Find good old media at thrift stores Anyone who knows me, knows that I eschew subscription services that require payment. I’ll do whatever it takes to avoid paying for all you can eat services like Amazon’s Prime music or even Netflix. You can read more about some of specific efforts to hold onto old media […]
Bathroom technology on a small budget Continuing on with our quick fix to a small apartment bathroom, you can read the first post in this series here. These days, you really can’t get away from technology and for me, the bathroom is no different. I come up with some of my best ideas while […]
More Amazon Stores When Googling the topic of “Amazon store”, one of the articles proclaimed that they “sucked the joy out of shopping for a book.” That seemed a bit harsh, so I wanted to check it out myself. I was curious how they might interpret and enhance the shopping experience. After all, they’re […]
A product review is a powerful thing. Why am I qualified to write them? In a word. I’m anal. I don’t rest until I find the absolute best product with the greatest features and at the optimal price. As I considered my search for better cabinet and closet lighting solutions, I started to run […]
Call me paranoid or old school, but I just can’t bring myself to get rid of my DVD/Blu Ray collection. Over the years, I’ve amassed a collection that exceed 1,200 discs. A rough “back of the envelope” calculation at an average price of $15 each, has that coming to an $18,000 investment. That is a […]
I order a lot of items from Amazon. I’d say I order most of what I purchase from Amazon, with the exception of groceries and daily staple products, like toilet paper, paper towels, peanut butter, and other things I can usually consume quickly and/or need on short notice. When I used to run the numbers […]