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There is a famous quote from Benjamin Franklin, “By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.”  It seems that life is going to be a bit tougher in the near future, you should be prepared for all circumstances.  One of the top preparations an individual or family can make is with some level of […]

Right now, anyone who owns their own home has an unprecedented financial opportunity sitting in their lap. With real estate prices soaring all over the country, home equity—a valuable resource that normally takes decades to acquire—is at an all-time high. In fact, 42 percent of homeowners are officially classified as equity rich, which means their […]

The living room usually gets a lot of foot traffic. These days, it’s where the TV and the surround sound are, so it dictates where people congregate. Or maybe you are one of those “I don’t own a TV” type—if that is true, good for you—maybe your living room really is about gathering around and […]

Unless you are hosting fabulous dinner parties for illustrious guests week after week, your dining room might not get as much foot traffic as the other rooms in your house (you know, rooms with TVs, toilets, refrigerators and beds—the necessities). That does not mean you should toss a card table and some plastic chairs in […]

We spend a lot of time figuring out the right look and feel for our bedrooms, living rooms and kitchens, but bathrooms are usually an afterthought. You don’t usually hear friends getting excited and pumped up about how they’re going to decorate the bathroom, unless they’re an interior designer or an architect (or just really […]

We’ve all seen the statistics about the huge percentage of time in our lives most of us spend sleeping. Unless you are super human and can thrive off three hours of sleep a night, you probably need at least six to eight hours of sleep in order to be a functioning human being the next […]

Hopefully you are not one of those people who despises any food that’s leafy and green. Most of us grow out of the “I hate spinach” phase by about junior high school, right? These days it is wise to start your own vegetable garden if you can since there are so many pesticides used on […]

Many of us love our coffee, but want to give it up for health reasons. Others of us don’t like coffee, but want a drink that is easy and offers a pick-me-up. Whether you’re a coffee fiend or coffee hater, there are plenty of non-coffee alternatives that are pleasurable and tasty. Coffee is acidic and […]

These days, most of us are so busy we don’t really have the time to devote to maintaining a complicated outdoor garden. We do want our yards to look nice, though and not like some ghetto wasteland of tumbleweeds and tin cans, so devoting a little bit of time to outdoor landscaping is worth the […]