08.10.2008 04:01
Hands-on time: An hour and a half.Total time: Add three and a half hours of drying time.Skill: Easy.Cost estimate: Approximately $35.00 to create the centerpiece and accents (pillar candle cost not included, candles can vary in price depending on how many you buy and where buy them).
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08.10.2008 04:00
Efficient people like my friend Hazel have already started buying Christmas presents. Hazel does not have trouble making decisions. Hazel can look at billions of gift possibilities and choose the perfect one. When I asked Hazel what's wrong with shopping on December 24th, she laughed. I didn't.
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23.07.2008
Q: How should I repair a basement water leak? Two contractors suggest fixing it from the inside by taking down the drywall along one basement wall.
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16.07.2008
Shopping is not always rational. The bigger the purchase, the less rational you may become. For example, my vehicle purchases have always hinged on the cup holders. When it comes to buying a home, few people remain rational. We 'fall in love' with a house. Love is not rational.
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16.07.2008
Outdoor power products like gas-powered chainsaws, weed trimmers, leaf blowers and water pumps really do run more cleanly and efficiently these days, and an incidental side-by-side comparison I stumbled upon this past summer proved it to me.
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10.07.2008
I recently reported a smelly basement adventure. For some readers, that story just created questions. I admire that. Because a homeowner's most important tool is curiosity. The second most important tool is persistence.
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10.07.2008
Hands-on time: 30 minutes.Total time: 1 day (depending on the artwork).Skill: Easy and kid-friendly.Cost estimate: Less than $18.
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08.07.2008
Twenty-five agriculture and consumer groups, including three based in Wisconsin, have asked the U.S. Senate for immediate public hearings and oversight of the nation’s largest dairy cooperative, Dairy Farmers of America.
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08.07.2008
Brookfield - The Fourth of July holiday weekend was a dry one for Pepino's in Brookfield, whose liquor license expired June 30 after the business was late in filing its license renewal forms.
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05.07.2008
Stevens Point - For more than 100 years, Stevens Point Brewery was best known for its Point Special brand, known as "The Blue Bullet," an inexpensive, mainstream lager nicknamed for its familiar blue label.
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04.07.2008
Sales at Milwaukee-area coffee houses continue to percolate as java jackets slip onto more cups, and household coffee pots are filled with more locally sold brew. Sales at some locally owned shops have risen from 0.2% to 10% for the first half of 2008 compared with the first half of 2007.
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03.07.2008
There's something less than ideal about the way new Canadian homes are insulated, and drywallers see it more clearly than most.
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