Are you ready to convert that spare room into something a bit more exciting and useable?
Consider creating a “little” home theater.
With good quality mid-sized HDTVs going for a few hundred dollars, practical tv stands and decent sound systems equally attractive pricing, there’s not much reason not to. Throw in a couple extra-large beanbag chairs and you’ve got a room that will actually be used.
This is practical even if you already have a full-scale home theater with all of the top equipment. There will always be times when someone would prefer to watch something else, or even fire up a videogame while you’re watching that new release.
Save money on your next purchase and skip the extended warranties. They’re a hedge against the cost of repairing everything from LCD TVs to furnaces, but odds are that you’ll never make a claim.
Also, these warranties may exclude your particular problem or contain a depreciation clause, meaning the product’s value goes down as it ages—and hence, the payout shrinks.
When you’re in need of a creative gift for someone special, the search can be tiresome. You can browse the store after store at your local mall or shopping center for hours and find nothing beyond the same-old-been-there-done-that.
While that may be fine in some situations, it’s just not good enough for those who mean the most to you.
To come up with a gift that will be treasured for years, you need to go back to the basics. Think nostalgic. Think old, yet new.
Enter the sock monkey.
We recently ran across this cool little guy online. There’s a certain charm that a sock monkey shares with its owner that makes it quite unlike other gifts. Perhaps it brings back memories from those simpler times?
When we received this particular sock monkey, “Izzy”, and he’s been a conversation starter since he arrived. While his home is supposed to be on the main computer desk, he seems to find his way around from person to person and desk to desk.
This sock monkey has awesome, vibrant colors, which make him hard to ignore. If you plan to get one of the cute little hand crafted monkeys, out best advice is to buy more than one.
This really is the perfect gift for “children” of any age, included those of us who have been around for a few decades – or more.
