Saving Money

Ask a homeowner what the one downside of home ownership is, and you’ll likely hear two words: Fixing things.  Home systems inevitably fail over time, from kitchen appliances to pipes to heating and AC systems, and when they fail, they cost money to fix. (Sometimes a lot of money). But there are some things you…

On a June afternoon in 1752, so the story goes, Benjamin Franklin flew a kite in a thunderstorm in Philadelphia. His hypothesis was that lightning contained electricity. Sure enough, his silk kite picked up ambient electricity from the lightning. Ben was lucky — had lightning actually struck the kite, he would have been electrocuted. The…