Bureau of Household Goods and Services

Moving is stressful. You hire a moving company and trust them with all of your worldly possessions. What could go wrong? Frankly, plenty if you haven’t done your homework. Unscrupulous moving companies are waiting to make you their next victim. They may even hold your household goods hostage. “Hold Hostage”…

For most families, it seems like the laundry never ends. Your washer and dryer are put through their paces every day, load after load after load, with no end in sight. What do you do when your appliance has had enough and stops working? It’s time to put the Service…

Don’t sacrifice safety to save a few bucks Inexpensive items at a thrift store, consignment shop, or garage sale could save you some dough, but could come at a high cost of safety for yourself and your family, according to the U.S. Consumer Products Safety Commission (CPSC). The commission’s product-safety…

Reduce worry by using licensed moving professionals We all know moving is stressful, but just how stressful is it? Well, according to a new survey, moving is more traumatic than many life events, including divorce. After polling 1,000 Americans who had moved in the past three years, the survey found…

Maintenance makes a difference; contact a licensed professional for assistance There’s nothing quite like warm laundry right from the dryer. But to keep your dryer going strong and drying safely, the U.S. Fire Administration (USFA) has some tips for you. According to USFA: 2,900 home dryer fires are reported annually,…

Licensed professionals stand ready to help make your home safer You can’t see it, hear it, or smell it, but it causes more than 400 U.S. deaths and 50,000 emergency-room visits each year. But you can stop carbon monoxide (CO) from harming you and your family. Carbon monoxide is an…

Decades of change to save children “Ready or not, here I come!” When kids heard that famous hide-and-seek phrase in the early and mid-20th century, several turned to a unique place to hide: the refrigerator. An innocent-looking refrigerator—whether new and running in the kitchen or abandoned and cast off in…

Tragedy turns into safety for Californians’ commonly used household items You may have heard of the Great San Francisco Earthquake of April 18, 1906, which ranks as one of the most devastating earthquakes of all time. But the massive fires that followed in its wake are what truly laid waste…

When Martha and Enrrique Gallard packed up their belongings in Georgia and sent them off in a moving truck headed to their new home in California, they had no idea what problems were awaiting them. But the Gallards were lucky: they found an ally in the Bureau of Household Goods…

Dishwasher sprung a leak? Diamond ring losing that special sparkle? TV on the fritz? Lawnmower stopped lawn-mowing? When a big-ticket item like a major appliance, jewelry, or garden equipment breaks, you may have a service contract or extended warranty contract to bail you out of trouble. These contracts cover your…