Archive for January, 2007
Monday, January 29th, 2007
The 15 Tools Every Homeowner Should Own
Here’s kind of a cool article to scope out on the Real Estate section of MSN about tools every home should have. You can read the entire article by CLICKING HERE but I have listed their “Essentials” and “Nice-to-Haves” below. Having spent over ten years in hardware stores and and about six years as a [...]
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Monday, January 29th, 2007
Good Earth Teas
   I am sitting here writing this blog and drinking the best tea in the world, in my humble opinion. That tea is Good Earth Original. Where did I get it, why right off of our shelves, of course. Yes, we are now stocking Good Earth Teas!
   Good Earth makes a wide variety of wonderful [...]
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Thursday, January 25th, 2007
Question of the Day II
A few days ago I wondered why people call a garage door opener remote a garage door opener. Today, along those same lines, Â I am wondering why people call a door bell button a doorbell. It happens all the time. People ask for a door bell, and we show them the door bells. They say, [...]
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Thursday, January 25th, 2007
The Use of Bump Keys
Well, somewhat against my better judgement, I have decided to post this video about the use of bump keys. It’s against my better judgement for two reasons actually… first, this guy bought his file at Home Depot instead of ACE and second, passing along information on ways to breech security is considered to many to [...]
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Monday, January 22nd, 2007
Owners Manuals II
Not to keep bringing this up, but here’s another good example of people not reading owners manuals. On Car Talk this weekend a man from Denver called up to ask about driving on ice. He said his brakes had a funny feeling. Oh he knew how to drive on ice and snow, all right, he [...]
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Thursday, January 18th, 2007
Owners Manuals
    We’re not certain why, but we’ve had a very large increase of people asking for instructions lately. People will come in the store, some call on the phone, and ask about how to use something that they have bought. Now, we deal with this all day long. No big deal, that is what we’re [...]
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Tuesday, January 16th, 2007
Question for the day
   Why does everyone call a garage door opener remote control a garage door opener? You don’t call a television remote control a television do you? Your dvd player has a remote control, but you don’t call it a dvd player do you. I’ll bet fully 98% of the people who have questions about a garage [...]
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Monday, January 15th, 2007
Landmann Fire Starters
Landmann Fire Starter packs have now become one of my favorite things. They are a great example of an item that is new, a little different and you’re not really certain if they’ll work well or just be another gadget type thing that you can do without. At least that’s what I thought. I must [...]
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Sunday, January 14th, 2007
Win an ACE Hardware… the whole store!
In case you haven’t heard about this crazy contest to own an ACE Hardware store yet, I thought I would drop a post about it. I doubt that myself, despite this being my 10th year of ACE Hardware experience, I could win the skills contest. But, if you take on this “Apprentice” style contest maybe [...]
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Thursday, January 11th, 2007
Metric crescent Wrench
You may have heard the old joke about sending someone to the hardware store to get a metric Crescent wrench. Well now if you try to pull that one on a friend, they’ll just come back to you with a metric Crescent wrench. Yes indeed we do now stock such an item.
Let’s back up to [...]
