Here’s a book recommendation for homemakers: Mrs. Meyer’s Clean Home: No-Nonsense Advice that Will Inspire You to CLEAN like the DICKENS for $13.59.
It contains several common sense tips that are usually ignored or forgotten. It also includes tips you may probably have not heard of yet. This book is a super-useful guide to keeping your home clean and efficient.
According to a survey by PNC Wealth Management, many wealthy Americans are said to be giving more focus on time instead of their assets and money once they retire and at least one third of the survey respondents have admitted to having no concrete retirement goals.
Florida regulators from the Consumer Product Safety Commission are investigating reports on toxins found in China-made drywalls, said to be emitting unpleasant sulfur gases. The effects of this emission results in sickness and physical damages that many homeowners must be made aware of such a problem.
From time to time, I think we need to feature product recall advisories from the CPSC. This is to help raise awareness and reach parents and homeowners alike. These product recalls are good measures of preventing untoward incidents that may lead to serious accidents at home.
WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, in cooperation with the firm named below, today announced a voluntary recall of the following consumer product. Consumers should stop using recalled products immediately unless otherwise instructed.
Name of product: Solar System Kits and DNA Kits
Units: About 930,000
Manufacturer: FloraCraft Corp., of Ludington, Mich.
Hazard: The surface coating on the educational kit’s wires can contain excessive levels of lead, violating the federal lead paint standard.
Incidents/Injuries: None reported.
From time to time, I think we need to feature product recall advisories from the CPSC. This is to help raise awareness and reach parents and homeowners alike. These product recalls are good measures of preventing untoward incidents that may lead to serious accidents at home.
WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, in cooperation with the firm named below, today announced a voluntary recall of the following consumer product. Consumers should stop using recalled products immediately unless otherwise instructed.
Name of product: Children’s flip flops
Units: About 210,000
Manufacturer: Alpargatas USA Inc., of New York, N.Y.
Hazard: Decorative paint on the sole of the flip flops can contain levels of lead in excess of the federal standard. Incidents/Injuries: None reported
Description: Flip flops of the Havaianas brand containing decorative paint were sold under the following model names: Baby Estampas, Baby Pets, Kids Apple, Kids Fairy, Kids Flores, Kids Lighthouse, Kids Monsters, Kids Surf, Baby Letrinhas, Kids Sports, Kids Candies, Kids Fun, Kids Love, Kids Sereias, Kids Speed, Kids Lucky Bug, Kids Pets, Kids Rock, Kids Slim, Kids Wonder Woman, Kids Small Flowers and Kids Tropical w/Kit. A photo of a representative flip flop is provided below. Havaianas flip flops without decorative paint are not being recalled.
Recession has hit every US household in 2008…
The net worth of US households fell by nearly 18 percent or 11.2 trillion dollars in 2008 as the world’s biggest economy grappled with a prolonged recession, the Federal Reserve said Thursday.
Household net worth — the difference between the value of assets and liabilities — was an estimated 51.47 trillion dollars at the end of the fourth quarter of 2008, down 5.1 trillion dollars from the 
preceding quarter, the US central bank said.
For 2008 as a whole, household net worth fell 11.2 trillion dollars from 62.68 trillion dollars in the previous year, according to the Fed’s latest “Flow of Funds Accounts” quarterly report.
The 2008 figure is the lowest since 2004, when household wealth was at 51.87 trillion dollars, the report said.
The United States is facing its worst recession since the Great Depression after a home mortgage meltdown triggered financial turmoil that slammed the brakes on growth.
The recession began in December 2007 and based on the most recent government estimate, US gross domestic product contracted at an eye-popping 6.2 percent annual pace in the fourth quarter of 2008.
Some analysts say the downturn may be even worse in the first quarter of 2009.
The Fed also said that at the end of 2008, the level of outstanding domestic nonfinancial debt was 33.5 trillion dollars, including household debt valued at 13.8 trillion dollars and total government debt of 8.6 trillion dollars.
Household debt contracted at an annual rate of two percent in the fourth quarter of 2008, following two quarters of very weak growth, the report said.
Source: MSNBC
The items sold at Eden&Eden are carefully chosen authentic materials known for their contemporary aesthetics. They’re ultra-feminine but also imbibes that rich European culture.
Here are just some of the things you can score from Eden&Eden:
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Teapot & Cosy - Pink $70.00 Classic Brown Betty small teapot with hand knitted wool cosy. Made in England |
From People Will Always Need Plates. Cotton dish cloth featuring Trellick Tower, London illustration. Made in England |
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Champagne Flutes - Black $68.00 Pair of black glass vintage inspired champagne flutes. 8.25″ Made in England |
Felt Doily - Turquoise $38.00 From designer Donna Wilson. Made in Scotland |
Aside from kitchen items, the store also has home fixtures, home decorations, jewelry, accessories, clothes and purses. The choices are a little bit quirky but tasteful.
Eden&Eden is located in San Francisco, California.
Check the website here.
This is truly a great Mommy Kitchen helper. It’s so easy to use for parents with weaning babies. You can steam veggies, meat and fruits with it, even as the vitamins and flavors are retained. You can also use this to reheat or defrost baby’s food…
For households who love to leave notes on the fridge a lot, the Amana Jot Refrigerator should be one of the most important kitchen appliance you’ll ever need. Instead of living stick it notes (which could actually get lost), one can simply just write the note on the fridge’s surface and yes, use that as the notepad.
The fridge has the following features:
An 18 cu ft beauty will set you back at around $749 via Amana.
Oh, hail the paper towel! I use this a lot in the kitchen. In fact, it’s one of the things I buy often at the grocery. Paper towels were a result of an error, according to this book on household tips I’m reading. They didn’t use to come in perforated form and was slightly bigger. But the error turned out to be a blessing as it is how we have our paper towels today.
Paper towels make excellent coffee filter, in case you run out of these. There’s no reason to panic if you can’t have your cup of coffee. As long as you have a paper towel, caffeine is still good to go!
For green thumbs who keep cast iron pots at home, stacked, put paper towels in between the pots so that you keep away the rust and chipping away of the texture.
If you’re a bacon-loving family, but hate the fat, dab the bacon strips on a paper towel first before serving this to your family. The paper towel will absorb all the fat and you’d also have crispier bacon strips to serve. I do the same for any other fried food like pork chops, luncheon meat and the likes.
Bread that has been kept inside the refrigerator will turn soggy once it is out of it. Keep them dry and fresh by putting a paper towel in the bag.
Keep vegetables fresh inside the vegetable bin by lining the sides and bottom with paper towel. It will also make cleaning up this bin easier.
Use paper towel to clean the can opener. Over time, its use get a little bit rusty and grungy. Scrub this with a toothbrush first, and then wipe it clean with paper towel. You’d have a sharper can opener after that.
Coffee is a great drink to perk up your day and keep you energized through out a grueling and stressful schedule. But do you know that coffee is also good for repairing and restoring things around the house?
Elfa Products are going on sale at The Container Store. It’s the best selling brand of the site, specializing in compact and convenient storage solutions for the home. Below are just some of what you can get from the ongoing sale….
We know that petroleum jelly is typically used for health and beauty purposes, such as softening up cracked lips or relieving a baby’s bum from diaper rush. But it can also be used in many other number of ways totally unrelated to health and beauty. Below are just some suggestions:
I’ve a growing number of nail polish collection that is slowly becoming clutter in my room. I hardly used some of it for my nails, so I’m gonna use them for something else. Here are a few tips as to where you can apply nail polish —-
Here’s a wonderful design idea you can perhaps do the same at your own house —
This bookshelf is made of cardboard only. It’s a work of art. It’s a work of genius. It’s making use of materials that help keep the earth clean and doing away with really expensive furniture that could deplete our personal funds.
The man behind this is Eric Guiomar who happens to be a furniture maker who has discovered the plenty of ways one can turn cardboard into something very useful at home.
If you’ve got the creative skills, you can probably do something similar. Maybe not as elaborate and ambitious as this one, but you get the idea. Check out his other design at Freshome, where he painted over the cardboard bookshelf so that it looks blended together at the house where it’s found.
Household Tips is full of creative and unique household hints, remedies and shortcuts to keep your active family healthy and on-the-go. It will provide you with Martha Stewart-like do-it-yourself centerpieces with the ease and lightheartedness of a 30-Minute Meals show. Think, Dear Abby meet Hints from Heloise, disguised as a work-at-home-mom with stains on all her shirts.
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