{"id":62,"date":"2011-06-22T08:10:51","date_gmt":"2011-06-22T12:10:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dansdigitaldive.com\/web\/?p=62"},"modified":"2013-11-07T08:51:00","modified_gmt":"2013-11-07T13:51:00","slug":"2008jan18-my-favorite-home-improvement-links","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dansdigitaldive.com\/web\/archives\/62","title":{"rendered":"2008JAN18 &#8211; My favorite home improvement links"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A listing of my favorite Home Improvement \/ Increasing home efficiency \/ Family Financing links:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A link with common sense approach to computer preventive maintenance; for those anal retentive folks (of which I am one) although dated is: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcguide.com\/care\/pm.htm\">PCGuide<\/a>, a   good reference site.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.builditsolar.com\/index.htm\">Build it Solar<\/a>&#8211; A great link for the Do-it-Your selfer. Their focus is on energy efficiency and off-grid living. Lots of good information every homeowner can use.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stretcher.com\">The Dollar Stretcher<\/a> &#8211; This is a great website for saving money and generating thoughts on how to improve your finances. They have some newsletters that have good info too.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fivecentnickel.com\/\">Five Cent Nickel<\/a> &#8211; A blog I stumbled across on 7\/28\/09, it seems to provide some pretty cool suggestions and alot of common sense. The best thing is it is FREE; my favorite four letter word.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.clarkhoward.com\">Clark Howard<\/a> &#8211; Howard empowers his Clark Howard listeners &amp; viewers to make smart financial decisions in all aspects of life with the promise to help them &#8220;save more, spend less and avoid getting ripped off!&#8221; He also has a good show on CNN: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/CNN\/Programs\/clark.howard\/\">Clark on CNN<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.davesays.org\/index.cfm\">Dave Says Column<\/a> &#8211; Dave Ramsey&#8217;s blog about his &#8220;Financial Peace&#8221; program; I listen to him on our local radio station; and like his straight forward advice &#8211; maybe someday I&#8217;ll call him and get his opinions on my debt structure (if I can handle it). The thing I don&#8217;t like about him &#8212; he is always pushing his product &#8220;Financial Peace&#8221;, that kinda of bothers me a bit.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A listing of my favorite Home Improvement \/ Increasing home efficiency \/ Family Financing links: A link with common sense approach to computer preventive maintenance; for those anal retentive folks (of which I am one) although dated is: PCGuide, a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/dansdigitaldive.com\/web\/archives\/62\">Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"kt_blocks_editor_width":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-household"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2790,"url":"https:\/\/dansdigitaldive.com\/web\/archives\/2790","url_meta":{"origin":62,"position":0},"title":"Reality show government","author":"DR D","date":"October 7, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"This morning, my cat and I were watching Fareed Zakaria's show, GPS (Global Public Square) on CNN; yes - I still watch CNN, and really try and watch Mr. Zakaria's show whenever possible.\u00a0 Today he had on two former Secretaries of State, General Colin Powell and Madeline Albright.\u00a0 It was\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Life&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Life","link":"https:\/\/dansdigitaldive.com\/web\/archives\/category\/life"},"img":{"alt_text":"We The People....Not we the Lobbyists","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/dansdigitaldive.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/WeThePeople-300x208.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":1022,"url":"https:\/\/dansdigitaldive.com\/web\/archives\/1022","url_meta":{"origin":62,"position":1},"title":"An experiment in Timesharing: 2013 Timeshare Journey &#8211; Trailer and other various equipment","author":"DR D","date":"May 31, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Good afternoon, today were discussing how the timesharing idea was progressing. 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