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Postal Worker Caught Throwing Box Over Fence Makes Sending Packages Even Scarier (VIDEO)

Posted by Jeanne Sager
on Jan 20, 2012 at 10:20 AM

postal carrier throwing clockRemember the incredibly rude FedEx worker caught on video throwing a brand new computer monitor over a gate and taking off? Yeah, you and most of America. But somehow a United States Postal Service mail carrier in North Hollywood must have missed it. Because he just did the same thing -- albeit with a box carrying an antique cuckoo clock -- and he too was caught on video.

Quick! Get this man an Internet connection, stat! Not only did he miss the FedEx debacle, but apparently he isn't up to date on the upcoming postage rate hike (it's this weekend folks) or the post office closings that have folks in small towns across the nation in a tizzy or the threat of the end Saturday delivery? Or did this mail carrier want to give us yet another reason to avoid the post office at all costs? You be the judge:

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Home & Garden

Ford Family Car Recall: 6 Things You Need to Know

Posted by Jeanne Sager
on Jan 11, 2012 at 2:08 PM

ford escapeAny time a company says there is something wrong with a product, it's scary. But the massive Ford recall of nearly half a million minivans and SUVS is absolutely terrifying for parents today. These are the kinds of cars that they drive every day! This is the way they drive their kids to daycare or maneuver the carpool to school!

The cars being called off the road and into service shops run the risk of fire or a loss of power. But before you panic, here's what you have to know:

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Home & Garden

Rent Out Your Driveway & Other Ways to Make a Buck Without Leaving Home

Posted by Lindsay Mannering
on Jan 5, 2012 at 5:07 PM

field of dreamsIn a lukewarm economy, some people have gotten creative when it comes to making a buck. A new website, ParkatMyHouse.com, matches people who need parking spaces with people who own houses with driveways near the desired destination. It's a peer-to-peer operation, like Craigslist, and it sounds like a win-win to me. As a car owner, I'd much rather pay a nice person $20 to park in their uncrowded, drama-free driveway than $20 to park in a lot that will take me 45 minutes to exit. And as someone who grew up in a house with a secret back entrance to a National Park in her backyard, my family could've made a killing if this site had existed back in the '90s.

Point is, there are plenty of ways to pimp out your house for some extra cash. No need to stop with the parking! Let's look beyond the driveway.

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Home & Garden

Tiger Woods' Ex Elin Nordegren Is the One Doing the 'Homewrecking' Now

Posted by Maressa Brown
on Jan 5, 2012 at 2:12 PM

elin nordegren's home in north palm beach, floridaElin Nordegren's home before the wrecking ball hit.I think we can all agree that Tiger Woods' ex-wife Elin Nordegren isn't your everyday divorcee. And that's why I guess we shouldn't be surprised that there's still major fallout from her brutal, public split with the pro-golfer-slash-serial cheater. Elin seems to be taking pent-up aggression out on a house -- specifically, a $12 million six-bedroom mansion on the beach in North Palm Beach, Florida. She only bought it last March, but she's gone and knocked it down with plans to rebuild a TOTALLY DIFFERENT home on the property. TMZ says Nordegren has hired a high-priced architect, and every single worker is required to sign a confidentiality agreement.

Word is she didn't think the home was "modern" enough, but others speculate she's just doing it because she's so loaded, she can. I say there's more to the story than that.

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Home & Garden

Walmart Isn't Open on Christmas But These Places Are!

Posted by Adriana Velez
on Dec 25, 2011 at 8:00 AM

walgreen signHey, we know -- not everyone in the world celebrates Christmas. Does is seem like the whole world shuts down on that holiday? What if you don't feel like spending this Sunday in your pajamas, eating Chinese takeout and scrolling through your Netflix queue? Maybe you'd like to go out and do a little shopping -- while the stores are practically empty! Heaven!

Well, I'll warn you, it's pretty slim pickings. Most of the retail chain stores that stay open for the holiday are drug stores. But hey, you need to stock up on cotton balls sometime, right? Keep reading to find out where you can shop this Christmas.

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Home & Garden

Black Bear Invades Home & Surprises the Cable Guy

Posted by Lindsay Mannering
on Dec 16, 2011 at 1:06 PM

black bearAnimals are breaking into our homes in droves this winter. First there was an adorable baby seal that came in through a cat door and snuggled up for the night on a woman's couch, and now there's news that a black bear was found taking a snooze in the basement of a New Jersey man's home. I'd much rather find a cuddly little seal cub than an adult bear in my house, but you have to work with the cards you're dealt.

The sleepy bear was discovered by the cable guy who was in the home to fix an issue and no one's really sure what's more surprising: That there was a bear in the basement between the hours of 11 and 3 or that the cable guy was actually there between the hours of 11 and 3.

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Home & Garden

5 Can't Fail Tricks to Cut Your Gift List Without Hurting Anyone's Feelings

Posted by Jeanne Sager
on Dec 5, 2011 at 11:45 AM
Penny Pincher’s Holiday Guide

holiday giftsIs there anything that's more depressing than looking at your holiday gift list and wondering: how am I going to pay for all of these? The older we get, the more people it seems clog up that list. Is it any wonder that 40 percent of Americans say they flat out won't be holiday shopping this year because they're terrified of going into debt? What a bummer!

Folks, you don't have to go all or nothing to have a good holiday, I promise. Just doing a little trim of the holiday gift list should do it ... and before you say, "But I don't want to hurt anyone's feelings," that's possible too. Just check out this list of perfectly plausible ways to kick people off your present list:

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Pregnancy

Pregnancy Is the Best Way to Avoid Thanksgiving

Posted by Catherine Donaldson-Evans
on Nov 24, 2011 at 11:00 AM
Thanksgiving Guide

baby girl picI have a dirty little secret. I hate Thanksgiving. I know, I know. I'm a very bad person. It's a wonderful holiday about family and close friends coming together, remembering all we're grateful for. It's about cooking and eating a lovely, traditional meal shared long ago by two different cultural groups, the Pilgrims and the Indians. Or something.

But I'm sorry, I just can't get excited about having the same old food every year on a cold, gray, dark late-November day and over-eating until you feel like you're going to die. Not to mention the fact that you're so tired from ingesting all that tryptophan in the turkey and gorging on a huge meal in the middle of the afternoon that you're ready for bed by 5 p.m.

Yes, if there's one holiday I could definitely do without, it's Thanksgiving. It's really just a celebration of that deadly sin called gluttony, isn't it? But this year I've found a pretty creative way to avoid the whole thing altogether. I'm going to have a baby.

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Home & Garden

Man Who Destroyed Hotel Room Over Toilet Paper Might Just Be a Dad

Posted by Amy Keyishian
on Nov 21, 2011 at 11:00 AM

toilet paper storageA man staying in a low-cost motel in Charlotte, North Carolina, found that his room was out of toilet paper. His rage-filled reaction -- causing $2,000 in damages to both his and a nearby room -- is being characterized as crazy by most news sites reporting it.

Never mind that the guy is living in a no-tell motel reserved for the homeless and those living on the fringes, like the place where the guys kept house on My Name Is Earl. I seriously doubt if the whole place is worth $2,000. But even if it were a Holiday Inn, I can think of a lot of situations in which this is a perfectly normal response.

What could lead a man to such a desperate reaction to a lack of tee pee?

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Home & Garden

Your House Will Be 'Hot' With Sexy New Appliances

Posted by Amy Keyishian
on Nov 15, 2011 at 6:54 PM

Nest Learning ThermostatIt was with great interest that I read that the standard thermostat had been redesigned by a team that took Steve Jobs and Apple as their inspiration. It’s so genius. I mean, it seems that stores like Skymall and Hammacher Schlemmer exist only to convince us that we need things we’d never use, when in fact what we want is new twists on the ubiquitous items we use every single day.
 
The new thermostat, called The Nest ($249 at store.nest.com), is more than just sleek and sexy-looking -- it learns your family’s habits so that it can turn on and off even when you don’t think to do so, which is supposed to save you energy. Which is great and all, but really, it’s kind of amazing that we accepted this ugly ecru-white box as a must-have for as long as we did.
 
Now, I’m hungry for more home utilities that look better than they have to. Here’s what I’ve found:

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