DiggersList For Disasters

We often lead ourselves to believe that a natural disaster will never hit our home. Yet, thousands of people’s homes are annually hit by fire, floods, earthquakes, tornados and hurricanes.  What’s worse, many home owners don’t carry the proper insurance to cover damages caused by natural disasters.

Matt Knox, Founder and CEO of DiggersList, a home improvement online resource, has 10 quick and cheap home-protection tips that will help you minimize damages to your home and your wallet.

For earthquakes:

• Fasten lamps, china and other small valuables to shelves or surfaces with puttylike anchoring or museum wax.
• Install latches on cabinet door in order to keep contents inside
• Secure your water heater to a wall stud with a water-heater strap

For fires:

• Install a fireplace screen to keep embers inside
• Have a spark arrestor installed in your chimney

For floods and rain:

• Install weather-stripping on and around doors and windows to prevent water from seeping into your home.
• Install storm shutters or create your own using precut sheets of plywood cut to fit into each window
• Install storm doors

Many of these items can be found via DiggersList, which when compared to stores like Home Depot can get save you 50 cents to the dollar on every purchase.

DiggersList is now available in Arizona, California, Illinois, Massachusetts, Nevada, New Hampshire, New York, North Carolina, and Texas. However, they are looking for referrals to new cities to start lists in. So you can goto DiggersList.com and suggest a new city now.

The Plus Size Mommy

Boiron – Homeopatic Products*

I was recently given samples of Boiron products while attending the Type A Mom blogger conference. I will say I was hesitant to try them, as I never have used homeopatic medicine on my children before. I didn’t know anything about them and this is just something new to me, but now after reading about it on the package and now trying them, I am set on them!

My daughters have had this atrocious cough. I used the “Chestal Honey”, by putting 1/2 tsp. in some tea for them, and the cough keeps away for like at least 4 hours, letting me get SOME sleep! Boiron is a homeopatic medicine. children’s. It is a cough syrup. Works wonders!! Our pediatrician said cough can last weeks after having H1N1, am so happy they have this to relieve it a bit for them (and me).

I have also tried the Boiron, Oscillococcinum it is for flu like symptoms, I used it for my sons. no side effects, they are like little pellets that melt on their tongues. helps fever, chills, and body aches and feeling run down ness. It helped them tremendously. I am totally rethinking like tylenol and so on for my kids now. My mom has also tried some adult cough one from Boiron and loves it as well. Check them out!

Hear what my friends are saying about the Boiron products too after I posted about my experience on facebook:

• “Love this! I was in europe with Bella and the doctor there prescribed it for her. She got better in like two days and now we take it all the time!”
• “I hope they get better soon! Thanks for the tip on Chestal Honey, I use some of the other Boiron products myself.”

I believe that a lot of moms are scared to give medications to their kids with all the callbacks and effects that they can do to them. I believe that moms are looking for a safe alternative that will still provide the same outcome for their children.

These medications are not as well known in the area of where I live as say tylenol or advil. But being a user and now a believer of how they work, if someone asks me for a tip on what to do to ease a cough for their child, you better believe I am going to tell them try the Chestal!!!

If you would like to try this medicine to keep your family healthier this flu season (everyone should be jumping on this!) here is a link to the Boiron site as well as they have a $1 off coupon on there to help you save money while trying out their products : http://children.boironusa.com/

there is also a FAQ page on the site so you as a parent can make intelligent choices and decide about the homeopatic products for your child(ren).

Have you ever tried homeopathic medicines? Homeopathy is a theraputic method used to help the body rebalance and heal itself using natural substances in micro-doses. If you HAVE tried homeopathic medicines I would love you to comment and share with us (me and other readers) your experiences. If you do not use them, please also comment and share with us your reasons why ? I would love to hear all of your opinions on this subject

“Here’s to keeping your household happy and healthy!!”

The Plus Size Mommy

* after writing this post, I was included into a campaign due to my relationship with the One 2 One network, and so, to be transparent, I am disclosing that I am also using this post to be a part of their Boiron campaign.

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