Here are our best garage & yard sale tips to help you find the best bargains at rock-bottom prices! Included are: the best free online yard sale map sites to help you plan your route, tips for finding the lowest prices on the best items, and how to haggle.
Money-Saving Ideas
Here, homeowners are sharing their favorite money-saving household tips. See fun ways to repurpose everyday items, how to make common household products yourself (like DIY toilet spray, storage organizers, soap, fabric softener, door stops & more), frugal yard sale shopping tips, and moving tips that will save you big bucks.
Whole House Surge Protectors vs Power Strip Surge Protectors
Most power strip surge protectors provide the minimum level of protection for everyday household items. But is that really enough protection for your home electronics and appliances? Are power strips the best way to protect your things from lightning strikes and sudden jolts of electricity? The fact is, you might want to consider a whole house surge protector. Here’s why.
Biggest And Best Yard Sales In America
The World’s Longest Yard Sale takes place each August and runs 654 miles along Highway 127 from Alabama to Kentucky. However, the ‘world’s largest’ yard sale isn’t the ONLY really big, really cool yard sale in America! Here are some of the best and biggest yard sales across the country…
7 Speed Cleaning Tips From A Professional House Cleaner
As a professional house cleaner, I’ve whittled my best speed cleaning tips down to 7. Hopefully, these tips will help you get your cleaning chores done quickly, while still doing a good job.
Renters Insurance: Do You Need It? What’s Covered? What’s Not Covered?
If you rent an apartment, or a house, then you’re probably wondering if you should buy renters insurance or not. So, who really needs to buy renter’s insurance? Here’s what you need to know about insurance for renters.
When It Pays To Hire A Professional For Home Repairs & Home Projects And When It’s Better To Do It Yourself
In the end, doing everything yourself will usually cost more — in terms of money, wasted time, and errors due to inexperience. Tackling too many DIY projects will also cost you in terms of the amount of time you could have spent with your family and the time you could have spent taking care of yourself.
6 Ways To Save Money When Moving
Most of us have had to pack up and move at least once in our lives. And, this isn’t always the most fun experience. Plus, it can be downright expensive to move. I recently moved myself, and I learned a few interesting things along the way — some of them the hard way. So, if you don’t have the extra money to pay for movers to come and pack up your stuff and move it for you, then you’ll enjoy these money-saving tips.
Freecycle: What Do You Want… For Free? What Have You Got… For Free? (It’s Like A Fun Random Act Of Kindness!)
Freecycle is a great place to find free stuff AND a great place to give away free stuff! Here’s how to find a Freecycle group in your area. Plus my tips for making the most of Freecycle locally.