This year, Daylight Savings falls on Sunday, November 4th at 2:00am. Canadians gain an hour of sleep but lose an hour of daylight…and cold weather is ushered in. What’s not to love about Daylight Savings?!
Did you know that Saskatchewan doesn’t participate in Daylight Savings? I guess we’re special that way! We love to get along with our prairie neighbors, so in the spring we hang out with Alberta and plant wild roses (catchy, right?) and in the fall we snuggle up to friendly Manitoba to keep warm.
Here are some helpful tips to help the rest of you get adjusted to Daylight Savings this coming weekend:
- Prepare your kids for the adjustment – while teens and adults love that extra hour of sleep, children may have a harder time adjusting. Who wants to get woken up early by a bright eyed bushy tailed toddler when it’s time to relish that extra hour?! Start early in the week (like, now!) getting your children to stay up an extra 15 minutes or so each night.
- Try to absorb as much natural light as possible which will help you avoid the yucky winter blues and the fresh air will put you in an overall better state of mind (unless you live in Saskatchewan and the fresh air makes your nostril hairs freeze. Then, not so much.)
- If you use timers for your outside lights, make sure you reset them so you don’t have the lights on when it’s still daylight.
Daylight savings is a great time to do something hugely important for your household – check or replace those smoke, carbon monoxide and natural gas alarms! We become too comfortable with things in our households “just working” and we need to give these items in particular regular maintenance so this is an excellent time to do it twice per year. Replace batteries, and oh…make sure it’s actually attached and working.
How many of us are guilty of unplugging a smoke detector when a cooking adventure in the kitchen goes wrong, and then forgetting to hook it up again? Did you know there’s actually a smoke detector that can tell the difference between actual smoldering smoke from a fire and that of a kitchen cookie disaster?
The new IoPhic® smoke and fire alarm with breakthrough smart technology is the only alarm that virtually eliminates nuisance alarms (kitchen disasters) and protects families against slow smoldering and fast flaming fires. In fact, it detects smouldering fires 87% faster* than standard detectors, and responds quickly to fast flaming fires.
(UL217 Smoldering Smoke Test on 5/26/10, Underwriters Laboratories, Project #09CA38078)
While busy organizing for the holidays, changing the clocks for daylight savings, and making sure that your smoke, carbon monoxide and natural gas alarms are all working – consider checking out the IoPhic® smoke and fire alarm (SRP $35.99) and the The USI Carbon Monoxide and Natural Gas alarm which is a dual-sensing plug-in alarm (SRP $39.99) both available at Canadian Tire stores across Canada.
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i love how its 2 in 1
i would feel more comfortable knowing it can detect smoke and fire faster. this is great for someone who worries about little things going wrong
I need an alarm that can tell the difference between a real fire and me burning supper
I like the 2 in 1, and a better alarm is always good.
Always good to have these; esp when living in a basement suite where the gas settles.
I really like that it’s smart enough to know burnt toast from an actual fire! I don’t often burn dinner but when I do….that darn alarm!!
A must for safety. We want one for our new home. My brothers friend died of carbon monoxide poisoning. Scary thought.
These sound awesome. Our smoke alarm is old and faulty, and as for the other, we actually don’t have one. I like the way they look and would love to have them.
Love the 2 in 1. I have heard good things about these…
Looks really nice. It would replace the old ones I have
I would replace my old ones
i would replace my old ones also.
love that it’s a 2-in one deal!
This is an awesome alarm being a 2 in 1.
I live in an apartment and the smoke alarm is only a few feet from the stove, which means it goes off all of the time. I’m not that horrible a cook! The IoPhic could solve my alarming problems.
I need to replace the one that we currently use.
I’ve heard good things about these, and that they’ve saved lives. We had one awhile ago but when we moved someone forgot to pack it sadly.
It sound like a great product and they have some good advice on their website about placement of smoke alarms in your home.
I think these are terrific. I like that they have “smart” technology and won’t go off as often when i’m *trying* to cook.
How it deciphers between different smoke, burnt toast/actual fire – pretty crazy. That’s amazing.
I like that it eliminates nuisance alarms.
love the 2 n 1 feature
I love that it won’t just assume that me burning dinner means the house is burning down.
sounds great that it can differentiate between smokes…as well sometimes hubby doesnt do so well in the kitchen cooking lol
These sound great! I always end up setting off my smoke detector when I’m cooking.
I like that it “it detects smouldering fires 87% faster* than standard detectors, and responds quickly to fast flaming fires.” may I never have to test the validity of that statement