Lifestyle Columns
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Let Grandma be herself when visitingFeb 13, 2010 10:00 pm - Q. My wife shares my views of the extreme difficulty, on a few fronts, of her mother's extended visits to our home. My wife is amenable to discussions with her mom, ...
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Sellers have little, if anything, to gain by waiting with two mortgagesFeb 13, 2010 10:00 pm - Q. My wife and I are 79 years young, and we bought another home in a town 185 miles away from our first home. We are the original owners of our first home and have k...
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Tenant seeks special treatment after buying houseFeb 13, 2010 10:00 pm - Q. I have been a tenant in a rental home for the last few years. A few months ago I signed a new 12-month lease but I just bought a new home and will be moving in ne...
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How you use a spare bedroom will not add value to the homeFeb 11, 2010 10:00 pm - Converting an unused bedroom into a den or weight room rarely adds to or reduces the value of a property. Q. Our son recently moved out of our home, so now we have a...
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Most bathroom toilet repairs are easy and inexpensiveFeb 11, 2010 10:00 pm - The "throne" in most of our homes is the toilet. We'd be in trouble without it. But sometimes they do have problems. Thankfully, most are simple to fix. We'll cover the ...
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Up for a double dip of Brandon Jackson?Feb 11, 2010 10:00 pm - Brandon T. Jackson can be seen in two movies this weekend. He plays a comical Tooth Fairy associate in Dwayne Johnson's "The Tooth Fairy." But his character in "Percy Ja...
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Heating contractor either unqualified or deliberately misleadingFeb 11, 2010 10:00 pm - Q. I think my heating contractor is trying to rip me off. I hired him to clean my forced air furnace, but he wants to sell me a new one. My furnace makes a few crack...
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How to peek the peace on association boardsFeb 11, 2010 10:00 pm - Many associations have a problem getting enough people to serve on the board due to apathy, but that is another subject, for another column, on another day. Other associ...
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New on DVDFeb 11, 2010 10:00 pm - "Celtic Thunder: It's Entertainment" Celtic Thunder came to the attention of the American public with the group's PBS specials. Paul Michael Byrom, George Donaldson, Kei...
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Cupid misses bigtime on 'Valentine's Day'Feb 10, 2010 10:00 pm - "Valentine's Day" - strategically released just before the title's namesake holiday - presents 20 main characters or so in a constant, high-speed rotation on the silver ...