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Poll of the Week

by Lori Feldman on July 18, 2010

Originally posted 2009-03-16 09:30:29.

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Melody is one of our St. Louis Builders Home and Garden Show bloggers, and she’ll be at the Show when it opens on Thursday, March 5, to bring you the scoop on the newest home and garden products. She’s a newlywed who’s nesting instinct just kicked in. She calls it “nesting notions” because her mental [...]

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Heat, light, food, and good health-amenities that none of us can do without. Unfortunately, the meteoric rise in cost for all four over the last 10 years shows no sign of slowing anytime soon. But you can fight back. As a homeowner, you can reduce your expenditures on all four by retrofitting your home with [...]

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Starting today, if you’ve got an iPhone, you can banish interior paint color selection anxiety forever! Download the new benColor Capture iPhone App for free from the iPhone App Store. Then use your iPhone camera to take any picture, and the iPhone app shows you the closest matching colors in the Benjamin Moore paint catalog. [...]

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Everyone wants to save pennies wherever they can right now. A good friend, who up until now, I would’ve called very “low tech,” just discovered how to make money on eBay. She’s busily taking pictures and writing descriptions and making a few hundred dollars a month selling things out of her “million dollar garage.” That’s [...]

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The Boy in the Bubble

by Lori Feldman on February 25, 2009

Is it a crystal ball? Or a snow globe? It’s Bubble Nicolas, the mime in the transparent bubble, who will perform at this year’s St. Louis Builders Home and Garden Show. He’ll also perform as The Marionette, which won the Telly Award’s “Best in Children’s Audience Award.” Watch these preview videos of Bubble’s upcoming family-friendly [...]

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Finally! A way to regift that knitted tea cosy, vacuum-powered hair cutter or 10th ugly tie! Now you can unload them on the new UPS website that lets you virtually hand off your unwanted presents to those who can really appreciate them. At the UPS Regifter Gallery, the recipient gets an email with a link [...]

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Struggling with what makes the perfect gift? In a recent poll, 4,348 would-be giftees were asked, “What do you want for the holidays?” Their answers… With less than a 7% difference in the top 2 answers, it looks like “last-minute shopping” has been ever so slightly extended into the eleventh hour with the gift card [...]

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