by Violeta | Household, Garden & Various Hobbies
Your refrigerator has been making peculiar noises for a while, and you suspect it’s on its last legs. You know you’ll have to buy another one but you’re not sure which type to choose. There is a vast array of brands and styles to look at, and...
by Violeta | Household, Garden & Various Hobbies
One of my best friends wants to buy a car seat for her little daughter. She came to me to ask for help, so we did the research together. We spent last evening looking at various models and we came up with a list of points one needs to check when buying a car seat for...
by Violeta | Household, Garden & Various Hobbies
How many appliances can one buy during a lifetime? I can buy lots! There’s always something I need more than what I already have. Like coffee makers: I’ve got one, but it makes lousy coffee. I can’t stop myself wishing to buy a better coffee machine. At my last job,...
by Violeta | Household, Garden & Various Hobbies
Air purifiers have different effectiveness levels. There is a standard which measures this. It is called CADR and it stands for Clean Air Delivery Rate. It indicates the volume of filtered air delivered by the air cleaner per time unit, adjusted with the particle...
by Violeta | Household, Garden & Various Hobbies
I love my pressure cooker. It helps me spend less time cooking, because foods boil so much faster in it. I have one of those basic stainless steel pressure cookers, without any bells and whistles such steam gauges or multiple pressure settings. Even so, I’m very...
by Violeta | Household, Garden & Various Hobbies
The advantage of insomnia is that you have a lot of time for thinking. The disadvantage is that you can’t direct your mind to enjoyable thoughts only. I discovered that thinking about practical things helps keeping unwanted thoughts away. Last night was one of...
