If you’re like us and ordered the Twin Draft Guards when it was oh…0 degrees outside, chances are you got a rude awakening and were told it was on backorder after you ordered. I checked twice to see when it was coming in and was told they couldn’t give me an estimate. We saw them at Bed, Bath and Beyond for HALF the price of what they advertise on tv for the same ones. So we grabbed them and ran home to cancel. Oh, surprise of surprises, they just happened to ship it that day and could not cancel the order. (Something tells me this is their practice when people are tired of waiting, tell them it was sent and get it out the next day.) Hubby cut them to fit and honestly, we noticed no real difference and the one on the garage door moves constantly when you open the door and you end up shutting the door on it. Then you shove it back in its place angrily and close the door and grumble. The box we received from them directly was badly damaged so there’s no way we could’ve sent it back without packing taping it to death which I also think was on purpose since I called to cancel and they wanted to make it harder to send it back. Trust me, it left the factory in this condition, I highly doubt the shipping company did it. So we’ll be taking the ones we got a Bed, Bath and Beyond back because it’s not worth having extras around the house and given how crappy they are, I’d be embarrassed to give it as a gift.
Maybe you’ll have better luck than we did but we just did not see any kind of noticeable difference and especially not one that made it worth the almost $30 we paid by the time they screwed us on shipping too. (Because remember when you order direct you get their crappy over the door hooks to hang something on until the spot welds give out.)
So if you’re going to buy the Twin Draft Guards, go to Bed, Bath and Beyond and get it for $9.99 and no shipping costs!
This isn’t a review for this workout but I’m just curious, why are they coming out with a Dirty Dancing workout 20 years after the movie? “Learn to move like Baby and Johnny” is what the trailer touts. Um, okay. So since Patrick Swayze is now in the forefront of the news with his cancer, does some money grubbing douche feel like they’d better do it while he’s still alive?? I just don’t understand why this would come out now. I mean for all of your Dirty Dancing fans, have at it but it just seems a little suspect to me. If I’m going to buy a dance/workout video for Dirty Dancing then I want someone from the movie in it. Sorry…as you were…
You know I was all hyped up about the HD thing and perhaps that was because I drank the Kool-Aid my husband was serving about how much more enhanced life would seem if I could see the wrinkles and bags of the local TV news anchor who is desperately trying to hold onto her youth. We have an HD ”pro-sumer” camera for our business and this of course meant that we’d need the HDTV in which to view our work because the HD computer monitor apparently just wouldn’t do. Might I just say that between Adobe Premiere sucking ass and basically ripping you off when asking for $300 for an upgrade that doesn’t work, a Phillips Blu-Ray drive that is an obvious lemon that we now have to try to get replaced and the scanning of 5,000 posts at Canon online forums of anal retentive albeit helpful know-it-alls as to why this or that glitch occurred it is obvious that Blu-Ray has some work to do before those without multimillion dollar budgets are able to breeze along with production. (Award for longest run on sentence please) Hubby bitches that had Sony just sucked it up and realized HD DVD was ready to roll on all levels except that of the disc space available, we wouldn’t be in this predicament. Me? I just know I’ve had a headache and slow building stress muscle twitches for 14 days and I’m ready for that to be over with. Wake me when Blu-Ray becomes user friendly.
We live in a ‘burb but just far enough away from tornado sirens that it wouldn’t wake us in the middle of the night. (I can’t imagine too many people would wake unless they’re right next door to it or they’re light sleepers) Because there has been a rash of weird weather this year, we decided to invest in a weather radio. You know the one thing you always say you should get once bad weather passes and never do?
I love the one we got by First Alert. It has S.A.M.E. technology and you can program what alerts you receive. Like we don’t need to know if a typhoon is coming because we’re not in an area that gets them but we do live in an area that sees tornados so we programmed to be alerted when a tornado warning is issued. Now it does have watch and warning lights on the unit that will blink as long as they are active or until you click to read them and then they’ll go solid and turn off when the alert expires. You can choose 2 types of alerts, either a full on alarm that continues to go off or an alarm goes off for 10 seconds followed by a voice alert that reads the bulletin from the National Weather Service. Of course when you set it up you never know if it works or not until you have the particular alert you chose. Last night at 11:30pm, our tornado warning went off just as we were heading up to bed. We never would’ve known because we just turned off a movie we were watching. So down to the basement we went with it and watched the local news until it passed at 12:30am. That paid for itself in that one use because while we had no touchdowns, there were funnel clouds and some that popped up with little warning at all and we were already in the basement when they did. If you’ve been putting off buying a weather radio no matter where you live, you should invest in one. I highly recommend the one we bought and it’s not very expensive at all. (And because it’s over $25 with Amazon, shipping is free!)
With everyone feeling the pinch at the grocery store and trying to make better food choices, how can you make your dollar stretch longer? Well I had been looking at the option of buying a FoodSaver to make my own stir fries and marinate/sanction out those big value packs of bonesless chicken breasts. I finally broke down and bought one along with a few rolls of the plastic bags.
A usual bag of pre-made stir fry veggies which gets me one use typically costs $3.50. I bought carrots, celery, zucchini, bamboo shoots, water chestnuts, broccoli and green onions. That stuff totaled $11.00 and I got 4 nights of stir fries out of them which averaged to $2.75. Now maybe saving $3.00 doesn’t sound like a big deal but it saves me from having to pick out the freezer burnt green beans and red peppers which I don’t care for which is money in the trash can. I know they’re fresh, the volume is more and no preservatives.
We also used to use 2 chicken breasts and cut them up but as I thin cut those frozen chicken breasts, I realized by thin cutting them we could use one and have it appear like just as much as two, thereby doubling the amount of dinners I can get out of them. I also pre cut each chicken breast and put in a marinade so I would just have to open and stir fry and save my time.
Yes, it took a long time to do (about 3 hours with cutting, peeling, etc) but I watched my soaps while I did it and now all of our dinners for next week are taken care of. Instead of buying those bagged salads we’re making our own and are going to get a canister for that so it keeps longer. Those bagged salads were only good for 2-3 days after we opened them.
So just in my one use of this machine, I can already see the money and time savings for the future. If you use one, feel free to share your experience!
See this ugly piece o’ crap? It’s called the PetSafe Outdoor Ultrasonic Bark Deterrent. We got this to deter the yap happy Sheltie next door from barking at everything. (You know…birds, people passing by, clouds forming, dust settling, trees falling in forests in Brazil) We aimed it at the offenders porch (which is 15 ft away…WELL within the 50 yd radius it claims it works within) and tried it on every level of sensitivity and nothing. I was tricked the first day into thinking it was working but she must’ve been reacting to something else. Figures.
Sheltie temperment + irresponsible owner = bad neighbor relations and this was our last hope before complaining to the association. I don’t want to be one of THOSE people but we’re both not even able to relax in our own home anymore. I am keeping it in case we get another small dog and it will hopefully work in that instance during training because unlike our rude neighbor we want to be responsible. But for crazy eyed demon dogs who are starved for attention even if it’s bad, it does nothing. (But then again the dog is locked up for 10-12 hours a day during the week) Some people claim it works for them and maybe it does for some but it didn’t for us.
The dog is attacking the door as I type and the owner does nothing. I wonder, is there some kind of shock collar or corrective device I can put on the owner to make her get off her lazy ass and be a responsible dog owner?? I’ve had dreams where I’m tazing her (owner)…is that bad?
I don’t know about you but I find it highly irritating when I go to the grocery store and come out to find some local business has jammed a flyer under my windsheild wiper. I don’t need your coupons, I don’t need to know what your latest sale is and I don’t need a grand opening fyi. I don’t like the idea of someone touching my car either. So out of that a simple solution was made. I’ve been sliding this little darling on my dashboard when I go inside and I’ve been immune to the flyer issue while others have them on their cars.
I don’t know if they figure someone who would put that in plain sight would probably come visit them in a rather unpleasant way if they ignored it but it does keep them away. If you’re sick of your car being yet another way for people to spam you, click here to get yours.
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