With my very favorite holiday just one week away, I'm gearing up!  To me, there is seriously nothing better than being surrounded by my family, and delicious eats..... All Day Long!  So, in preparation for this blessed day, I want your help.

I need your recipes!  I want to know what dishes make your mouth water this time of year! Simply email me (andie@rcwilley.com) your favorite Thanksgiving or Autumn recipe, and I'll send the first 25 of you a coupon that can be used at any of our locations to pick up a Free 14 Piece Knife Set!  I'll be posting some of the tastiest recipes I receive so that all of you can try them out too. Thanks for sharing, everyone! Here's one from me to you: the best candied yams EVER.....

Aunt Jackie's Yam & Apple Casserole

Boil & Peel 3-5 medium sized yams, then slice.  Peel and slice 6 apples (preferably Jonathan).

Alternate Yams and Apples in a buttered 9x13, pouring sauce after apple layer ( there will be about 2 layers of each). 

Sauce

1 cup brown sugar

3 Tablespoons Corn Starch in 1/2 cup cold water

1/2 teaspoon Salt

1 1/2 cups water

Juice of 1 Lemon

1/3 - 1/2 cups butter

Cook Sauce mixture on the stove until thick. 

Bake 1 hour at 350 degrees.  Enjoy!!

Anyone out there like bargains?  You'll like this then.

Yesterday CNNMoney produced an interesting article discussing Flatscreen TV Price Wars for the upcoming holiday season.  The article claimed that now is the time to purchase a 32-inch to 37-inch LCD TV because of the great prices around.  A consumer electronics expert said that he's already seeing 32-inch LCD Models that are typically $500 or more, for under $400.

Now I am by no means a television expert, but I'm a girl that understands and appreciates a good deal.  My mother certainly taught me the value of bargain shopping.  I pulled up the RC Willey website after reading the article, wondering where we stood on the price scale in regard to LCD TV's.  I must admit I was surprised when I found that we've got a 32-inch LCD TV for a whopping $299! I'm not even joking. $299!

That's way better than 'under $400', don't you think?  Maybe CNNMoney should have done a little more homework.

Check it out yourself!

Does your kitchen need an update, but you don't have the time or money to do a complete makeover?  With these simple, inexpensive, do-it yourself suggestions, you can transform your dull, lifeless kitchen into your new favorite room in the house! 

RC Willey has always been known for its large selection, excellent customer service, timely delivery, in store credit, being closed on Sundays, free hot dogs, and traditional family values.  What started out as a small family business, has evolved over the years into the largest furniture dealer west of the Mississippi!

RC Willey emerged from a small farming community, Syracuse, Utah in the early 1930's.

Rufus Call Willey started selling Hotpoint Brand appliances door-to-door in 1932.  Employed by the local electric company, he conducted his small appliance business from the back of his red pick-up truck on the side.  To guarantee customer satisfaction while electricity was still so new, Willey would lend out appliances for a week so that people could try them out.  His business continued to grow, and in 1950 he built his first store, right next door to his home in Syracuse. 

In 1954, Willey left the company due to terminal cancer and left it in the hands of his son-in-law, William Child.  He, along with his brother Sheldon, worked over the next 40 years to grow and expand the business.  Multiple stores were built along the Wasatch Front, and RC Willey became the most outstanding, well-known Home Furnishings retailer in the state of Utah.

In HFD--The Weekly Home Furnishings Newspaper, company executives credited RC Willey's success to three factors: an eye for expansion, focus on the middle segment of the market, and dedication to customer satisfaction.

In 1995 RC Willey was purchased by Berkshire Hathaway, Inc., one of the most prominent, admired companies in the world, owned and managed by investment guru Warren Buffet. 

Today, we have 13 stores located in Utah, Nevada, California, and Idaho, providing our customers with choices in furniture, electronics, appliances, mattresses, flooring, and more.  We might not do business in the back of a pick-up truck anymore, but we are still committed to value, excellence, and customer satisfaction.   

I come from a furniture family.  What exactly is a furniture family?  I'll tell you.  We think furniture.  We speak furniture.  We dream furniture.  Some families adore cute German Shepards, some can sniff out great bargains anywhere, while others can tell you the make and model of every car on the road.   My family?  I was brought up to notice the furniture.

Young girls often daydream about their future with a handsome Prince and kiddies in tow, becoming the next Madonna- Britney Spears- or Hannah Montana (depending on the generation), or how they'll save humanity with the pill that cures cancer.  I was the kid scouring through Home Furnishing Magazines determining if my style was modern or country, and if I'd paint my living room lavender, peach, or put up cream floral wallpaper.  These were important things to think about at the age of nine.

Obsessive Compulsive?  Maybe just a little.  Don't judge me for it.

At least now I can channel my love for furniture and decorating towards something: MY JOB!!

Happy Halloween!

I'm all about traditions.  Especially holiday traditions.  So much of the way I view the world today goes back to those early traditions my parents started with our little family.  Today, years later, they are still a huge part of me.

To me, Halloween means fantasizing about my costume months in advance.  It means my mother's homemade chili in bread bowls, family costume parties where we'd paint pumpkins, bob for apples, and have races eating donuts off string without using our hands. It means carving pumpkins on newspaper in our garage and throwing pumpkin goo on my little brother.  It's watching scary movies on bales of hay in a barn, getting lost in corn mazes, and hunkering down late Halloween night to sort my Trick or Treat spoils. 

Speaking of Halloween Traditions, check out some of the unique things that happen on Halloween all over the world!  You might want to try some of them out yourself.....

    - People leave their doors and windows open all night in Poland to welcome the spirits and souls of the dead.

    - It's tradition in Germany to put knives away in order to ensure the safety of the visiting dead spirits. 

    - In Portugal, people celebrate at the local Cemetery with feasts of wine and chestnuts.

    - Forget pumpkins! Kids in Scotland make Jack-O-Lanterns out of hollowed out turnips, potatoes, and large rutabagas.

    - Bread, water, and a lighted lamp are traditionally left out on the table at bedtime in Austria to welcome the dead souls back to earth.

    - In Mexico, it's tradition to light bonfires, firecrackers and candles to guide the souls of the dead home.  People enjoy picnic lunches on the graves of their relatives, and children run through the streets with lanterns asking for coins.

    - Teng Chieh, the Halloween festival in China, is a time where people place food and water in front of photographs of their relatives.

    - In Spain, "Bones of the Holy" is a special pastry that is eaten on Halloween. 

What Halloween traditions does YOUR family have??

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