ByJill PertlerIt is an orange time of year. The leaves go from greens to goldens before falling to the ground like discarded candy bar wrappers on Halloween. Outside the leaves litter the earth; inside Reese's and Kit Kat wrappers crinkle underfoot. It is a separate but equally orange-ish ...

ByLauraSnyder"This is the Snyder residence. We cannot come to the phone right now. At the sound of the tone, please leave a message." BEEP! "Hi Mom. I just called to say hi. Talk to ya later!" My son called just to say hi? I'm not buying it. He's in some kind of trouble. I'd better call back. ...

BySenatorCharlesGrassleyQ. What is National Adoption Day?A. National Adoption Day is a day when many adoptions of children in foster care are finalized, and families who adopt are celebrated. Over 30,000 children have been officially adopted on National Adoption Day since the first one was held ...

Want to live better on the money you already make? Visit to find hundreds of articles to help you stretch your day and your dollar! Copyright 2010 Dollar Stretcher, Inc.Leftover Candy?I use leftover Halloween candy for decorating gingerbread houses for the holidays.Sandy H.Unruly Kids?I have ...

ByJill PertlerWe need a new electric frying pan. My husband has noted this fact on more than one occasion. He is right. Our frying pan decades old has seen better days. Its paint is chipped and the Teflon burned in places. A new one would be neither excessive nor unwarranted. My husband ...

ByLauraSnyder Twitter is the Levi Johnston of social media. You just wish it would go away.Facebook, however, though it's just as annoying, isn't going anywhere. Nearly everyone in a certain age group uses Facebook to one degree or another. There are "rules" to using Facebook, however. ...

BySenatorCharlesGrassleyQ. Why did you co-sponsor a Senate resolution designating October 30, 2010 as a day of remembrance for nuclear weapons program workers?A. Since World War II, hundreds of thousands of Americans, many who assembled and disassembled nuclear weapons, have helped develop a ...

Want to live better on the money you already make? Visit to find hundreds of articles to help you stretch your day and your dollar! Copyright 2010 Dollar Stretcher, Inc.Shining CopperUse ketchup to shine your cookware's copper bottoms. Just rub some ketchup on the bottom of the pot and wait a ...

ByJill PertlerI lost a friend yesterday. It wasn't due to accident, injury, death or any other natural causes. I suffered a digital loss. Not of the finger or toe variety, but of the computer kind. Facebook-related. Yesterday, I visited the social networking site and noted I had 151 friends. ...

ByLauraSnyder Digital cameras have given us the ability to take many more pictures than we could have with our 35 mm point-and-shoot; but is this a good thing?With my old camera, the potential pictures I wanted to take would be carefully selected before I even pressed the shutter button. ...