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I just found out that Home Depot is giving away $25,000 in gift cards over the next 10 days. Here’s how it works: the first 50 people each day to spend $350 or more on homedepot.com, from Friday, Dec. 12 through Sunday, Dec. 21, will get a FREE $50 gift card from The Home Depot. Read More …
The response to the contest has been phenomenal! I’d like to thank everyone who has entered, and remind you that you can enter once per day. Its nice to see people still believe in snail mail with the entries that are keeping the Postal Service employed. Good luck.
This is the second part of the drum brake replacement. There is another post for the removal of the drum brakes. For the installation parts I didn’t want to mess around with getting individual springs and shoes so I purchased an overhaul kit. Because this is part of the < $880 project I’m listing the Read More …
I started to go to World of Concrete in 2007 because I was interested in concrete counter tops. Luckily that was the year at least 1/3 of the vendors had something to do with concrete counter tops. Each year changes a little depending on the market focus, but who doesn’t like standing next to a Read More …
The Friday after Thanksgiving, commonly known as Black Friday, is biggest shopping day of the year for retailers. I usually buy used tools to save money, but this is the time of the year I make an exception. Depending on the item, you can save anywhere from 15 – 50% off. With people really looking Read More …
The Cool Tools Holiday Blitz starts Thursday November 27 through Sunday the 30th at 7am to 11 pm each day. So when your not shopping during that Black Friday weekend you can sip on your favorite frosty beverage to some of Chris Grundy’s quotes like, “you know how I roll” and “excuse me while I Read More …
For Las Vegas things start getting cold right after Halloween, lucky us. I was recently contacted by a Home Depot associate and asked to relay the following energy saving quick tips for the winter. They cover some of the most common areas for improving the efficiency of a home. I’ve done some expansion with what Read More …
Even though I’ve been woodworking on and off for a couple of years I still don’t have a set of sharpening stones. Of course I have one of those Arkansas whetstones where the grit difference on one side is probably 80 and the other side around 200. I came across and article a while back Read More …
I recently had to rebuild my Windows XP machine. These are the top 5 free Windows applications I have to install. AVG antivirus – antivirus software is the first thing I put on after applying all the Microsoft patches. I believe the statistic is that it only takes 15 minutes for a PC to get Read More …
The vendor exhibit has a good variety of companies from local to national and small start-ups trying to get a distributor to large established companies like Kohler. The SWAG is pretty good. Revive organic soil treatment actually gave away a 1/2 gallon sample. Here are some images from this morning’s visit. Project WET Education Program Read More …