Lay Your Own Extraordinary Hardwood Floor
It's hard to beat the natural beauty, warmth and durability of a hardwood floor. A well-laid floor will last for a century or more and can be rejuvenated by resanding and finishing to look brand new. A real wood floor isn't cheap, but neither is ... [... more]
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Mr. Foreclosure
If you want to know what foreclosure really means, a good place to start is the copper, the wire, and the pipes. A family buys a house in Michigan, Ohio, or Indiana-the Rust Belt center of the foreclosure boom. They miss a payment, then another. ... [... more]
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How To Install Baseboard Molding, Even On Crooked Walls
Every good trim carpenter has a tool apron full of special tricks for cutting and installing baseboards gap free and with tight joints. They need them, and so will you when you trim out that new family room. That's because walls are rarely the ... [... more]
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Reader's Digest Sweepstakes
Just what the doctor ordered -- a healthy dose of extra cash! Select Editions brings you the chance to win $30,000 with just one click! Entry is FREE, and you can make yourself a potential winner every day. Just answer a simple question and enter ... [... more]
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Outrageous! Just Sick of It
By Michael Crowley From Reader's Digest For most of us -- employed by small and large companies -- sick days are a cushion against an unexpected flu and nothing more. If we don't use them, we lose them -- just like vacation days you don't take. ... [... more]
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10 Steps to Smarter Food Shopping
You came, you saw, you shopped. But then you got home from the supermarket and started unloading fatty snack items and deli meats. What went wrong? You fell back into the habit of shopping like an average American rather than a person with a ... [... more]
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How to Get Out of Debt and Get Rich
John and thousands like him meet across America -- in church basements and high school auditoriums -- every week. They talk about blowing the mortgage payment on gourmet restaurant meals, then scrounging to find enough coins for the tollbooth. ... [... more]
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Granite Tile Kitchen Countertops
Granite tiles are as easy to install as ceramic tile, except for the edges. We show you a slick jig that makes it simple to cut strips for the edges and the backsplash. In this story, we'll show you how to install an alternative-a ... [... more]
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Everyone agrees that we need cheaper, better, easier care for everyone. You know it. The guy heading to the White House knows it. Congress knows it. But knowing and doing aren't necessarily neighbors in Washington, D.C. In any case, we don't have ... [... more]
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Outrageous: Hall of Shame
What's more important, fighting terrorists or ensuring that the military elite flies in style? The answer is obvious to most Americans, but not to some fat-cat Air Force officials. In July, the Washington Post reported that the flyboys sought to ... [... more]
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What To Do During the Financial Sector Meltdown
How to Protect Your Money What Investors Should Do Now Your Best Bet: Stash Your Cash Expert Advice from Suze Orman A Look at the Bailout Failure Lessons from the Bailout Failure Why the Bailout Affects You Pledging New Action on the ... [... more]
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Universal Health Care: The Diagnosis
The worst of it, Stephen Gore thought, had passed. There was the kidney cancer, and then there was the operation to remove it, and finally, after a year and a half, it looked like it might actually be over. Not over over, because you never know ... [... more]
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