Did you know most house fires happen in January? Did you know that my family lost our home 2007? We were lucky that our family was unharmed, but we lost everything we owned. I've always wanted to put together a post of all the things I learned from the experience that can help you prepare yourself in the event something horrible should happen with these 7 Fire Safety Tips. Many of these things we … [Read more...]
SentrySafe HD4100 File Fire Safe and $25 Walmart Gift Card! Review & Giveaway!
You know I'm all about protecting what is important to you in case of damage but how about keeping together all your important tax documents in one place nice and organized. I try often to be an organized person and often fail. When I was given the challenge of taking a filing safe and organizing all our important tax documents I gladly accepted. SentrySafe wants to encourage us all to get … [Read more...]
Energizer’s Change Your Clock – Change Your Battery® Program – Giveaway!
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I have to be honest that I wasn't big on fire safety until I had to watch my own home burn down. Knowing I was the last one to leave was a horrible guilt for me. I went through every single shoulda, woulda, coulda in my head. Of course it was no one's fault but one thing I learned was about our detectors. See, at the time we only used electrical ones. I thought those were the best. I mean, come … [Read more...]
In A Desparate Time of Need…
I have recently been told the story of Amanda Buckland. If you have not heard about her story grab some tissues; if you have then you know her heartache.Amanda recently lost her home to a fire. She sadly also lost her husband, 4 year old son, and 8 month daughter as well. Only Amanda and her 12 year old step daughter survived thanks to the help of neighbors that helped them from the burning home.I … [Read more...]
The day my house burnt down….
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I wasn't going to post about this today. I was going to move on and say it was no longer a date I was going to remember but I think at only 2 years I can't yet forget about it. January 30, 2007 I came home from work earlier and although I thought it was odd that my chimney was whipping smoke and there was smoke coming out of the eaves of the attic...somehow my first guess wasn't that the inside of … [Read more...]
