The first item in this week’s round-up is a link to Unclutterer’s post on fire extinguishers. I’d like to add my own public service announcement about smoke detectors.
Get one (or many).
Install it (or them).
Check them regularly.
There should be at least one smoke detector and fire extinguisher on each level of your house, or, if you have a one-floor abode, on each end of your house. Counterintuitively, the smoke detector shouldn’t be too close to the kitchen, and the fire extinguisher should be far enough away from the stove that if there is a fire, you can still get at the extinguisher.
You should check your smoke detectors and fire extinguishers monthly, but if you don’t, now would be a good time to do that.
Meanwhile, here are some of my favorite reads for the week:
- Unitasker Wednesday: The fire extinguisher | Unclutterer
- Slow-Cooker Lemon Poppy-Seed Cake | Real Simple Recipes
- Cucumbers are cooler than you think « One Ordinary Day
- Black & White Printable Wedding Invitation Kit – Bike (Free, downloadable wedding invitation kit)
- Stretching Your Hair Color @ The Dollar Stretcher
- A Journey to a Simple Happy Life – A peace offering
- No-prep pasta: Grab ingredients from the grocery salad bar | Parent Hacks
- Making crackers, eating through the freezer, and generally being odd @ Saver Queen
- Make Your Own Girl Scout Cookies : Our versions of Samoas, Tagalongs, and Thin Mints – CHOW
- Email Answer: Money Management? | Young House Love
As always, you can check out the Good Reads page or my Tumblr site Almost Frugal Finds for all my links, as well as following me on Twitter for the Frugal Tips of the Day.
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Is it just me or are smoke detectors relatively non-existent here in France. I notice often when I cook and send off a bunch of smoke that would normally send the place beeping back in the US!
.-= Simple in France´s last blog ..Pinching Pennies, Indulging in Luxuries =-.
They're a lot more common now- when I first moved here 10 years ago, I brought some with me because the ones that you could buy in the US for $10 cost more than €50 here. Now however, you can buy them at any hardware store for about €10.
I bought mine at Ikea- they have good prices on smoke detectors and fire extinguishers especially if you're a member.