Automotive DIY Projects plus Home & Money Saving Ideas
Chevy SSR: Radiator Expansion Tank Replacement Our Project SSR has had a few bouts with overheating issues. First, we had the heater core crossover pipe fail (see our cheap fix here!), and now we had our expansion tank fail. Needless to say, it’s a bit frustrating but, under-hood temperatures are a problem given the…
How to Save 20% and More on your Appliances! Recently we had a couple of posts showing how easy it is to pickup Lowes Coupons and Gift Cards from eBay. With most major holidays, stores take advantage and provide discounts and rebates on major appliances. While seeing an appliance discounted 20%, 25% or even 40% is…
Chevy SSR: Power Steering Hose Replacement Our SSR had developed a leak from the Power Steering system. It’s never fun to have a car leaking on your driveway, much less if it’s leaking on your garage floor. Follow along as we hunt down the Power Steering leak and address it with a very simple fix.…
– Overview – Special or Desirable Options – Advantages & Disadvantages – What to look out for – Vehicles Available for Sale Overview: Known as the 986, the first generation Porsche Boxster had a production run from 1996 to 2004. Since the car’s introduction, it has had a unique place within the Porsche hierarchy. On one hand, the car…
Getting Lowe’s Gift Cards on eBay! A couple of weeks ago we posted about purchasing Lowe’s coupons on eBay, and while that is an excellent first step, there is so much more you can do to save money on your DIY projects. Continuing the theme with Lowe’s (which I’m a big fan of) let’s…
Installing a Garden Hose Reel In our last post, we planted our new Lychee tree on the front lawn. So, now that she’s in, we’ll need to water her. In keeping with our home’s complete lack of normal things, the front faucet did not have anything to hang a hose. So to make life…
Planting a Lychee Tree So if you read our prior post on cutting down the vast majority of trees that were in our backyard you’d see that we have a ton of space now. While it took several months to level out the backyard and the good part of a year to get grass…
Getting Lowe’s Coupons on eBay! Something we’ve been meaning to do more and more here on the site is provide people with budgeting and money saving tips. Some of you will be on this site because you want to naturally do things yourself, but most of us do things ourselves to save a few extra bucks.…
Renting a Tree Stump Grinder So if you read our prior post on cutting down the vast majority of trees that were in our backyard you’d realize we have around 100 stumps to take care of. Every time I’ve cut a tree in the past the stump is always an issue. Rarely can you…
Cutting Trees & Cleaning the Backyard Before I get started on this DIY I want to state that I love trees. My family and I are very nature oriented. We love taking the kids to the park, we love having our own fruit trees and we love having our herb garden. That being said, when…
Chevy SSR: Front Wheel Bearing Replacement My Chevy SSR has had a rather hard life. We had planned to do a full refresh but it’s been difficult to get a consistent rhythm going. Nevertheless, a lot has been done over the past 18-months and we will start chronicling the transformation. To start things off we installed…