My wife and I have celebrated the past 20 Christmases together. In all those years, we’ve always decorated with an artificial Christmas tree. It takes several hours to set up our tree and get it looking like a real tree, even before we hang the first ornament on it. This year I wanted to save [...]

I’ve been wondering for quite some time if it was safe to use higher wattage Compact Fluorescent Lights (CFLs) than the manufacturer’s specifications for Incandescent Light Bulbs. I searched for an answer to this question and couldn’t find one. I did discover the Ceiling Fan Questions and Answers blog by Hansen Wholesale though. Although there [...]

A few weeks ago I started seeing reviews for a product called the Jot-It from Cocoa, LLC. Apparently the company sent review samples to several professional organizers . Here are some of the reviews:

Office Stuffer
The Daily Saint
Yanko Design
My Personal Organizing Tools Review
Laura Stack

Most of the reviewers gave it an overwhelmingly positive review. This made [...]

This is probably the strangest hack I’ve ever posted here, but I’m posting it anyway, just because I wish I had thought of it sooner, and some of my readers have probably wanted the same thing.
I was traveling out of town this past week and realized that I had used up all my deodorant. I [...]

My wife and I were sitting on our front porch last night enjoying the cool evening air, listening to the crickets and frogs, sharing quality conversation, and shielding our eyes from a neighbor’s streetlight. That bright light shining in our eyes was the only thing standing between us and a really nice evening. So I [...]

About a year and a half ago I realized I was spending too much time looking for specific clothes in my closet. My wonderful wife handles the laundry, which I greatly appreciate, but I never knew exactly where something might be. Like many people, I wear certain clothes depending on my role or context at [...]

I had a breakfast business meeting Saturday morning. I needed to take my 12″ iBook to the meeting so I put it in my eBags Downloader Laptop Backpack and headed off to my meeting. This is my everyday bag. I normally carry my iBook, my digital camera, a few networking accesories, some blank media, and [...]