Our 5 year old Simmons Beauty Rest spring mattress recently hit the end of its practical lifespan.  My wife was no longer comfortable as it really sagged at our waist areas, and the amount of turbulence when one of us rolled over in the middle of the night would wake the other up. Unfortunately, mattress warranties […]

Trying to save some money a while back, I set up an old iPhone on a mini-tripod for use as a baby video monitor. It worked fairly well but crashed just about every night, making it useless to monitor the baby in the morning before getting out of bed. Plus it didn't work at night […]

We live a few blocks from the grocery store, and often take the baby for a walk to get food for lunch or dinner.  When  I take the baby by myself, the problem is that it is too difficult to push a cart or carry a basket and push the stroller at the same time. So I went […]

We all see the price of gas and love to complain about the cost of filling up our tanks.  What's funny though, is that we all detest paying for shipping when ordering online, but will readily drive to the store to buy something. Driving back and forth to the store is in itself a shipping cost. […]

Somewhere around a year ago, my wife and I were looking for entertainment via Netflix streaming on our Wii, and we ended up watching the documentary "Fat, Sick and Nearly Dead", which is about some Australian guy who's got too much money to sit around and do nothing, so he decides to health up by […]

A few years back I bought our house by short sale. The owner had quit making payments, had moved out and somewhere along the way, by the time I purchased it, the house was stripped of a few appliances. Included in the missing appliances were the clothes washer and dryer.  So we had to purchase […]