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Home Week in Review: August 27 – September 2

I hope you had a great week and I hope you are now enjoying your Labor Day weekend. Labor Day was designed to celebrate the individual, the worker, the laborer, the people who work hard to make the American dream a reality. So, enjoy yourself. You deserve long weekend. This week, in the Home Blog, we were inside and outside the home. We talked about phones, plants, safety, cleaning, air purification, and outdoor improvements, with articles on things like the pros and cons of trading a “landline” for a mobile phone and ways to add curb appeal. There was a … Continue reading →

Do You still have a Landline at Home?

If you still have a “real” phone or a landline, you’re still like the majority of homeowners, but that may change before long. Many people are doing away with landlines to go wireless. Between cell phones and VOIP (voice over Internet phone) service, fewer consumers are utilizing traditional phone companies. In many cases, they are able to save a decent amount of money, since there are great packages some Internet and wireless phone companies offer. The plans tend be quite competitive with typical phone bills. In some areas, it’s simpler to keep regular phone service, especially if your Internet Service … Continue reading →

FYI: Cool Pet/Animal Tip Offs Fellow Families.com Members Have Shared With Me

The other day I wrote about My Life as a Pets Blogger Parts I and II, but something I forgot to mention is how sometimes people pass neat stories or otherwise pet-related info my way. (Like Aimee did with an article that I referenced in Michael Vick Learns Animal Lovers Are a Force to Be Reckoned With.) Well, Aimee’s done it again, but so have a couple of others. I’d like to share with you what they shared with me, because you might find it equally interesting. The Michael Vick Pet Chew Toy This one came to me again courtesy … Continue reading →

No One Talks Anymore

Will talking go the way of the dinosaur? With all of the new data-driven diversions out there for cell phones and computers, it seems that people are choosing to communicate less by using their vocal cords. At least, that is the claim from a recent report by Forrester Research, which studied cell phone use. The report shows that at least half of all mobile phone subscribers use services other than voice when communicating. In other words, there is a lot of messaging and typing going on and less actual speaking. One of the reasons that there are so many new … Continue reading →

A Question A Week: Cellphones vs Landlines

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This is ongoing series where I ask a question a week to my readers. To see the post where this all started, check this out. My question this week is about communication: How many of my readers have opted to skip having a landline, and just have a cell phone and high-speed Internet? This is actually what I have going; since my husband and I moved into our home almost five years ago, we’ve only had a cell phone, no landline. At the time of the move-in, because we were very poor, we only had one cell phone, and no … Continue reading →

Privacy in the Modern Marriage – Time & Technology Make Us Vulnerable

Privacy is a privilege that many of us cling to in a time when emails can be transmitted from one computer to another in nanoseconds. Privacy in the modern marriage is based more on trust than ever before. You can pick up your spouse’s cell phone and in short order have access to their email, their text messages and even the stored list of phone numbers. Privacy in the age of the Internet is a complicated issue. For even the most sensitive of data, you just require a few key numbers to enter and most married couples know their spouse’s … Continue reading →

Driving With Distractions

You might not be surprised to find out that a recent study from the University of Utah found that driving while using a cell phone can be a major road hazard! A spokesman for the study compared the distraction of using a cell phone while driving with the impairments associated with driving drunk. The University of Utah study tested the driving skills of 40 different people (25 men and 15 women) on a driving simulator under four different conditions: No distractions Talking on a hand-held cell phone about a favorite subject Talking on a headset/hands-free cell phone about a favorite … Continue reading →

Cell Phones and Sperm Count

Planning to start a family? You might want to cut back on your cell phone time. A recent study from the Cleveland Clinic suspects that there might be a connection between a decline in male fertility and increased cell phone usage. The Cleveland Clinic study included 364 men who were evaluated for infertility between September 2004 and October 2005. Testing tracked sperm quantity and quality; participants were also asked about cell phone use and habits. The lowest average sperm counts (66 million per milliliter) seemed to come from men who used their cell phones for four hours or more per … Continue reading →

Cancer and Cell Phones

A recently published study from the Danish Cancer Society is ready to put to rest the fear that cell phones cause cancer. Since 1982, the Danish Cancer Society has been watching and testing cell phone users. In twenty-one years of study, there was no rise in cancer among cell phone users. More than four hundred and twenty thousand Danish cell phone users participated in the study. On average, the participants used a cell phone for eight and a half years; some of the participants had their phones for the duration of the study, which started in 1982 and ran through … Continue reading →

Look Who’s Talking!

Do you have a cell phone? In this day and age, I wonder if that is a silly question to ask? I know a few people who live cell phone free lives and are none the worse for doing so. On the other hand, I am sure that like me, you know a few people who are addicted to their cell phones (heck, the addicted person in question could be you). I am not here to judge. Unlike talk-show host Regis Philbin I am not looking to ban cell phones from the face of the planet. I just want to … Continue reading →