Before You Blow Your BREAKER!

Some great advise from Good Sam...

Take a minute and see how many amps you could be using in your RV or Camper's 30 or 50 amp electrical system. Its surprising how fast the amps add up which causes your breaker or Campsite's breaker to "trip". Knowing the amps of all the electrical appliances in your RV or Camper can help you manage electrical use and prevent the inconvenience of "My Electricity Went Out!" This list is the typical appliances used and the average amps required to operate them:

Air Conditioner: 15 - 17 amps

Refrigerator: 5.7 amps

Electric Water Heater: 12.5 amps

Microwave Oven: 12.8 amps

Electric Coffee Pot: 9 amps

Toaster: 10 amps

Hair Dryer: 10 amps

TV: 2 amps

Dirt Devil Hand Vacuum: 2 amps

Electric Fry Pan: 10 amps

Iron: 10 amps

Food Processor: 6 amps

Crock Pot: 1.5 amps

Heating Pad: 0.5 amps

1,100 Watt Heater: 10 amps

In the morning, if your air conditioning and the electric hot water heater is on, and then you start the coffee pot, make some toast, watch some TV, you ill be pulling 50 amps and LOOK OUT! Most RVs have a switch so you can run only the microwave or the hot water heater at one time - HOWEVER NOT ALL RVS HAVE THIS FEATURE.

Most electrical products show how many watts or amps it takes to operate the appliance printed on the product itself or on the instructions. If it shows the watts, divide the watts by 120 (volts) and that gives you the amps. To get the watts, multiply the amps by 120 (volts).

Its worth your time to take an inventory on the "amps" each of your electrical appliance uses, then you can manage your total usage at one time and this greatly reduces the "My Electricity Went Out!" anxiety.

TREASURE YOUR CHEST! Breast Cancer Awareness T-Shirts

(rough draft - color to come) 

October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month!
 

  Salty Paws is selling 2011 Breast Cancer Awareness T-Shirt

to raise money for
The American Cancer Society to
FIGHT cancer!

Last year Friends of Salty Paws raised over $1500.00 to fight breast cancer by buying "Big or Small - Save 'em All" T-Shirts. What started as a small hope to sell 35 shirts, blossomed in us selling over 150 and we could have sold more! Our 2011 Goal is to raise over $5000.00 for the American Cancer Society!  This year, we have enlisted the awesome help of Hanger 5 Shirt Company to design and screen print the shirts.  We plan to have it in stores by October 7th.

TREASURE YOUR CHEST!

We choose this theme to reflect our customer's love for travel and adventure.  The shirt is in the design stage now and as we get the artwork color proofs we will start posting them on our website and facebook page! This year will make you feel like you have just fought cancer while visiting the Pirates in the Keys!

BENEFITING WHOM?

All profits from the shirts will benefit The American Cancer Society.  And this year, 50% of the funds will go towards the fight against breast cancer and 50% will go to fight all cancers! Why do this? Because cancer has affected so many and to polarize one cancer only helps a few, we want to help many. When color is added, you will notice a few other ribbon colors along with the pink ribbon for Breast Cancer; this will symbolize all cancers we hope to fight! 

WHY ARE WE DOING THIS?  

In July, breast cancer stole my 53 year old sister, Julie! Two years ago it stole my dear friend, Cheri Edelen! And cancer has touched my mom, my dad, my aunt and countless friends. So we are fighting for them and your family too!

OPEN INVOICE / OPEN BOOK... 

We will have on display the quote and invoices of what we paid for the shirts this year. As we keep tabs of the money that has come in and gone to The American Cancer Society, you will be able to see what money has come in and what is going to The American Cancer Society. Salty Paws makes no money from the sale of this shirt.

NOW THE DETAILS ...

SHORT SLEEVE T-SHIRTS

COLORS OF SHIRTS:  

Lime Green or Azalea Pink 

SIZES AVAILABLE:  

Men's Sizes:   Small - 3XL 

COST:

Small - XL:   $20.00 

2XL & 3XL:  $22.00

 

PREORDER NOW:

If you are interested in pre-ordering a t-shirt, here is what we need...

• Your Name
• Your Phone Number
• Quantity
• Size: S, M, L, XL, 2XL or 3XL (men's size shirts)
• Base Color of Shirt - Azalea Pink or Lime Green
• S - XL are $20.00
• 2XL and 3XL are $22.00

Well, that's all the details for now. As we get the color proof in, we will share more.

Remember, schedule your mammogram if you haven't had one in the last 12 months!

Big or Small, Save 'em All!

Love and Thanks!
Carol