How to Get a Better Harvest With Companion Planting

How to Get a Better Harvest With Companion PlantingNature is amazing…from the beneficial insects who protect our gardens from nasty pests intent on destroying it, to the bees and birds that help to pollinate it, the more we know and understand how to use what nature gives us to our advantage, the healthier our plants…and our lives will be. Read More


How To Create A Realistic Home Maintenance Budget

How To Create A Realistic Home Maintenance BudgetAdvice abounds on the web about creating your annual home maintenance budget, and while there’s some truth to the belief that saving anything towards home maintenance is better than saving nothing at all, the fact is that by saving too much for your home’s maintenance, other areas of your budget can end up being sparse when they really don’t need to be. Read More


Why You Should Do a Home Inventory This Summer

Why You Should Do a Home Inventory This SummerHave you done a home inventory? 

If not – or if it’s been a long time – summer is the best time of the year to do it…the weather is good and since the kids are home, you can enlist their help to get your inventory completed faster. Read More