There are some nice Philippines hotels and resorts in the Olongapo City and Subic Bay (adjacent to Olongapo City) areas and there are some that are not so nice. Other than the Philippines hotel and resort offerings at the Subic Bay Freeport Zone, I can't tell you which are which. Based on my past [...]

The house I grew up in, my parents' house, has metal cabinets in the kitchen. All of the cabinets. In modern new homes, most kitchen cabinets are made of cheap wood products, including particle board. Which lasts longer? Well, if you're in a dry climate like the Arizona desert (as my parents are), the metal [...]

Despite everything you've heard, there really are some companies doing their best to take us away from using fossil fuels to produce energy. BP is one such company. Can you imagine how clean the air would be and how much money we could save by using clean, renewable energy sources such as the light from [...]

Before I sold my previous house in 2006, I spent a lot of time and effort cleaning my garage floor to remove motor oil and other automotive fluids. I could have saved myself a lot of that time and effort, as well as the money I spent on cleaning supplies, if I had taken the [...]

In late 2005 and early 2006, I spent quite some time doing repairs of the house I eventually sold. I think I could have saved myself a lot of headaches and a lot of money if I had just known about DoItYourself.com. I didn't know about the website and I probably spent three or four [...]

I'm sure you've seen them. Those mailboxes sitting in front of really nice houses that look like they were bought at department stores at a huge discount. Some of them have those horrible stick-on numbers and some of them even look like the numbers were painted on by worn out paint brushes.
This is where a [...]