Archive for September, 2011

RTS Home Accents Rain Barrel Review

September 10th, 2011

Rain barrels or rainwater harvesters are cisterns that are used to collect rainwater. These cisterns have been used for 3,000 years. They can usually hold between 50 to 80 gallons of rainwater.

Rain barrels have been a huge help for those people who have been using them, not to mention that it helps the environment as well. Nearly 40 percent of the water consumption in households accounts for gardening and irrigation. By using rain barrels, residents can save up to 1,300 gallons during the wet or growing season.
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Keep Warm in Winter

September 9th, 2011

Natural medicine, vitamins and nutrition are just one of the factors to keep a flu or a cold away. Another way is the old housewife’s order to keep warm and it has proved its merit over the centuries.

Keeping warm with clothes is one option, the other is to warm your house. Just how cold and draughty a home can be, we all have felt when we needed warmth the most: the day of an oncoming flu or cold. How can we “avoid that our house catches a cold” clocking up not medical bills but electricity bills? Over the last decades, the natural recipe to feel snug and warm during winter in our own four walls has somewhat been forgotten.
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