Asha Anujeeva

When mytarp.com states that they have the “Largest Selection of Professional Tarps” they weren’t kidding. I have found a need for a few new tarps for the up and coming spring season that I am so looking forward to getting into. I heard that winter is half way over and the ground hog didn’t see his shadow yesterday which means that we will have an early spring, so these are two positive things to think about and keep me going for another month or so.

I love spending as much time as I can outside during the warm and hot weather months. I’v been known  to known to stay outside until dark which during the middle of summer can be as late at 9:00pm and then go in and start fixing dinner. There is no specific dinner time at my house. It’s usually when it gets dark and when I get around to it. Anyway with all of the work that is going to be going on around come spring I have decided to start looking around online and comparing prices on those bright blue tarps and you see all over the place these days, and mytarp has all of the tarps and coverings that one could even imagine. Tarps in just about every color, fabric and size not just the boring old blue tarp that we have become accustomed to seeing every where we look.

This guest post from Edgardo Rosa

Some of my best holiday memories involve spending forever to get to houses with lights that we visited every year. Being able to use the same electricity that made the toaster work to turn your roof into Santas’s workshop always seemed magical. I was a weird kid, and since we lived in Texas most of my life, we didn’t see much snow. So for me, Christmas was coming because you could see the lights on top of people’s homes.

Over the years the vehicles we rode in changed, and everything else about the way we enjoyed Christmas changed, one thing that never changed was the area we went to look in. It was always no more than a few miles from home, and I remember thinking how sad it was when houses that had lights out the previous year didn’t this year. And I cried for days when a house that I loved, got robbed just a few days after they put their lights up.

I am grateful to my parents for so many things. They taught me how to be the person I wanted to be, and how important family traditions are. The thieves who robbed the house that year taught me how important it is to set the alarm from SecurityChoice.com/ when you leave the house, even when you’re just excited to see more lights.

It has been in the news a lot lately about how important it is to have easily read information on people’s house mailboxes. It seems that a good amount of emergency personnel experience a hard time getting to the destination that has been assigned to them, especially at night. Police, Fire and Rescue all need to be able to read the name and the address in a crisis. I know that I like having my pizza delivered while it is still hot so I always make sure that my information is easy to read!

Mailboxes have always been subject to vandalism. And now with Identity Theft such an issue we all need to make sure that are mail is being kept safe until we can retrieve it. I have always felt safer myself with the nice wall mounted mailboxes that they have such a great variety to choose from these days. A wall mount mailbox keeps your incoming and your outgoing mail closer to you, which is so much safer than having a mailbox at the end of your driveway by the street.

I’m thinking that with one of my gift cards that I received for Christmas I might look around online and see if I can find a good deal on one of these wall mount mailboxes. The one that I have is so old and shabby looking at this point so a new one really is in order. I’m hoping that I can find a good after Christmas sale going on and look for free shipping and I’ll be a happy and safe camper all the way around!

Guest post written by Amy Cruz

I’m really excited for all of my friends to come over and see my brand new apartment. I just moved in about a month ago and I finally have everything in order and decorated like I want it. I’ll probably have to do some redecorating after the holidays because I have my Christmas decorations up now. But I thought that I would not only have a housewarming party, but to also a Christmas party. Most of my friends go home for the actual holidays anyway so I thought this would be a nice get-together before we all leave.

But the one thing about the apartment is that the person who lived there before was a smoker, so the smell still lingers. So I’m coming up with a great DIY potpourri recipe for the occasion. As I was looking online for a potpourri recipe a few nights ago, I found some information about satellite internet packages and decided to order one of them for my home service.

I decided that holiday simmering potpourri would probably be the easiest to make and will have the most staying power too. Maybe if I use that more often than just during my party, I can get the cigarette smell out of my apartment.

I’ve been seeing a lot of commercials and advertisements for a company that claims to sell fantastic Wholesale Products through a showroom and the commercial has a lot of average looking people giving testimonials about how great these Wholesalers are and how much money they saved by using them.  The whole idea was that the products would be sent straight from the Wholesale Suppliers direct to the consumer, which eliminates the middleman – the retailer.  In theory it sounds great.

I was thinking about joining them and went online and asked for a free one day membership card to be sent to me so I could check them out for myself.  I waited about three months and sent another request.  Another three months and a third request.  I told my parents that I was thinking about going to the showroom and checking them out and asked them if they knew anything about them.  They told me that they had joined them and paid about a $300 membership fee and then never did use any of the products.  They said that everything that they wanted to get from the catalog was no longer available, or was more expensive than what they could buy at a local store.  I went online and did some research and found that there were a lot of complaints about that particular company!  So my advice to you, dear readers, is to beware of joining any kind of wholesale club that charges an exorbitant membership fee before you can really check them out.