Hassett Hardware Blog
Festive Holiday Décor Made Easy: A Local Bay Area Guide
Create holiday magic at home! From Christmas tree decorations to DIY wreaths and safe LED holiday lights, Hassett Hardware is your Bay Area décor guide.
Fireplaces and Phonographs in Historical San Mateo
The Wisnom Block Before Larry, Richard and Eric Hassett purchased our San Mateo location in 2009, it was called Wisnom's Hardware, named after the...
Half Moon Bay’s The HEAL Project Helps Kids Learn to Love Vegetables
Here at Hassett, we think one of the most delightful things in this world is the marvel of food growing beneath the surface where we walk. Pulling a...
Best Tool Gifts for Valentine’s Day
We're always impressed when our significant other presents us with a tool gift for Valentine's Day. Don't get us wrong, we like tools and also...
Why New Year’s Resolutions Don’t Work
We can all conjure up lists of things we'd like to change about ourselves, our jobs, our homes, our relationships. Why do we do this, set out big...
How to String Lights on a Christmas Tree
How do you string lights on your Christmas tree? It's the stuff that feuds are made of. Marriages fray. Dogs hide under the couch. It's as...
Can You Buy Double Male Extension Cords? And Why You Should Never Use Them
We get asked every year, at least a dozen times, if we sell double male extension cords. The unequivocal answer is, "No." And no one else should...
How to Start a Gratitude Practice and Why it Works
These are troubling times. Uncertain times. The war in Ukraine seems infinite, the Israel-Hamas war escalates daily and the shooting in Maine...
How to Grill Pumpkin: Five Pumpkin Recipes for Fall
Pumpkins are such a versatile squash (it's also a gourd and also a fruit and also a berry - see what we mean?) and they cook up so easily,...
How to Fix a Sticky Lock
We've all done the dance at the front door, trying to get the key in the lock just so, because it's finicky. We usually have our hands full of...