Congratulations, home owner, you just got the keys to your new place! Now all that’s left is that delightful matter of packing and moving your crap. Sure, you can go the ol’ Garbage Bag and Boxes from the Liquor Store route, or you can realize you don’t live in a frat house any more and need real, sizeable moving containers that won’t be mistaken for trash. Alas, buying new cardboard boxes is surprisingly costly – and while recyclable, it’s hardly a great move for the environment to keep producing and trashing cardboard. So what’s a classy, budget-minded, and eco-aware person in transition to do? We’ve got the answer! [click to continue…]
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At Homefixated, we try not to bad-mouth products and instead focus our attention on items and ideas that you might actually get some use out of. We’ll be doing that in this post but I will also take a bit of a swipe – without naming names – at something I bought that proved to be an epic piece of fail if there ever was one. Hopefully anyone who has to move and slide heavy furniture around (particularly on surfaces like hardwood floors that you don’t want to scratch) will learn a thing or two. [click to continue…]
There is nothing more frustrating than trying to carry something awkward. The pauses and stops you have to make to switch your hands around is annoying – but what’s worse is when people see you doing this and think you’re stopping because you’re a wimp who can’t handle the weight.
The truth is, not all of us have the “wingspan” of an NBA player. Getting our arms around sheets of plywood, drywall and other building materials is what’s challenging – not the weight.
The makers of Gorilla Gripper understood this and developed a cool little device that solves the problem of carrying these relatively light but majorly awkward items. Take a look at the promo video which involves a magic Gorilla Gripper Genie, straight out of a construction worker’s dreams! [click to continue…]
How wrong is it that when I see a product that claims to let you carry hundreds of pounds of weight, I wonder how it’ll stand up to those poor sobs featured on TLC (no, not Jon & Kate Plus 8 – those other people … the ones with excessive … um, girth)? Well, yah, I do.
One hefty-does-it product that’s received a lot of positive reviews is the Big Slider Utility Mover. It basically looks like the crazy carpets that are used for out of control slides down ski slopes. Actually, I think it IS a crazy carpet, just marketed in a clever way. Anyhoo – it’s a plastic sheet with a handle that can be placed or wiggled underneath a heavy object. You can then slide said heavy object around with relative ease. [click to continue…]
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