Yearly Archives: 2015

If you've ever painted on textured walls, you know how hard it is to create a crisp straight edge. Products like "Frog Tape" are supposed to help, but they don't. Paint is very good at sneaking underneath your tape, resulting in a jagged line when the tape is removed. This quick tip shows a very easy way to create a guaranteed straight line!

It took us an entire year of house hunting before we landed on this particular one. The house supposedly had an "upgraded" kitchen and it did at least have stainless steal appliances. And pink counters. Wait, pink? Yeah, from the very start (a good 5 years ago) we decided that obviously atrocious pink counters would be the first to go. Obviously! But something happened along the way...

I was inspired to try woodworking by watching The New Yankee Workshop with the incomparable Norm Abram. I scrounged together a used Craftsman "contractor style" table saw and a router; commandeered one stall of our garage; and dove right in. My first project (back in 2006) was a doll bed fit for an American Girl doll. Yeah, I made a lot of mistakes, but you have to start somewhere!

Dave Ramsey is undoubtedly one of the most influential authors in the personal finance and FI/RE communities. One of his most quoted posts was back in 2010 regarding compound interest, called "How Teens Can Become Millionaires". It teaches a concept that is critically important... but the way it's done is borderline deceptive!

Well, after several years of saying "we should create a blog", we decided that either it's time to actually start it up, or just give up on the idea entirely. You're seeing that we decided on the former path. We don't know what we're doing. Neither of us have ever had a public blog of any sort. The goal is to also have a YouTube channel -- that'll be completely new to us, too. But that's sort of the point of granworks. We go through life jumping headfirst into something and hope that we'll figure how it works as we go. Why would this blog be any different?