With the holidays around the corner and lots of party and invitation to reply to, we had no time to look at those refurbished laptops that were brought into our home today. Instead i spend time experimenting with making home made gifts for the kind people who had invited us to join them for Christmas [...]

My g/f who has kids with college student loan told me the other day that she cannot afford to buy tupperwares or go to tupperware parties because she had to save every penny for them.  I know where she is coming from and also where she is going to.  But truth be told, I’m big [...]

It is that time of the year to store away your summer and fall stuff and all your traveling Kipling luggages as well.  In our home, there is much storage place because our basement is used for a lot of other things.  So how do one expand your storage area?  What I do is to [...]

Never too early for Christmas, I’ve always argued with the spouse, just like those who buys the Wii now for their children, I decorate now for Christmas.   But it’s not the Christmas decor that caught my eyes at the Pottery Barn but this mood lamp that one can use on Christmas and throughout the year.

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I’ve often wonder how people use cloth napkins clean them and what kind of mess the guests would leave behind with their cloth napkins.  So I started thinking, should i use paper or cloth for my coming festivities?  It would be a lot easier to use paper of course, afterall, paper napkins are just as [...]

We will not be doing our usual Outer Banks vacations with the extended family, therefore i’m looking for entertaining the family here at our home.  While the above is good for the summer, i don’t want my christmas setting to be only green and red.  So i’m in search for a good way to decorate [...]

Every winter, we think of ways to save on heating bills and one of the things that really bug me is our open kitchen and open tv room.  So in order to heat our tv room, we have to heat up our kitchen as well.  So a few years ago, we installed a glass door [...]

Finally i found a party table extender for this Christmas since the in-laws are coming over for Christmas dinner at our place.  Putting away my new tuxedo for a family dinner this year instead of celebrating at the hotel, maybe a cheaper alternative for everyone in the family.  But instead of buying another table, we [...]

I love cooking even though baking is not my forte but is having this kitchen gadget a neccessity .. like an unlocked phone ??  I bet if i paid $500 for this gadget .. my spouse would probably divorce me ..hahha!!  What it is..?? an overpriced kitchen gadget in my humble opinion. At $500 .. [...]

I do miss  home!  why ..?? when i see these on magazines.. and online.. i know i can never get these for my home here because it isn’t even popular.. and if i showed them to the local shops here, they wouldn’t even know.  You can find loads of tv stands here or plasma tvs [...]