decided to go for it and make our own. We started with party horns that I purchased at our local dollar store for $1 a dozen. On the computer, I ...
It’s up to the Soggy Dollar sticker! Although I was happy to just sit and ponder the raindrops, the rest of our crews were getting stir crazy after lunch. So we made a run for it in the dinghies between passing downpours and took a walk through town to see what we could see. It...
“A dollar” “Noooo too expenseeeeve” I say with a big smile She walks away muttering something rude under her breath In Mandalay, outside one of the temples there is a little old lady who will point to where you should leave your flip flops. Don’t let looks deceive you, this ...