My wife and I signed to buy a house 12 hours ago and I’m wide awake at 3:30am tossing and turning not with buyers remorse but with negotiators remorse. I say that because I learned a ton doing this transaction that I wish I had known before our negotiation yesterday, and though I got a pretty […]
My wife and I both work full time, and with a 2 year old, we don't have time to clean our house ourselves anymore. So we hired a local Las Vegas cleaning service (review to come soon) that comes every two weeks to clean our house. The cleaners love to break things and then balance […]
I have been a Sirius/XM customer since I purchased my Hyundai Santa Fe over 3 years ago. With the purchase of the car, I was given a free trial of XM (they hadn't merged yet). I don't remember how long the free trial was for, but when it ended I was to start paying whatever […]
My wife and I visited the local "Stu Miller's Pumpkin Patch" in Summerlin Las Vegas on the NW corner of Flamingo and Grand Canyon today with our 20 month old boy. We had a good time walking around taking pictures in the pumpkin patch. We had a fun, but our boy was too small to […]
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 […]
My wife and I were recently had a Steinway & Sons grand piano shipped from Seattle to here in Las Vegas. We used a national shipper, who it turns out is actually a middle man who trucks the piano across the country, but contracts the pick up and drop off to local piano movers. When […]
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. […]
I recently replaced the battery on my iPhone 5 as my phone would quickly lose power during the day. When I first got my phone, I could go pretty much a whole day without needing to charge. And that included taking lots of pictures and video as well as spending time texting and using social […]