Do It Yourself - Grief's Journey

Cars.com is a search engine assisting you with buying, selling, and automobile research such as prices, specs, photos and more, for both new and used cars.

ehowcom. - Automotive provides clear instructions on How To Do just about everything as it relates to your vehicles.

Kelly Blue Book is rated the best automotive information website, according to a nationwide independent study involving 2,000 car shoppers. Check vehicle history reports, compare used car prices and pre-owned certs, JD Power quality ratings, and financing and insurance all in one convenient place.

Cooking and Entertaining

essortment Food and Drink helps you to find great recipes and cooking tips for everything from vegetarian entrees to delicious desserts.

eHow to Cook for One and I hope you're not having cereal again or eating over the sink out of a can. Visit How to Cook for One for some tips to make it easier to do.

about.comCooking Basics offers "how to cook the basics" information.

eHow.com Food & Entertaining Center is the crossroads place for your cooking and entertaining needs. Check out the bare basics of cooking - how to boil water, measuring ingredients (liquid/dry), boiling an egg, broiling meat, the ABC's of cookware, and Oh My Gosh, what's that in the pantry and how long has that microorganism mambo being going on in the fridge?!? There's a section for desserts, main dishes, soups (starters and sides), and helpful hints and guides for entertaining and parties (hosting or being a guest).

The Foody of UK and Ireland is a website for enthusiastic food lovers. The site's aims are simple and the objectives broad. To create a gastronomic resource for everyone who adores food or who just wants to learn more. Like any subject you can't know it all - The Foody certainly doesn't profess to. That is why your help is needed.

Grilling and Outdoor Cooking offers grilling and barbcuing tips. Following a few basic outdoor cooking procedures will ensure that you are safe, your food is prepared correctly, and that you and your family will enjoy some very delicious food.

Hints and Things offers something for everybody - information, advice, hints, tips, interesting articles, recipes, stain removal, car maintenance, general knowledge and much, much more. While on their website, click on a room, either on the large floor plan or side panel, and see what hints and tips that particular room has to offer.

Hormel Foods' Glossary of Kitchen and Food Terms contains an extensive glossary of foods, ingredients, cooking terms, and a variety of cooking advice to assist with your recipes, meal preparation, menu ideas, ingredients, or kitchen utensil purchases. Helpful for the both the novice and those with developed cooking skills.

Hormel Foods' Knowledge Base is quite comprehensive in its offerings. It covers just about everything for which you might need assistance - meat, eggs, pasta, beverages, oils, nutrition, cookware, knives, food storage and shelf life, charts (conversion, substitution, and the like), seasoning with herbs and spices, metabolism and weight management. It's your one stop shop!

Too Broke To Shop and Can't Cook Anyhow reports to be a hilarious cooking guide that not only explains how to cook, but how to shop, what to cook for company, what to take to a potluck, how to hide the veggies so the kids will still eat them, and it does this in an easy way without even using recipes!

Home and Garden

BioControl Network publishes information and marketing alternatives to "conventional" chemical pesticides and fertilizers, by making this information accessible on the World Wide Web. Biocontrol Network covers many lawn care topics such as disease control, crawling and flying insect control, weed control, tools and equipment, and soil care.

ecomHow - Home and Garden offers a variety of home and garden topics, such as landscaping, building and remodeling, and lawn care.

wikiHow - Home and Garden is a collaborative writing project aiming to build the world's largest how-to manual - this is their Home and Garden section.

Lawn Care Articles from Greenview cover a wide variety of lawn maintenance issues such as fertilizing, seeding, watering, pests, thatching and areation, and mowing.

Netscape's Lawn and Gardens Section offers a variety of lawn and garden tips and resources.

Southern Living Magazine offers regional helpful hints and ideas for your lawn and garden.

Household Maintenance, Repair, and Improvement (Home, Appliances, & Equipment)

Angie's List helps you find high quality service companies and health care professionals in more than 300 categories. From plumbers and painters to dentists and dermatologists, reviews come directly from homeowners in your area.

Be Jane was founded by Heidi Baker and Eden Jarrin to help women connect with other women to take on home improvement and repair projects. In 2003, they envisioned and created an online neighborhood where women of all ages and do-it-herself skill levels, could find the inspiration, information, and encouragement to change their homes. It's a place where women can learn through home improvement to gain confidence in their abilities to truly make a difference in the way they live.

DoItYourself.com is a website providing pretty good instructions for around-the-house-repairs.

HandyHeroes.com is a national network of service providers made up of community heroes - firefighters, police, military personnel, paramedics and EMS. Through HandyHeroes.com, consumers have free, one-step access to a network of "moonlighting" heroes who provide a variety of services on their off time. Click on the "Help" button for a listing of "needs" categories.

HomeHandyGuy, Inc., located in Edmonton, Alberta, HomeHandyGuy Inc. welcomes your inquiry for both large and small repairs in your home. When he starts a job, he finishes it before going on to the next. If you want home repairs done right, ask for the HomeHandyGuy.

HomeTime.com is the official website of the PBS television show and strives to help real people with real projects.

Mrs. FIXIT offers more than easy home repair advice. You'll find easy and practical solutions to your everyday household projects. From cleaning tips to gardening tips to household pests, Mrs. FIXIT has the answer for you! Do it yourself tips and helpful household hints on everything plus the kitchen ink. And that's not all ... Mrs. FIXIT updates her latest household hints and home repair tips and provides a complete online library of past FIXIT tips for your convenience. The category Quick Find button will take you right to the do it yourself solution you need. Can't find an answer to your question there? Check Mrs. FIXIT's Q&A Archives to see if there's an answer to your question in the archives. "It's just that simple!"

The DIY Network is a website providing instructions for simple around-the-house repairs. This web site is tied to a TV series.

This Old House® is the official website for the popular television program. Features of the site include a Homeowners' Know-How section, a discussion forum, and a calculate materials page.

Laundry, Sewing, and Housekeeping

Cleaning - Household Cleaning offers basic household cleaning tips and FAQs about cleaning and disinfecting.

Cleaning -Dishwashers offers information for understanding automatic dishwashers and how to get to much coveted glistening glasses.

Laundry Assistance lists laundering instructions for common fabric care symbols by topic - washing,
bleaching, drying, ironing, and drycleaning.

Laundry - How To Iron A Shirt offers detailed and helpful instruction to the novice for ironing a shirt. I doubt that most of us have time to use the "plastic" bag technique for getting the shirt damp for ironing - I'd recommend using a water spray bottle and spray the sections as you go. Most irons have spray settings, but I usually use a spray bottle and save the water in the iron for the steam setting - but that's just me.

Laundry - So You Wanna Learn To Do Laundry offers step by step laundry instructions that are simple and well presented -- so much so, they believe junior and juniorette who're off at college, will have whites that will be the envy of his/her dorm mates!

Laundry - Sorting It Out offers "wash day" tips for beginners to pros.

Miscellaneous -How To Tie a Bow Tie gives you instruction on how to do just that...tie a bow tie.

Miscellaneous - How To Tie a Neck Tie gives you instruction on how to do just that...tie a neck tie. Hugs for all you moms who have this special moment with your sons...it was something I too had to learn. If you want to get fancy, learn how to tie a Royal Crown Knot.

Sewing - How to Sew a Button offers basic instruction for button sewing and thread selection.

Sewing - Let the Sewing Lessons Begin offers the basics in sewing, a sewing term definitions guide, and information about sewing notions.

Swimming Pools and Ornamental Ponds

about.com Swimming Pool and Spas offers maintenance advice and more.

Discount Spa Covers offers covers for your spa or hot tub. Their partner links page offers a wealth of resources for pool and spa maintenance as well as supples.

ecomHow to Maintain a Swimming Pool suggests that maintaining your pool is easiest when your chemical treatment program and your filtration system work together. Here are the basics. Find our more by visiting their website.

The Fun Place provides instruction and advice on pool opening, maintenance, and closing.

Pond Solutions.com helps those new to ponds. Check out their online course for information on building a pond and how to properly take care of it. They also have 100s of pond photos from their customer's ponds and 100s of answers to frequently asked pond questions! They cover all sorts of questions like how to reduce algae, how to eradicate pond weeds, questions about water chemistry, fish stocking information and so much more. Don't forget to check out their comprehensive FAQ section.

Pool Wizard addresses questions about pool water chemistry and swimming pool problems. Step by step guides take you through all aspects of pool water testing, balancing the water chemistry, and general swimming pool maintenance. To make life easier, there are convenient water calculators to help you work out how much of each chemical you need. You can also work out the volume of your swimming pool or make conversions between gallons and litres.

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Created on 09/14/2005 12:34 PM by John
Updated on 10/26/2008 10:55 AM by Branch