I got this email from my wife this afternoon. You want to know what’s new and exciting in my life? This is about as good as it gets: Hi Hon, I stumbled across the best fertilizer for the garden today! Lama poop! AND…we can get a bunch FREEEEEEEE!!!!! How’s that for great? You just have …
Category Archive: Home Improvement
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Dec
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Direct Buy Makes Contact
Sometimes, having a blog seems like a lot of work. Sometimes it’s wicked fun. And every once in awhile something jumps up and bites you in the ass (er, I mean, surprises the heck out of you). This was the case this fall when out of the blue, I got an email at my school …
Apr
12
Direct Buy: Most Loyal Employees in the Trade?
What’s it called when a blogger starts to write about things that happen on his own blog? Most of the time it’s under a headline like, “How I got 100,000 visitors in 30 days,” or “My Google Adsense Figures,” or something like that. Heck, I’ve even done it once. It’s like the blog takes on …
Mar
19
Direct Buy Membership: A Consumer Report
Direct Buy and the Magic of Lead Generation I don’t know how many times I’d seen it. That chipper blond, the irritatingly giddy couples explaining how much money they’ve saved, the irrefutable logic of being able to purchase things directly from manufacturers, avoiding all those costly markups. If you’ve seen the infomercial, you know what …
Feb
27
What to do about those pesky boxelder bugs
I’m wondering if anyone else out there has noticed anything suspicious about the bugs around their house lately. The word “bug” is a scientific term biologists use to combine two species: The Family of Animals That You Can Kill With A Rolled Up Magazine, and The Family Of Animals That Are Too Quick For That. …
Feb
26
It’s 15 Degrees, The Furnace is Broken—It’s Go Time!
“Something’s wrong.” I’m not a high stakes gambler. I’ve never made or lost millions in business. Never fought in a foreign war (hell, never even been in a fist fight). I’m not a superstar anything. Don’t drive fast cars, drink, mess around with either women or drugs. So how do I know I’m alive? I’ll …
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