by Susanne Dwyer | Jan 8, 2017 | Advice, Home Spun Wisdom, How-To, Latest News, Lifestyle |
(TNS)—Joseph Ponessa has some thoughts about stucco that I want to share with you. Ponessa is professor emeritus of housing, indoor environment, and health at Rutgers Cooperative Extension. He got in touch after I wrote an article about a lawsuit by the Commonwealth...
by Susanne Dwyer | Jan 7, 2017 | Advice, Consumer, Home Spun Wisdom, Latest News, Lifestyle, News |
Home safety is an important, even life-saving topic that you should teach your children about at an early age. If you educate your children on basic home safety principles when they’re young, the lessons will stick with them for a lifetime. Learn to lock a...
by Susanne Dwyer | Jan 5, 2017 | Advice, Home Spun Wisdom, How-To, Latest News, Lifestyle |
(TNS)—You are planning a cruise, and you leave Los Angeles to fly to your port. Suddenly you are stuck in Chicago and your hopes of making it to your embarkation point in time are eroding with every tick of the clock. Your nightmare comes true; you don’t make...
by Susanne Dwyer | Jan 1, 2017 | Advice, Home Spun Wisdom, How-To, Latest News, Lifestyle |
(TNS)—After redoing our 10-year-old yard with new plants and patio, we added the icing on the cake: bird feeders for our feathered friends. After planting eastern red cedars, hollies and other bird-attracting plants in the natural area outback, we visited several...
by Susanne Dwyer | Dec 14, 2016 | Advice, Home Improvement, Home Spun Wisdom, Latest News, Lifestyle |
(TNS)—In the developing world of smart home devices, there are several that will light up your life. A few months ago, I settled on one of them, the Insteon package of electrical plugs and switches, to set up lighting zones in my house. Most smart home products turn...
by Susanne Dwyer | Dec 12, 2016 | Advice, Home Spun Wisdom, How-To, Latest News, Lifestyle |
(TNS)—As e-commerce takes more of Americans’ shopping dollars, the opportunity for web-based fraud increases. Not only are more thieves lurking, shoppers’ comfort with e-commerce is leading to risky behavior. A 2016 Holiday Shopping Survey, conducted this...