Whether your moving to a new location or rearranging appliances or heavy upright furnishings, the right dolly or hand cart is critical.

Smaller and lighter hand carts like the round-handled one on the left, are made to move a small and light load of boxes. The green and larger dolly shown here is built especially to move appliances that are heavy, tall and may contain a lot of "top weight."

An appliance dolly is taller, heavier duty, comes with wrap straps and sometimes gravity conveyor wheels to aid the movement up and down stairs and other obstacles.

The bottom line is, if you're moving an appliance, use an appliance dolly!

—Whit's Appliance Repair in Bozeman, Montana

Even though "outside" is the place to be for kids, more and more children are spending a lot of time indoors (not just because of the cold Winter) and not all of that time is in front of a flat panel TV, iPad, iPod, game player or computer. Kids will be kids and exploring the house and all the uncommon rooms and basement is a rite of passage.

For the little ones in your household, safety is a constant concern and one of the most dangerous places in a house can be the laundry room. Bleach, cleaners and laundry liquids and powders can be easily ingested by a child if left in an easily-accessible location or level. Keep your laundry chemical supplies out of reach of the little ones.

And believe it or not, the laundry machines themselves pose a potential danger. Most parents can't imagine their child wanting to crawl inside the dryer or stand inside the washing machine, but we've heard of it happening, and more than just a few times. Even an older dryer or washing machine has enough power to tumble or spin a child's weight, if that child has a curious accomplice.

—Whit's Appliance Repair in Bozeman, Montana