Guest spotlight

Water In, Waste Out Your Plumbing System

May 18, 2012 By Jan Leasure Leave a Comment

Fixtures In Between & Water: That's Your Plumbing System By: Yale Wolk, Erinson Home Inspections Your home's plumbing has three major parts. The first is the water supply and distribution. Water is provided either by a public system or a private well, and enters the house through a foundation wall or up through the floor slab. From there, water goes into distribution piping, which runs throughout the house. Next we have waste collection. At each lavatory, sink, tub, shower and toilet … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Featured, Guest spotlight, Home Maintenance, Household Tips Tagged With: Home Maintainance, money saving, plumbing, water

How to Teach Your Child Emergency Techniques

May 1, 2012 By $uper $aver Dawn Leave a Comment

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An emergency can arise at the most unlikely of times. Teaching your children to be properly prepared is important and will make the whole family feel safer! Our guest blogger, Kelly from GuestPostU.com, shares tips on how to do just that! ~ Jan Leasure Emergency? How to Teach Your Child to Be Prepared You are responsible for the safety of your children. However, you must accept the fact that you won’t always be around or even be able to help them when they face an emergency. One of … [Read more...]

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6 Ways Green Will Save You Money (and Your Sanity)

March 24, 2012 By $uper $aver Dawn 3 Comments

Stay Green & Save Money--Nirvana! Our Featured $uper $aver™ Guest this week is Maria Rainier. She shares with us her frugal green living advice! - Jan When someone says they’re trying their hand at green living, there’s an overwhelming impression that he or she has recently invested in a hybrid car or installed solar panels on their home (and charged it all on their trusty credit card, or a rich uncle died, or something). But here’s a secret: I’m a … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Featured, Green Living, Guest spotlight Tagged With: clean foods, frugal, Green Living, save money, save time, simple

Water in the Basement…Unwelcome Guest!

March 20, 2012 By Jan Leasure 4 Comments

By: Yale Wolk, Erinson Home Inspections Water in Your Basement is the Worst! Spring has sprung and Spring break is welcome--spring floods not so much! A wet basement is not fun, and emotion can get the best of you when your basement springs a leak. You'll want immediate action to correct the problem! But before you act, if you understand where water in a basement can originate, you'll be better prepared to take the most effective (and often least expensive) corrective steps to avoid water … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Featured, Guest spotlight, Home Maintenance, Household Tips Tagged With: basement flooding, clean, flooding, home maintenance, saving, water, water damage

Simple Health! 66 Days to a New You!

February 7, 2012 By Jan Leasure Leave a Comment

By Dr. Jordan Leasure, DC (This week's Guest Post) The Best Road to Health is the Simple Path Fresh Veggies Are the Stepping Stones to Better Health! Why is our health our greatest challenge? As a society we have built monuments, overcome adversity, learned to create fire and the wheel - yet our health remains this puzzle we are trying to put together upside down. Wouldn't it be great if doing things to improve our well being we did on a daily basis, without thinking about it? … [Read more...]

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Benefits of Healthy & Delicious Coconut Oil

January 28, 2012 By Jan Leasure Leave a Comment

Once Thought To Be Poison for our Arteries, Coconut Oil May Even Ward Off Alzheimers!

Coconut Oil, Once Thought to Be Deadly to Our Heart & Arteries, May Be Just What the Doctor Ordered! by Dr. Jordan Leasure. DC **This week's guest post is brought to you by none other than my daughter, Dr. Jordan Leasure who brings us the benefits of coconut oil! Back in the day when I was young, coconut Oil was thought to be a pariah! Found in candies and the topping for beloved movie popcorn, Coconut Oil developed a notoriously bad reputation. Today however, the tide is changing … [Read more...]

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New Year’s Eve Kisses

December 31, 2011 By Jan Leasure Leave a Comment

The New Year's Eve Kiss--Platonic, Romantic or Doglike? Oh My!

New Year's Eve Kisses by Anna Monette Roberts (Tres Sugar) gave me such a chuckle that I wanted to share it with you! We are always writing about saving, but it is New Year's Eve after all. Who hasn't fretted and stressed over what happens at the stroke of midnight? Do you have to kiss them? What will the kiss be like? Platonic, Romantic, Doglike? Oh my! This little blurb from Tres Sugar puts it all in perspective! New Year's Eve kisses can be hot and passionate, sweet and loving, or … [Read more...]

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Wine Expert “Dan In The Vines” Visits Marin’s Vinyard!

December 30, 2011 By Jan Leasure Leave a Comment

Gratitude, Perfect Name for a Perfect Wine! (Created by the USA's Youngest Vintner! Marin Wolgamott

The Story Behind the Wine This week's guest blog isn't necessarily bringing the cheapest product to us--but certainly a most interesting story! I want to take a moment to introduce this week's guest blogger, Dan Del Campo. creator of "Dan in the Vines!" Dan is not only a wine connoisseur who travels throughout Northern and Central California visiting wineries and bringing news of the most interesting new wines available, he intimately brings news of the vintners behind the labels. This week Dan … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Cheap Talk with Jan, Featured, Guest spotlight Tagged With: black diamond vinyard, dan in the vines, Marin Wolgamott, wine, youngest winemaker

What the Fork?

November 9, 2011 By Jan Leasure Leave a Comment

By Guest Blogger, Christin Accamando **Find more of Christin's fantastic blogs and other awesome info on the newest addition to Restaurant.com....The Dish! Remember that scene in Pretty Woman where Julia Roberts is in over her head at a classy Beverly Hills restaurant, confused about which fork to use? Remember her famous line, “Careful, they’re slippery little suckers!” – referring to the snail she was attempting to eat? Has this happened to you? Have you ever been invited to a … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Featured, Food and Drink, Guest spotlight, Household Tips Tagged With: ettiquette, forks, holiday, holiday dining, trivia, utesils

Let’s Get Real About Extreme Couponing

September 26, 2011 By $uper $aver Dawn Leave a Comment

Our Guest Poster this week, Rasha, shares with us her take on extreme couponing. Leave a comment and share your opinion on this topic! - Jan Extremely Unrealistic Expectations - Let's Get Real About Extreme Couponing Here we go again. The TLC show Extreme Couponing returns to TV the end of September. While we certainly love shopping with coupons, there’s no doubt this show has caused unrealistic expectations, especially among new couponers. Let’s Get Real Couponing WILL … [Read more...]

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