It can get pretty chilly during some winter months out where my husband and I live, but we try to conserve on how much energy we use, especially since the power bills can be outrageously high.  We figured that it didn't make sense to heat the entire apartment by turning on the whole heating system, which ended up making our monthly electric bills go sky high, so we decided to go for a ...

The full title of this book is Battlefield of the Mind: Winning the Battle in Your Mind.  I bought it during a particularly difficult time in my life, where, frankly, my faith was not at its highest point and some of life's challenges seemed to be kicking me pretty hard in the backside.   My husband and I often watched Joyce Meyer's television show in the m...

I have been doing much personal research on alternative healthcare remedies, primarily because I want to learn about natural ways to improve the health of my household. I had heard about Dr. Julian Whitaker for several years and decided to subscribe to his Health and Healing newsletter a few months ago. As a paid subscribed member, I receive a snail-mail newsletter every month that focuses on s...

I know that we all have to be careful what we eat, especially as we get older, but, confound it, sometimes you just have to go off track and indulge yourself occasionally!  One of my guiltiest of pleasures is buying a Mars Milky Way Bar.  Chocolate, caramel, nougat, all rolled up into one scrumptious candy bar!  Eating this product is not something I can do a lot, but, when I do ...

My husband and I happen to live in an apartment that has minimal lighting.  One reason, quite truthfully, is due to our desire to be "frugal", in order to cut down on the sometimes mountainous power bills bestowed upon us by our local electric company.  We are always seeking  products to save us money and, at the same time, provide us with a little assistance in ge...

The full title of the book is "Your Best Life Now: 7 Steps to Living at Your Full Potential."  I bought it after having watched  televangelist Joel Osteen on his Sunday morning religious broadcast a number of times.  He has always impressed me by the fact that he is a welcome contrast to some television ministers who either scowl and scream at you or spend half of ...

Allure Magazine is a beauty-related publication geared towards women.  I have been receiving it for over a year, since a well-meaning friend of mine paid for a subscription as a gift, but I  have somewhat mixed feelings about it.  Allure does provide good ideas on makeup and fashion, but I was hoping for a magazine with a little more substance.  You can o...

I suffer from occasional back problems and when they hit, they can be pretty painful and uncomfortable. I suffer from occasional back problems and when they hit, they can be pretty painful and uncomfortable. I have relied on Extra Strength Icy Hot, an analgesic cream, for quite a while.  It is a deep heating rub especially geared towards achy muscles and joints, arthritis and other minor m...

As I approach the beginning stages of menopause, I am starting to  experience many unwanted physical changes.  Among the more aggravating ones is that my hormones are causing me to have hair growth in areas I don't prefer to have it, particularly on my face.  While I hardly resemble Gene Shalit, I do get some slight growth above my lip on occasion.  I tried using regular...

I have a somewhat sentimental attachment to the Ladies' Home Journal magazine, probably because my mother subscribed to it for years, when I was growing up.  I always enjoyed reading her copies and, even as a girl, found them interesting and informative.  As an adult, I kind of forgot about this publication.  However, my husband got me a subscription as a gift and it was one ...

Home Business Magazine is a publication designed to showcase articles, ideas and concepts about -obviously- home business.  Lots of people nowadays are giving serious consideration to starting their own home-based enterprise, especially with rising prices in just about everything. Job stability is not as sure a thing as it once was, so the idea of going into business for yourself and havin...

I have always loved reading through a "Good Housekeeping" magazine, chiefly because most of the content is so interesting and there is always something I can relate to.  This publication has been around since 1885, so the very fact that they are still in existence says a lot about their ability to put out a magazine women want to read.  "Good Housekeeping...

Everything about Oprah Winfrey is first class,so it's no surprise that the magazine that bears her name is equally top drawer. "O" is the essential "girl talk" magazine, as if you and some of your best friends were clustered together somewhere, discussing both the important and trivial topics on your mind. Carefully constructed articles revolve around a number of su...

"AARP, the Magazine" is published bi-monthly by AARP and sent to their paid members for free.  It is geared towards people who are 50-years-old and over and deals with issues and concerns that directly affect older Americans.  It's a pretty interesting read, but has an obvious political agenda in mind, as evidenced by the programs it chooses to promote or reject.  T...

"Entertainment Weekly," just as it indicates, is a magazine that comes out every week.  It's main thrust is the entertainment medium and it provides very frank commentary about the latest music albums and concerts, movies, television shows and more.  I usually read a copy of it whenever I can and purchase it sporadically, although I haven't decided yet whether or not...

I have been collecting issues of "Mad Magazine" since I was a child.  I fell in love with this crazy, warped humor publication when I first sneaked a copy from a classmate in elementary school.  It's satire is uproariously funny, edgy and so politically incorrect.  My reading this magazine is probably why I was such a precocious kid and a big reason I gain...

Family Circle" has been around as long as I can remember.  It's not a particularly fancy magazine, when you compare it to other women's magazines, but perhaps it is the simplicity of this publication that attracts readers and subscribers to it.  I don't presently subscribe to "Family Circle", but I do buy it directly from the stand when I see something that ...

Woman's World" is a weekly women's magazine in tabloid form that you can find near the checkout counters of nearly every supermarket in the United States.  Even though it's not a huge publication, in terms of size, it provides more information and enjoyable resources in its few pages than many magazines that are twice as lengthy. In my goal to be a more frugal shopper, I l...

With the price of just about everything rising, my husband and I are constantly seeking out bargains where we can find them.  I admit that we do some very serious penny-pinching in terms of finding less expensive household products when we can, so when we ran out of our usual higher-priced light bulbs, we decided to have a look in the nearest 99 Cents Only Store to see if, by some cha...

I am an unapologetic bargain shopper and when I went on a visit, not long ago, to the Walgreen's drugstore a small distance from where I reside in order to buy some deodorant, I admit that I did look at the price of the available products first.  Walgreen's carries its own brand of  special products that are supposed to be close in quality to the bigger, popular  name bra...