I've owned the same Oreck for more than 20 years and have never had even one problem with it.  It's more dependable than my husband of 30 years.  Good luck to you Oreck - hope you're around for another 20!

Leave it to MSN to point you to something that doesn't exist!  Went to the Birchbox site and looked EVERYWHERE for the From the Garden Kit.  Nowhere to be found...sigh.  Must've been really limited :-(

Tale of Two McDonald's:   #1 - Visited the McD's on Fairfield Ave. in Bridgeport, CT yesterday for lunch (drive thru window).  Go there several times a month.  Have NEVER encountered even one employee who wasn't pleasant, smiling and totally focused on customer service.  The same faces have been there for what seems ...more

This jerk was lucky to have a job at all.  Care to guess how many unemployed people would be happy to be a barista in Seattle?

"a few whiskies"??  Unless this guy's an extreme lightweight, sounds like a few more than a few!

Years ago, a coworker and I put a microcassette recorder up in one of those removable ceiling tiles of another coworker's office while he was out to lunch.  The tape had a 1/2 hour delay with no sound, then we recorded the following:  "Hey buddy, help me!  Help, please!  I'm stuck up here!" ... delay several seconds .....more

I live just 10 miles from Sandy Hook and happened to be sitting in a salon having my hair cut when the shootings happened.  Try to tell me that the dozens of emergency vehicles I saw tearing past the windows over the ensuing hour and a half were 'staged'.  Try to tell me that my husband's friend (who lost his granddaug...more

Move to Connecticut and become a Probate Judge.  Part-time work for more than full-time pay (you get a % of the settled estate along with a paycheck and benefits!).  Even better if your family's law firm handles estate planning and serves as executor for estates in your town.  THEN, they get to dip into the estate for ...more

I am thoroughly disgusted by the "boomer-trashing" by the coddled Gen X, Y & Z ers.  Remember this folks...The so-called Greatest Generation gave birth to all of us Boomers.  The GG's were also the ones who invented the chemical-laden fast food that we Boomers grew up on, the pollution spewing cars we drive, the inadeq...more