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How to easily add a thermostat to most any fan (without doing any electrical wiring)

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As you well know, summer will soon be on its way.

Like me, you might be planning to use a fan to keep a room or outbuilding cool this summer to get you through the heat of the day.

Personally, I love using a big box-type fan like the ones you can get at Walmart for around twenty bucks.

Those fans work well and move a lot of air, but they have one huge downside: They don’t have a thermostat.

I don’t know about you, but I hate waking up shivering at 2AM with the fan blowing cold air all over me!

Well, I’ve found the perfect solution…

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Have lots of plastic food storage containers with no lids? You need this!

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If your kitchen is like mine you probably have a cabinet full of perfectly good plastic food storage containers but no lids to go with most of them.

Of course those containers still work just fine by covering them with aluminum foil or clingy plastic wrap, but I recently discovered a handy product that works so much better!

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Meeting a friend for dinner at a restaurant you’ve never dined at before? Check out the menu online in advance!

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Have you ever agreed to meet a friend for dinner at a restaurant you’d never eaten at before?

If so, you probably had to look at the menu for several minutes before you were able to decide what to order.

This usually isn’t an issue if the restaurant is new to both you and your friend, but if your friend is a regular customer he/she probably already knows what they want to order.

That means they’ll have to sit there counting the squares in the tile floor while you go over the menu several times.

Luckily, this issue is usually very easy to avoid…

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This one awesome tool can make your gardening tasks so much easier!

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Do you enjoy working in your yard or garden but find it difficult to use pruning shears due to pain and stiffness in your hands due to arthritis?

If so, there’s a wonderful tool that makes pruning shrubs and small tree branches almost as easy as pushing a button…

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