I just went through that process after finding a clearance induction range and this how i replaced two sets of Revere cookware: Go to Tuesday Morning and/or TJ Maxx Make sure you carry a magnet with you I purchased a TVS 12" ($24.99) and 8" non stick skillet (14.99) TJ Maxx quality Italian cookware Europeans have been using induction for years Berndes Coquere Induction 5-1/2-Quart Stock Pot Tuesday Morning (2/3 off retail) Very Nice! Well built German Cookware. Berndes Coquere Induction 3.15-Quart Sauce Pot Tuesday Morning Well built German Cookware Tramontina 6.5 qt. Enameled Covered Cast Iron Dutch Oven $39 Sams Club (Le Creuset performance without the $$$$$$$$$$$) recommended by Cooks illustrated Le Creuset 3 1/2 Qt. Braiser $149.00 TJ Maxx Worth every penny! Lucked into a Closeout on a complete set (14 Pieces of Cuisinart stainless steel induction cookware) $91 Sam's CLub Induction is definitely a time saver. you can cook with lower heat and it heats the pan very fast. Water Boils in 4 minutes. Hope this helps!

Typically you would babysit at the other person's house. I know this isn't exactly what you've asked. I'm really picky about who I leave my kids with. I've never allowed anyone who wasn't a good adult friend or relative to watch my kids. Here are some suggestions/things to think about and also things that I would be looking for in a babysitter and whether I would hire him/her on a regular basis. Write up a flyer that is equivalent to a resume/cover letter - name, address, phone number. What are your qualifications? Are you responsible and dependable? Do you have experience? Have you had any CPR or child care training? What days and what hours are you available? Do you have some people besides your mom and dad and other relatives that would give you a character reference? Do you have transportation to get to and from the job or do you need to be picked up? Will you play with the kids or will you pop a video in and have them watch tv the whole night?

The girls my niece's age most definitely don't want their younger siblings along. Plus, I can send two almost-11-year-olds to the park together for an hour, but I can't send a 7-year-old boy I barely know along with them. Which means that either they have to stay at home or one of us adults has to go with them. Another variant I've found are two families who, when we invite the girls over, will say that they like to keep the kids together and thus turn the invitation around and invite my niece to their house. Which is better than inviting their kid to our house, but still means that my niece doesn't get to spend time just with her friend, and doesn't get to play in her own room with her friend. With one of her friends, I would say that for every one time her friend is allowed to come to our house without her brother (which is the only way I'll take her), my niece is over their house 5-6 times. And I *like* having the kids at our place. It's too bad. My niece is an only child, so when we go places, we often like to invite a friend along for her. She will sometimes suggest one of the friends with younger brothers, but we don't even ask anymore, as we've heard the same answer over and over.

cheryl E, I had two poor performing Fridgidaire Affinity front loaders for 12 years (not at the same time-2nd was a replacement for the first). They did not clean well. They also were prone to having an unappealing odor. I kept the door open when not being used. The only time the door was closed was when the washer was in use. The first washer did not have a 'clean washer' cycle. So I put a cup of bleach on my hot cycle with no laundry in it every two weeks to suffice. Still was not fresh and my towels became contaminated and smelled moldy. 2nd washer did have a 'clean washer' cycle that was hidden from the control panel. You had to press this button, while pressing that button and hold it in place for 30ish seconds then the clean washer cycle would activate. I did that every two weeks with a cup of bleach, then I upped my game and immediately did another clean washer cycle after the bleach one, but with a cup of vinegar. Still, not better. I kept at it though. I think there were two things that caused the issues. The first was that I was using liquid detergent exclusively and the second is that (IMO) they were simply not very good washing machines. I was using hot washes for my whites and lights and also using bleach in my whites loads and still, P.U. and dingy. The whites loads had detectable bleach odor as well which leads me to believe the washers did not rinse well. Moldy and bleach aroma on laundry--not fun. I used warm in my darks loads. I don't use cold wash cycles. Frequent cold washes can lead to funk build up, but I wasn't doing that. These washers, I think did not have dumbed down hot or warm cycles, but I don't know for certain. But I also don't think they had heaters to super heat the water. Super heated washes can help with laundry and washer cleanliness. Anyways, from what I've read on here (I found this group this year), the practices I used don't cause these negative issues in some (or is it many?) front loaders if they are good machines. Meaning the machines do their job well. From what I've read here, my hot washes and my bleach clean washer treatments should have abated the funk. They did not. At some point during my front loader sad and smelly times, I had read that if you use powder detergent and hot washes, along with occasional warm washes and keep up with the clean washer treatments, the problem should dissipate over time. The problem did not go away for me. I kept at it for two years. Using powder detergent was a nuisance for us at the time due to our laundry room configuration (much easier to store and use a tidy bottle than a messy box of powder when you have no place to put it), but I did not give up! I've seen videos of people with the same problem who did the clean washer treatments and all kinds of crud would release from the machine--to the point of it being visible on the video. I never had any visible crud release. I won't ever know if I didn't have crud or if the washer just never released it with the twice a month treatments since I FINALLY gave up and bought a top loading full fill washing machine. Everything is good now. I use powder detergent probably 90% of time now and I also use Borax in most loads. The Borax helps with odors for us--breaks down the body oils and sweat. My towels (the same ones that were funked out for 12 years) are fresh, bright, soft and fluffy now. Hurray! DH's white undershirts that are old and previously stinky and dingy are fantastic now. White, bright, fresh smelling. I did try Borax in my old front loaders a few times and didn't have any improvement, but I think I wasn't using enough. I use 1/2 cup in my current top loader and my daughter uses 1/4 cup in her front loader (with good results). Maybe give that a try? IMO, if you have a dud of a washer, you are more likely to have these negative issues even if you do everything right. Maybe if I was using powder detergent exclusively from the beginning, I wouldn't have had these frustrating issues since the funk would not have built up in the washer or the laundry in the first place. I'll never know for certain though. I've moved on. I hope something in here helps. Sorry to read things aren't going so great in your laundry room. I've been there and it's frustrating.