Our oldest son, Brian needed a few clothes. We went to Kohl's to pick up a few things for the holidays and Brian started looking at jackets.He really liked the "Dickies" brand, Eagle Hoodie. Brian has always been a "hoodie" kind of guy, so I wasn't surprised. He wore it to school all last week, then it went to the laundry last weekend. Not quite sure what happened to...

Hmm... How do I say this tactfully? Big screen TVs are a touchy subject, today. There are so many of them on the market.I have a few friends, that own "rear projection" TVs. They always tell me, they love them. In my heart, of hearts, I believe every one of these guys would have bought a HDTV, that was not a rear projection model; if they could have gone back in time and did it again....

Where would the winter season be, without plaid shirts? Years ago, plaid shirts were a defining statement among men, who cut down trees for a living. These days, everyone wears plaid shirts and jackets because they are a seasonal statement.My oldest boy, Brian loves his plaid shirts. If I ever have any issues with his choices, Brian seems to have an expensive taste in his plaids. So, I made him...

Matthew needed a new pair of shoes for school. It seems as if we just got him a pair this year. We did! They were trash, now.Both of my sons are hard on their clothes, especially on their shoes. Matt's shoes, we bought him last winter, were split at a couple of seams and getting worse. So I took him over to "Payless".I was more than familiar with Payless Shoes. You get what you pa...

I am an avid blue jean person. I wear blue jeans ninety five percent of my waking life. I found a brand a blue jeans by, "Urban Pipeline" at Kohl's Department store, a while ago. This is my number one brand I purchase now. The product is good, maybe not as great, as some of the higher priced brands that glut the market, but the price of the jeans, is more than worth the difference...

It's not easy having  carpeting through most of the house with three pets, two kids and myself tracking in everything from outside. Most of the carpeting is about a year old and it is a light cream. I have just recently been trained by my oldest son, to take off my shoes at the door. Now if he could just get our pets to wash their paws at the door, we would not have been in trouble wit...

It's not easy having a carpeting through most of the house with three pets, two kids and myself tracking in everything from outside. Most of the carpeting is about a year old and it is a light cream. I have just recently been trained by my oldest son, to take off my shoes at the door. Now if he could just get our pets to wash their paws at the door, we would not have been in trouble with my...

I don't know about you, but I get awful tired of the same old, same old pizza. You know, that place you call up and they bring it to you, always tasting like the box it came in. I used to make my own pizza from scratch, not that long ago. Now I do it again, but it tastes better and costs less, than what I used to stick in the oven.Cuisninart's, Pizza Oven, takes me back to when my taste...

We had another, high end coffee maker we had purchased only 3 years before. It gave us coffee in only a couple of minutes, because of it's reserved water tank, that was always hot and ready to go. It had given out on us on a Tuesday. By Thursday night, I was shopping for a new Coffee maker. My wife and I were ready to kill each other for those two mornings, we didn't have our morning cu...

I am an electronic toy freak. I love it having kids I can buy things for, that I get to play with.My youngest son's boom box wasn't reading the CDs anymore. He really wanted this Sony MP3 CD Boom Box, he found online. His mother and myself were not wild about the price tag on it. After some begging and pleading, we cracked a deal with my son. He would pay half.It shipped and arrived at ...

I am not a big fan of Lowe's, or The Home Depot. As it so often happens, their specialists are either not there, when you need a question answered, or they might be making it up, on the spot. With that said and done, I shop these home improvement stores, because the prices are generally cheaper than going to a hardware store, for the larger ticket items.A few months ago, I purchased the De ...

I ordered a drill not too long ago, then realized I needed a few accessories to go with it, so I ordered the DeWalt 37 piece, drill accessory set, to dress up my new drill.There were cheaper sets, but I had already had experience with cheaper drill bits and accessories before. This time, I wanted to be more professional about it. Beside the fact, my dad was getting a little rough around the edg...

Winter is coming on. I usually gravitate toward wearing a lot of layers in the colder months. Give me a bunch a loose fitting tee shirts, a flannel button down, maybe a cloth jacket, then I am ready to go out and scrap the windshield and start the car.Not this year. Jan picked up two long-sleeve, thermal mock-turtleneck pullovers for me. Now I am stylin! They are built to maintain my body heat,...

Long underwear, who woulda thought. Now, my wife might have gone too far. The last time I wore long underwear was in my past life, trying to get through some mountain pass, with the Donner group one winter.I am beginning to think someone is trying to domestic me. I am beginning to feel my indignation rise from within. I am ready to....Ya know, this long underwear feel kind of nice.Mossimo, Long...

As soon as I saw the TV ad for this, I knew I would be getting it. It's the Apple 8GB, iPod Nano Video. The screen display is a lot brighter than Apple's last generation. I had heard about this new piece of heaven, sometime last summer, from Alex, another Mac freak, friend of mine. He sent me an email link, to check out it out. I am glad I saw what Mac was up to, with this newer generat...

I own more than one pair of shoes. A couple of pair, I use for painting and other filthy work I might do. Another pair, are the shoes I hang out in. Another pair, I where when going out to some good restaurant, like Denny's (kidding about Denny's). And yet another pair, this newer pair I bought, I wear to when I need "happy feet". The newer pair I bought at Meijer, is for my f...

Tommy Bahama must have a corner on the market, where suave and debonair are mentioned, in the same sentence. Tommy's line of mens' fashion wear is very high-end, very sophisticated, very pricey too. You know the old saying, "You get what you pay for."I have over four pieces of clothing, with the "Tommy Bahama" label sewed inside the clothing. You might think I copied...

It never fails, that every single winter, I will turn on the TV for the local news and hear some horror story, about a whole family dying from their furnace pot leaking.Furnaces are not meant to last forever. It is rare that we give our furnaces a second thought. If it isn't working, we get cold, then call a repairperson out to the house, so we don't have to huddle around the kitchen ov...

Everyone who has a kitchen have cutting knives, usually an assortment of them. My odd assortment of cutlery takes a beating, because I am the top chef of my domain.If there is one thing I will not tolerate out of my culinary tools, it would be the wear and tear my knives won't stand up to. A dull edge, brings out the "Ramsey" in me. True, I have a knife sharpener, but it always li...

The family went to Somerset Mall one evening to wander; but that's a poor excuse to shop, isn't it?As we passed Bachrach, menswear, I went back and entered. They were having a sale on mens' sportshirts. I did need a couple of newer shirts I could wear, besides all of my T shirts. My other dress shirts were few, and lacking respect.After finding my right size and looking them over su...