Hi Friends,
What does it mean if you
give someone daisies? Is it appropriate to send red roses to a new
boss? Are lilies only for
funerals?
You may not know the
answers to these questions, but rest assured someone does! It’s best to
do a little research on flower-language before sending your next bouquet.
1) Daisies stand for
innocence – an appropriate gift for a younger person
2) Red roses are
right for a passionate love, but not for your boss!
3) Lilies stand for
innocence, the restored innocence of the departed soul in the case of
funerals. Best to avoid for the living as it may be misunderstood.
Wait, there’s more:
You can see how a simple
bouquet could get you in a world of trouble here!
Fortunately, most florists
provide a wide selection of mixed bouquets, and better yet lots of good
advice.
Your flooring
consultant,
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Saturday, June 27, 2015
How Flowers Can Get You in Trouble? | E-Home Advisor June 27, 2015 | Capell Flooring and Interiors
Saturday, June 20, 2015
Do You Still Write Checks | E-Home Advisor June 20, 2015 - Capell Flooring and Interiors
Hi Matt,
Back in the old days – which in financial terms
is 20-30 years ago :) – pretty much everyone with a bank account wrote checks.
People still do, but the numbers are declining rapidly, since there are so many
other options.
Three decades ago, most banks still returned
the cancelled checks, which served as excellent proofs of payment.
“Cancelled” means your financial institution stamped it on the back with the
date they made payment from your account.
Then more people began paying with credit
cards, debit cards came on the scene, but primarily a new system of fund
transfers came into play.
You’ve been using this last one for years: it’s
called AFT (automated funds transfer) or EFT (electronic funds transfer).
This is how most people pay auto insurance or internet fees or gym
memberships. Once you give the payee your bank encoding info, they take
the payment out of your account each month automatically. In fact, most people
are paid this way, by direct deposit into their account.
There’s another system you can use for paying
bills, one you control more directly. Financial institutions now – even
the smallest – have internet banking. Through a secure connection, you
can access their list of payees and set up your bill payments online. You
can pay service providers when you like or on a recurring basis, say $100 on
the 15th of every month.
Your financial institution provides a
confirmation number – at the time of payment – which you can use as
proof. If a provider ever does dispute payment, the bank will back you
up.
But if you’re looking for ironclad proof,
there’s the good old-fashioned money order. These may cost a tiny bit
more than checks – and a certain number are generally included in account
packages – but for security they can’t be beat.
- Only the
person to whom the money order is payable may cash it. This is true
of checks as well, but checks are easier to forge.
- The funds
are taken out of your account immediately: the money order is like
currency in that way.
- You receive
a duplicate on the spot, proof that the funds were transferred from your
account to the money order.
- The money
order can be traced by the bank if any questions do arise. They can
trace where, when and into whose account the order was deposited.
Oh, and about that gym membership, the one you
cancelled two years ago but they keep taking the money out of your
account? Your financial institution can help you there too…stop payments
work very well, especially if they send it back “refused”.
Your flooring consultant,
P.S. Who is the next person you
know who needs new flooring right now? Can I count on you to pass my name
along to them? You’ll be doing them a tremendous favor by referring them
to a professional they can trust. Plus you’ll be rewarded for your
referrals, just ask us how with our new Referral Connections program!
Thank you!
Saturday, June 13, 2015
Sleeping in the Dark | E-Home Advisor June 13, 2015 - Capell Flooring and Interiors
Hi Matt,
If you’re having trouble sleeping – and many of
us do – here’s something you may not have tried.
We have more than one biological clock in our
body as it turns out. Recent research indicates that pretty much every
organ has its own circadian rhythm and keeping them in sync helps us keep our
sleeping schedule intact.
A number of consequences stem from disrupted
sleep: blood sugar control is impacted, hunger hormones disrupted, blood
pressure raised and immune systems compromised. So in addition to the
stress of not getting enough sleep, you can add the risks of diabetes, obesity,
hypertension and getting sick more often.
So what can we do to make all our body clocks
happy? One thing for sure: keep a routine. Decide what the
best hours are for you, given that you should likely get 7-9 hours for optimum
health. Let’s say you’d like to get up at 7am and go to bed at
11pm. That leaves 8 hours of sleep, which is plenty. Now stick to your
schedule. After a while, it will become routine.
But the best plan for getting to sleep
is keeping it dark. Those circadian rhythms set us up to sleep at night
and be active during the day. That means we need bright light in daytime
– which many of us don’t get if we’re indoors – and darkness when we sleep.
So here are your best strategies – even if you
work shift work and have to be up all night:
- Get some
bright light during your waking hours. If you can, take the
opportunity to step outside on your lunch break. For shift workers,
bright artificial light does the job too.
- Make sure
your bedroom is dark. You can use “blackout” curtains if you have to
sleep during the day.
- No devices
that shed light. This means televisions, tablets and above all
smartphones. In fact, staying away from light sources and screens
for an hour before bedtime is a great idea.
Your flooring consultant,
Wednesday, June 10, 2015
The Art of Vacuuming – Capell Flooring and Interiors
The
Art of Vacuuming – Capell Flooring and Interiors
It may seem obvious, but do you know
all techniques to vacuum your carpet? Here are a few helpful hints to make
household cleaning and vacuuming more beneficial to your carpet:
1. Dust your room from “the
top-down” before. Allow gravity to work for you as you clean.
2. When your vacuum cleaner bag
reaches half-full, change it. As bags or containers begin to fill-up, they
become less efficient.
3. Store things like shoes off the
floor to make vacuuming in closets easier.
4. If you live in a two-story house,
go ahead and get two vacuum cleaners: one for the upstairs and one for the
downstairs. Don’t let to the hassle of carrying your vacuum cleaner up and down
a flight of stairs keep you from the proper vacuuming.
5. To clean carpeted stairs, work
from the top–down with a hand-held vacuum cleaner.
6. Setting the vacuum cleaner height
correctly really does make a difference.
7. Always look for the Carpet and
Rug Institute Seal of Approval on vacuum cleaner equipment and attachments. It’s
your assurance that you’re buying the best tools for the job.
In order to achieve proper
vacuuming, it should ideally occur about once a week in most homes. The more
traffic you have in certain areas, like hallways, around entrances, etc., the
more often you should do it.
These tips come from one of carpet
manufacturers Beaulieu- Thanks!
Be sure to checkout Professional carpet cleaning advice for tips on how proper vacuuming should work in conjunction
with professional cleaning. More information can be found at the Beaulieu® of
America Carpet Care Guide &
Warranty Information.
Saturday, June 6, 2015
HAVOC on a Venus Honeymoon | E-Home Advisor June 6, 2015
Hi Friends,
Unlike the gentle name,
planet Venus is not the most hospitable place for humans. It’s
exceptionally hot for one thing: around 860 degrees F (460 C). Probes
that do land on the surface send back only a couple of hours of data before
melting into a puddle.
But now, some NASA
scientists think it’s a pretty fine idea to go back to Venus, with astronaut
missions no less. Only not to the surface, thanks very much.
Instead, the research
concept called Project HAVOC envisions airships cruising through the toxic
(but romantic) skies above the planet.
These helium-filled
balloons would hover 30 miles above the surface, where the temperature is a
balmy 167 Fahrenheit.
Project HAVOC envisions
eventual cloud cities over Venus.
So it’s only a matter of
time before we get the glossy ads and brochures!
Your flooring consultant,
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shopping for new floors with our FREE Design Audit!™
The Design Audit™ is a
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They’ll walk you through a
series of questions that will help narrow down the thousands of options to
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They’ll also give you a
written, customized “maintenance” plan with their professional recommendations
for getting the longest life and beauty out of your floor.
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