The Rookie, from Maytag, is a portable minifridge for deck, den, dorm or office that keeps beverages cold from kickoff till the clock runs out. The flip-top storage bin on top can hold snacks or ice to chill the longnecks. The refrigerator handles up to four 24-pack cases of beverage cans. The backlit panel comes in your choice of major pro sports and NCAA teams. Suggested price: $199. Available at Lowe's in November. Christmas is coming; enough said.
Evacuating made easier
Hurricane evacuation tidbits we hope we never have to use enough already!: These are from FlyLady, the doyenne of the Web site of home organization www.flylady.com: Have an ice chest (or an insulated lunch bag) and cold packs for medications that must be refrigerated, such as insulin. Practice an evacuation drill. The FlyLady found it took a couple of hours - far longer than she expected - to pack her car and get ready to go. "You never know how much time you will really have," she writes.
The book on an orderly home
Does anyone's linen closet really look like this? Or kitchen utensil drawer? Or laundry room? The editors of Real Simple magazine are giving Martha Stewart a run for her money with the magazine's first book, Real Simple: The Organized Home ($27.95). With gorgeous photographs of orderly, clean, precisely organized spaces, the book will inspire or dismay. The book's suggestions are a step toward winning back the 55.2 minutes per day that a Real Simple study says American women spend looking for things.
A blow-away home show
Hurricane Alley will be open Friday through Oct. 10 at Florida's Largest Fall Home & Remodeling Show at Tropicana Field in St. Petersburg. Here's a chance to look at window protection, laminated glass and other hurricane products. Another 800 exhibitors will display items from appliances to pavers, lighting to flooring, gardening and landscaping products to decorative painting techniques. Hours: 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. Friday and Oct. 9; 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Oct. 10. Tickets: $5 adults, seniors 60 and older; free children younger than 12. On Friday tickets cost $2 less. Go to www.floridahomeshows.com for an exhibitor list and schedules of workshops and clinics.
