You visit a website, you like what you see and you sign up for their newsletter. You get lots of cool information, and you also get links to products you might want to buy. You start to click the link, and then you think: this is exactly how “phishing” and all that scary stuff works. Should you click? Is it safe, or is it just going to take you to ... READ MORE
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Avon differentiated itself from other cosmetic companies by having representatives demonstrate items for you in your home, taking your order, then leave a catalog with you so you could order anything else you wanted later. Their prices were always very affordable because they didn’t rely on big stores to distribute their products.
Now things are moving online, and Avon is keeping up with the times. Instead of ordering from a catalog, ... READ MORE
If it’s time to buy new carpeting, you have a number of choices ahead of you. Color is probably the easiest choice, but you must also decide among a number of styles, textures and types of fiber. There are also different grades of carpet within each style, and different qualities. This article defines the different styles available.
Carpeting styles
Plush carpeting is a lightly twisted pile style. The color is uniform and ... READ MORE
Buying toys for children is not that simple – even for your own. Your mission is to find a toy that’s affordable, that’s durable enough to outlast the child’s interest in it, that’s the child’s idea of “cool” or desirable, that’s safe, that’s age appropriate and that will keep the child’s interest. Believe it or not, what the child says she wants is not necessarily what will hold her interest ... READ MORE
I’ve heard it said frugality is a lifestyle, but more accurately, it’s a collection many different lifestyles. Not everyone can be frugal in the same ways. Someone who works eighty hours a week, for example, probably cannot find time to grind his own flour. Someone who’s unemployed and cash-poor probably cannot afford to buy spiffy water saving toilets for his home. Fortunately, there are other ways to be less wasteful ... READ MORE
LCD TVs are coming down in price slowly but surely. Selection is on the rise, and so is competition, and that’s driving prices down to roughly what old-style TVs used to cost. It’s not that difficult to find a decent or good LCD TV for just a few hundred dollars – far lower than the price tags in the thousands of a few years ago.
Where to find cheap LCD TVs
There ... READ MORE
Magazine subscriptions can be a great gift, particularly for people you don’t know well. Basically, you just find out which subjects interest them and pick a magazine on that topic. One caveat: some people don’t appreciate magazines because they feel these publications are wasting paper. On the other hand, there are magazines for those with environmental interests and concerns, so it depends on that individual’s attitude. Just something to be ... READ MORE
Do you know what you need to look for in a wet-dry vacuum? If you’re shopping for one, it can be a little frustrating because there are so many different options and capabilities these machines can have. You need to know what’s available to determine what you need, and once you know what you need, you can choose the best option from what’s available.
What do you need it to do?
Where ... READ MORE
Shopping online was a little scary in the 1990s. The technology didn’t always work so well, and security was an issue. That’s all changed now: most websites are very secure and use software that doesn’t cause browser hiccups, leaving you to wonder if you’ve made a purchase or not.
That said, there are some small, cheap websites out there that aren’t up to date. Here’s how to tell when you’ve found ... READ MORE
