Your vote counts. You always hear this, especially around election time. Now more than ever your vote counts, especially in today's economic environment. We are trying to save money in everything we do. We have to cut corners because gas prices are at an all time high, the costs of good and services are higher than ever and now there are fewer opportunities to buy a house and see it grow in value. What can we do to make a difference? Where can we cut a corner but still add value to our biggest investment ? the house we live in.

I needed a new kitchen, but I only had seventeen hundred dollars ($1700.00) to work with. I realize this is an odd amount, but it is every extra dollar I saved over the last two months and I decided this was the amount I was going to work with. I priced out kitchen cabinets at the big home improvement store and left the store in a state of shock. I needed a total of 9 cabinets (I don't have a big kitchen) and the store wanted almost three thousand dollars ($3,000). I knew I could save some money by doing the work myself, but the materials were still more expensive than anticipated.

After the disappointment from the local kitchen cabinet store I decided to look online for discount kitchen cabinets. This is when I came across Ready To Assemble Kitchen Cabinets. I am some what handy and the sales pitch for this type of cabinet is less expensive and easy to assemble. I was willing to price these RTA cabinets out and see the difference. I was surprised to see the huge savings. The RTA kitchen cabinets were almost forty percent less than the retail cabinets.

Since I was buying them online, quality was a huge concern. Maybe that is why the cabinets were so cheap, maybe they were lacking in quality. Instead I found the RTA cabinets to be as good in quality. In fact, there are several types of RTA kitchen cabinets and the best kinds are the ones that have plywood sides and solid wood faces. Avoid RTA products that are built out of particleboard. I found that particleboard takes on moisture and will eventually fall apart. (You don't want a particle board kitchen cabinet; it does not make sense, no matter what the logic behind it is).

So in the end, I spent less than my budget on the kitchen cabinets, I had money left over for other accessories in the kitchen and I was happy with the quality of the kitchen cabinets. I improved the equity in my house without spending a lot of money. This was due to my willingness to renovate the kitchen my self and because I used RTA kitchen cabinets. My vote goes for the RTA kitchen cabinet. This type of product saved me money and time. I did not have to leave my house; the cabinets were delivered right to my door. Saving time and gas money helped cut a corner and kept my renovation project going.