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What is that lamp?!

Sorry, if you're going to build it in why not just build in a small closet with a few low speed fans controlled by a regular wall switch timer?

Sure you don't get all the whizzy options, but it'll cost you about $3,800 less. And that's $3,800 you can use to buy renewable power through your normal utility.

Now that I think of if perhaps I'll take the shelves out next to my washer and install a little hanging closet and some fans. Thanks for the idea! :-)

"We recommend homes with larger yards or more than one dog use these. "

Why does this feel like a paid product placement?

Hot, but what's with the wiring? Having them hardwired together makes placement more difficult than it should be.

You can buy laminate from some home improvement stores and install it yourself. I'm pretty sure that the Home Depots in the area stopped carrying it, but a couple of years ago I got it from Lowe's in Woburn.

Lowes has information on installation on their site.

It's more difficult than painting but will definitely look better. Plus it's cheaper, faster and possibly easier than completely new countertops.

While not exactly as shown I think you use an induction loop and earpiece intended for other purposes. A quick Google search turned up this as an example:
http://www.showcomms.co.uk/wireless-earpiece-neckloop-ipod-p-735.html

Definitely Quicken. It attaches the receipt right to the entry so it's trivial to find it if you ever need it.

BUT

Something to keep in mind with scanned receipts is that most stores refuse to accept them for returns. For example Home Depot has a 1 year warranty on plants. When a tree died (actually never sprouted, but whatever) I brought it back to them with a print out of a scanned receipt. The cashier told me "no copies of receipts accepted". Much harumphing, complaining and escalating eventually allowed me to exchange it for a live one.

If you scan the receipts I would recommend throwing the originals into an envelope labeled with the month and year of purchase if there's any chance you might need it again. Quicken will help you find the right envelope and then it's just a matter of finding the right receipt.

I have some outdoor all weather wicker furniture from Grandin Road, some from Frontgate and some from a third, unrelated company. All are of equivalent quality and while I can't speak for the interior furniture, I'm happy with the purchase from Grandin Road.

Note that Grandin Road is just one brand owned by the same company that owns Frontgate, Ballard Design and others.

Keeping the CD means that you have a license for the music. If you get rid of the CD by selling it you are transferring the license to the purchaser of the CD and you no longer have the right to keep the MP3.

If you were to throw the CD away I'm not sure whether you'd be legal or not. Clearly you haven't transfered the license to someone else, but by the same token you can't prove that you had a license in the first place.

For our vacation home we have one of those cheap key lock boxes mounted on the wall next to the door. We figure the key is safe enough from someone stealing it and using it to get in since a real burglar would just break a window anyway.

For our home in the city we have a call box at the front door. Visitors are supposed to scroll to our name to call us and we push #9 to unlock. To make things easy on ourselves we had the management company put our cell phones in there rather than a home phone. When we forget our keys we just call ourselves from the box and let ourselves in! Now all we need to do is find a safe place to hide a key to our actual apartment... We've been trying to figure out a safe place to hide it for almost a year, so far without much luck. Thankfully we share a roof deck with our neighbors and the one time we did get locked out they let us cut through their apartment and come through the deck.