syllylou77

First I have a 20 yr. old tv w/ DVD/ VCR attached along with a satellite dish. Second I have a 15 yr. old desktop with an LCD Monitor and 3 in 1 printer attached. Third my son has a PS3, satellite dish and new 27 inch TV. I'm trying to figure out where I can save money the most. I can't afford another power switch that expensive.

I have a Christmas decoration that has a cotton covering on the bottom. It doesn't come off & it's covered in attic type of dirt. Is there anyway to clean it w/o destorying it? It's battery operated so I have to be really careful with any liquids.

A week ago my freezer went all the way up to 50 degrees. I cleared out all the ice & lowered the temp to 3. After a few hrs. it started freezing again & the fridge went back down to 40. It worked great for several days. Now it's doing it again. My freezer is at 45 & the fridge is at 55. I can hear the motor. The seal is fine. I'm out of ideas as to what to try. It's a metallic with black trim freezer/refrigerator whirlpool if that helps any.

The meter man said if my rate on the meter reads 0.08 then that's the rate per gallon that I have a leak. I've tried adding, subtracting, etc to figure out how many gallons I'm losing a day while I'm trying to find the leak. This kind of math I've always been crappy with. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

When we turned off the faucet in kitchen the leak stopped. We took everything out from under the sink & turned those off & it stopped flashing. But there isn't any water under the sink. I cleaned the o-rings & applied silicone grease but it still registers a leak. Does this mean the leak is under the house?

in locations where municipal street lighting is not applicable.

To me it appears to say street lights where individual customers can pay and have it is only available where there aren t any city lights.

Am I reading this wrong? If so what is it saying? Thanks everybody.

I have a shed with a patio on the side & halfway down the back. i want to put a permanent cover on it like a roof. The side isn't a big deal. It's a simple 11ft X 12. But there is a section that goes behind the shed that is technically about 4 ft. wide X 5 ft. long but in reality it goes all the way up to where the other ends. Technically I guess we could make the one for the side going north & south. Then make the small L section for the area & for the part not attached to the shed roof going east/west, attach it instead to the last one going north & south. But that sounds like an awful lot of extra work & not too stable. Everything I've found online has been for an L shaped house instead of patio. Since we use the small section in back to store stuff we'd like to cover that too so we could store more seasonal stuff back there. The sun doesn't have to shine through the roof because we want to use it for storage more than enjoyment. So we don't want rain & snow inside. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.

The carpet by our washer is soaked. But it's dry under the washer and up to a couple of inches away. The HVAC register is over top part of the soaked carpet but the register is dry. So we went to the basement & there are no pipes anywhere close & no leaks. Yet the carpet is soaked & won't dry out. The only idea left is tear up the carpet & floor boards which will cause even more problems because of the house's age. The idiots that did the HVAC didn't connect the hose to the drain pit so it soaked the drywall in the dining room which fell & soaked the floor but that's like 25-30 ft. away from there and we fixed that. So I'm out of ideas & pretty much out of money too as we're on a fixed income. So any ideas would be greatly appreciated.

I filed my taxes using a W2 form. The federal was accepted w/o any problem. But the state return said

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I checked the W2 form I had entered and realized I had put a comma instead of a period so I corrected that and started everything from the beginning to make sure there weren't any other accidents and everything was fine so I resubmitted it as told to but it still said the above. Anyone have any ideas of what else I might have done wrong. I used the 1040Now Online site to prepare it.

A neighbor fogged their rental house w/o warning & now all the neighbors are paying with an infestation. Nothing seems to work. We've tried organic cures & products, poisons & home remedies. Even exterminators can't get all of them longer than a few days. We've sealed every tiny hole & still are fighting. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated. I've never dealt with this kind of infestation in my life. No matter how much is sprayed & cleaned they keep coming back. Yes, we covered the outside as well.

Thanks to a neighbor I have bugs. I've been told the sprays in hardware stores are worthless. At the Milling Store They have a solution of Bifenthrin that's 7.9%. You're supposed to use one ounce per gallon. Bifenthrin is the same stuff used In Ortho Home Defense Max at 0.5% ready to use. So I'm trying to figure out if when the 4 oz. at 7.9% is diluted which one is stronger & by how much? These bugs are giving me the heebie jeebies & I don't want to play games with them or my money for that matter. Any help would be greatly appreciated. God bless.

This sounds insane but I swear it's true. A lady I met from WV said that her father is buried in Spring Hill Cemetery in Charleston, WV. Supposedly it's a military graveyard or at least that's how he was buried. The VA says he's not eligible for a headstone because he was honorably/dishonorably discharged on his DD 214. The dishonorable part was for fighting. He was a Korean War vet & died in 1968 and her mom has been arguing with them ever since. I don't know how he can be both h & d discharged since they contradict each other but she swears that's what it says on his DD 214. Anyone have any ideas of what's going on here & could give me some direction to help her & her mom before she dies? Any help especially with references or links would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

First we changed the starter but the car still wouldn't hold a charge. So we took it to the auto store to be tested & it said the battery was good but the alternator was bad. So we bought one & put it on. The car charger started the car but the "check engine" wouldn't go off. So I drove it around the block & suddenly it was hard to turn. Then the battery light started flashing. I made it home, turned the car off and when I tried to turn it back on it just clicked with the check engine light on. It's a '95 Geo Prizm 1.6 litres if that helps.

i dont remember much about it but i know it oldies song because i only listen to oldies music now a days and all i remember about the song was the park i was asking and i think i heard Guantanamo bay said in the song as well

From time to time my heater will suddenly start throwing out cold air & the thermostat will go down 5-10 degrees lower than it's set at for several hrs. Then for no reason it will start giving out warm air again like it's supposed to. Sometimes it will even go 1-2 degrees higher than originally set before clicking off. It's done it a couple of times a month all this winter. Besides being cold I presume it's wasting energy & money. This is the second year it's done it. But it doesn't do it in the summer with the cooling. I use electric for cooling & gas for heating. Anyone have any ideas? My nephew has worked with heating/cooling units at work but never heard of anything like this.

The horn to my car doesn't work & I'm wanting to add a horn I can use a push button with.The guy working on it took the 2 lines & connected one to the ground & the other positive on the battery directly to make sure the horn was working.So we know it works as it keeps blowing until disconnected. But when he takes the one wire & connects it to the push button & the other & connects it to the relay & of course both to the battery terminals nothing happens. Anyone have any ideas I'd sure appreciate it. When the weather gets pretty around here every stupid driver in the tri-state comes out & plays "I rule the road" so I really can't wait much longer to install it. Thanks bunches.

My son just got a Panasonic Palmcorder MultiCam Camcorder PV-L652. The driver is on a floppy disc. My computer doesn't take a floppy disc. So I went to www2.panasonic.com and downloaded what I thought was the driver (photoshot5_01). I downloaded winzip to unzip it but winzip doesn't recognize the driver as being a zipped file. But I can't get it opened. The camcorder is connected to the pc but my pc doesn't reconize it as being connected. My OS is Windows Vista & IE8 for my browser..Does anyone know what I'm doing wrong & how to fix it? I'd really like to put this video on line. Thanks in advance.