My house is a ranch style home with a full basement. To get from the first floor to the basement there is a set of wooden steps under which a handy previous owner built a closet. It was a perfect place to keep the cardboard boxes I might need someday.   And, as the saying goes, [...]

In the last 12 months I have made some major purchases.  I bought a new snow blower, a much newer car, a new couch, finished the fence around my back yard and a reader board sign for the farm.  All of them were necessary purchases, expect for the couch.  The couch was just as too [...]