HowTos

How To Pick A Good Cheap Mattress

If you are in the market for a new mattress then you will find that the number of options can make the task a bit difficult. In this how to we will cover the steps you will take to decide which mattress is best for you and how much you can save by choosing different options.

I personally just went through this process twice and I picked two different types of mattresses for different reasons. …

How To Buy a Used Riding Mower

If you are in the market for a Riding Mower you might be thinking about purchasing a used one to save a few hundred dollars. So, in this how to we will look at the benefits and drawbacks of a used riding mower and what you should look for when buying a used one.

Before you jump right in and think you can deal with repairing a used riding mower you really need to understand …

How To Overcome TV Signal Loss When You Need To Add a Splitter

Whether you are obtaining TV Signal from an Antenna, Dish or Cable TV connection its very likely that you will want to split that signal to feed more than one TV. The problem with Splitting the TV Signal to attach another Television is that each split will degrade the signal. This can end up being so bad that a very strong signal at your antenna won’t even sync with your TV Tuner.

When considering your …

How To Wire Your Home For A TV Antenna

Recently I was talking to a guy that is cutting the cord and he wants to install an antenna and use the existing Coax in his home that has been patched together by a few different Cable and Dish Companies.

In his explanation there are four rooms in his home that he wants to hook to his TV Antenna. There are a Series of Splitters that have been installed along the lines to add additional …

How to Share Your Cell Phone Internet Connection With Your Computer

The way people access the internet is changing and reports show that more people are using their cell phone as their primary method of accessing the net. But what if you need to do some work online and pecking at your cell just isn’t going to cut it?

If you have a larger device such as a Laptop, Tablet or even your Desktop you can get internet access off of your mobile plan.

Not every provider …

How To Clean Your Windows Real Well on The Cheap

One of the last jobs we usually get to in the house is cleaning the windows but the chore doesn’t mean that you have to buy special or expensive cleaners to get it done right.

If you have read some of our previous posts we have described how to formulate some of the household products that you use every day at pennies on the dollar. Now sometimes there is good reason to buy store brand …

How To Pick The Right LED Light Bulbs For Your Home

There are many reasons that you might want to upgrade your home’s lighting and with the variety of different options we wanted to take a look at the different types of LED Light Bulbs that are now starting to come down in price.

The cost of incandescent bulbs had been attractive for many years and although there was a transition to compact fluorescent bulbs this came with a price. Although fluorescent bulbs used about 70% …

How To Convert TV and Movies to Reduce File Size but still keep Good Quality

Whether you are saving your own content, Ripping DVDs, Bluerays or like I do Recording TV Shows and Broadcast Movies you will want to save them for as long as possible. One of the problems you will have is the large file size of the Videos and how do you store them all.

Storage is another topic but for best results you want to build or buy a NAS Network Accessible Storage System. It should …

How To Use Your Broadband Internet for Digital Phone Service

Things are expensive today and saving money just makes good sense. If you have Broadband Internet at your home through a Cable TV or Phone Company Provider there are some ways that you can use that connection to reduce your overall monthly bills.

In other how tos we will talk about using your broadband for TV Service but today we are going to look at the different methods to use it for Phone service.

Home Phone …

Comcast Announces 2 Gigabit Service but the cost is INSANE

If you are a power internet user and love to stream HD TV to all of the TVs in your house at the same time you are downloading huge amounts of software then a Two Gigabit connection might be just what you need.

First lets put this in perspective… Comcast’s lowest priced plan of 3mbit down costs you $30 a month if you buy a mid level TV package or $40 a month if you …