Articles covering a wide range of How To advice. Includes financial and lifestyle topics as well as family and home improvement related topics.
Lots of big city folks are looking at alternative ways of living. One way is to completely sell the corporate 9 to 5 job with suburban home, and move the family to rural America (i.e. Iowa) to start your own
Sunday’s, my wife makes* me watch TLC’s Here Come Honey Boo Boo with her. It’s about a rural Georgia family with a very unique and energetic young girl nicknamed Honey Boo Boo. Although the show is controversial for how they depict
New Year was traditionally a time for fireworks displays in Chinese culture, which is credited with inventing our love affair with pyrotechnics. Legend tells of a Chinese cook who accidentally spilled saltpeter into a cooking fire, producing a colorful dancing flame. The
There are some pieces of fire equipment that are more effective than others and the effectiveness depends on the dangers posed in your house specifically. Here is a list of some of the more commonly used pieces of fire equipment
Let me start first by saying that when it comes to large-scale, complicated home projects – I am the first to recommend we call up the professional. It’s typically the wife who thinks we can take it on. So, understand
Right about this time two years ago, I was beginning the exciting search for a condominium. After 20 years in a single family home, my love/hate relationship with house projects was tilting toward the latter. In the midst of sealing
Today it seems that you can learn to do just about anything you can imagine through YouTube. No need to visit the library or “buy the book” – you can watch a 5-minute video and you’re good to go! I
=Most people that visit, Three Thrifty Guys, will notice that we post on a number of topics from avoiding pre-mades to investing to holiday gift ideas. However, today I’m getting back to basics and focusing on how to save a
When it comes time to protect yourself on the road, you want to know how to find cheap insurance. First and foremost, it is about comparing rates and different companies. When companies have to have better rates than the competition,
To me, one of the most frustrating things is paying for something online and then finding out later I could have gotten it cheaper elsewhere. This sometimes happens when a new online sale pops up or a coupon or voucher
