House and Home Editors Pick Award for October!

In their October edition, the editors of House and Home magazine selected BIGSLIDER™ as one of their featured products.

House & Home magazine is a regional Shelter publication serving the greater Philadelphia & South & Central New Jersey market. Every month, the editorial department brings affluent homeowners useful articles on maintaining and improving their homes including topics on interior design, building & remodeling and landscaping.

In their endorsement, the editors said, "Bigslider is perfect for those not accustomed to lifting and ideal for folks with aching backs. This handy 3-pound tool can help move up to 500 pounds by simply tilting, loading and sliding."


We are pleased to add this endorsement to our growing list of awards from home and garden publications around the country.

New Product Announcement: Yard Pal!

We are happy to announce our newest product, the Yard Pal!

The Yard Pal is designed for people who are looking for something for lighter moving jobs, or for working in more confined spaces. At 29.5 inches square, the Yard Pal will fit through most interior doors, making it particularly useful for moving furniture around the house or moving your personal stuff into a new dorm room at college!

This is also a "Super Green" product, as it is not only recyclable, but is made from recycled plastics! This represents the "best of the best" in environmentally sensitive products.

Top Tools for 2009 Selection!

Canadian Home Workshop Magazine has picked BIGSLIDER™ as one of their top tools for the coming year.

As they said, "... a ten year old child can move her dad."

This is the best testimony we can get for the ease of use and the power of BIGSLIDER™ in one short quote!

DIY Networks Cool Tools Pick!

The Do It Yourself Network (DIY Network) has picked the Bigslider Utility Mover as one of its "cool tools". You can see the listing on their website.

The Cool Tools section of their site, hosted by Chris Grundy, features their picks for the "newest and most innovative tools and gadgets", and we are very excited to have been selected for this honor!

Recession Proof Your Life?

With many people around the country experiencing hard times now, it is good to hear ideas from someone who had been through similar experiences and survived.

Jeri has written a short article with her suggestions for how to survive in a downturn that can provide a lot of comfort.

Some of her ideas reminded me of a period in my life where I was "between jobs" and how I handled it. I had two sons then who were between five and seven years old, and we decided to build a picnic table together. With their short attention span at that age, I obviously built most of the table myself, but I made sure that they participated in each step in the process, getting a chance to use each of the tools to cut wood, hammer nails, drill holes for screws, drive the screws, and stain the finished table. It was a great project for bonding with my sons and letting them acquire some skills and confidence.

We enjoyed the table for many years, but after some twenty years in the back yard, it was pretty badly deteriorated and we finally got rid of it. My sons never forgot the experience, however, and as a surprise for my birthday, they both came in from out of town without telling me about it. I woke up on the day to find them in the kitchen with my wife (who was in on the surprise) with a big breakfast prepared and party music on the stereo! When I recovered from the shock, they announced, "Dad, we have come in to rebuild the picnic table together!"

We had a great weekend together working on the table, creating not only another table that we enjoy, but a new set of memories that remind me how rewarding life can be even in difficult times.

Haul dirt and remodeling supplies...

Another note that we just received from a happy user of Bigslider!

I originally saw it on television during one of the home shows. It took me a while but I found the site by searching on the name, fortunately I remembered that!!! This is great. I am a woman who is consistently trying to move things about by myself. I am convinced this will allow me to tackle my 'moving' projects easier. I live on 4 heavily wooded acres and am always trying to haul dirt and remodeling supplies.

Regards,
Celina

This illustrates how useful a big piece of plastic can be for your household and landscaping activities, especially if you add a few useful features to it!

Household Moving Checklist!

Moving your household is always a major undertaking, and anything that makes it simpler and easier is appreciated. Here is a checklist that includes a number of moving tips that will come in handy for anyone contemplating making a move in the near future.

In addition to handy tips for dealing with the furniture and other objects that you are moving, Jeri thinks about what you will want to have accessible immediately when you arrive at your new home and begin the process of unpacking and moving into your house or apartment (or college dorm?)

Check out the moving checklist of ten items that you want to put in "The Last Box on the Truck"!