Lifestyle Columns
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Super Handyman: Tips to help you adapt your home as you ageSep 16, 2011 1:30 am - More and more, we are seeing people opt to stay in their homes as they age, rather than move to retirement homes and the like. You can do a lot of things to your home to...
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About Real Estate: With sales slow, offering home as ‘fixer upper’ is a bad ideaSep 16, 2011 12:00 am - Home sellers who don#146;t make inexpensive cosmetic changes or easy repairs may risk a 20-percent drop in their sale price. Q. We are planning to put ...
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The nation’s housing: Changes in title insurance industrySep 16, 2011 12:00 am - WASHINGTON — When you spent $2,000 to $3,000 to buy title insurance and closing services on your home purchase or refinance, did you really know where your money was goi...
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Home inspector: Color coding different for commercial wiringSep 16, 2011 12:00 am - Q. Are the electrical wires in a home color-coded for positive, negative and ground? Our wires are brown, blue, and green/yellow. Which ones should we connect to whi...
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Learn what's what in added sugarSep 15, 2011 6:00 am - Picture, if you will, 26 five-pound bags of sugar lined up on your kitchen table. That's a lot of sugar, right? Now consider this: Those bags represent how much added su...
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Chopped salad for allSep 15, 2011 6:00 am - Do you like chopped salads? I do! I love that with a chopped salad, you get a little bit of everything in every bite. When my kids were younger, a chopped salad was a su...
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Quick eggs and slow dinnerSep 13, 2011 10:00 am - I know mornings can be hectic. The dog wants to go out ... again ... your son can't find the homework he spent an hour working on last night and your daughter wants help...
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Favorite niece wants to share the wealthSep 12, 2011 1:00 am - Q. I have a fairly well-to-do aunt and uncle who have no children and choose to share their wealth with their nieces and nephews. However, some of us benefit more ...
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Hand washing key to avoiding nasty GI parasiteSep 12, 2011 1:00 am - It was not, the teen thought, a really great way to spend a week of her summer vacation. At least she wasn't throwing up, but all the other unpleasant GI symptoms were t...
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No flour, no sugar diet adjustableSep 12, 2011 1:00 am - Editor's note: After 28 years of writing a health advice column, Dr. Peter Gott is retiring. His last column will be Monday, Sept. 19. Q. I just started using y...