I am trying to make a clean start in my home office, which ends up being the “nerve center” of the house and all activities, so it’s best if we start there, right?
As I start the shoveling and debridement, I am finding items and developing a pet peeve that was starting to bother me, and […]
Tags: Finance · Money · society
Oooookay. Last week we talked about getting the house ready for the holidays. Hopefully you’ve gotten a start on that. I started thinking about it. That counts.
This week, let’s think about gifts. Yup, I just mentioned Christmas/Hanukkah/Kwanzaa gifts in early October. Hey, I saw a mummy […]
Yet another tactic I use to cut food costs is a subscription coupon program. You know those emails you get periodically telling how someone saved tons of money on their groceries and it only costs $20 a month? Turns out they’re telling the truth.
Bear with me now, and I’ll explain.
We all know that we can […]
A couple of years ago a friend and I decided to learn how to do the bulk cooking thing. We looked at Once a Month Cooking, read several cookbooks on the subject, and also referred to the 30DayGourmet site. Early attempts included a long day of cooking together and resulted in a lot of casseroles […]
I remember it like it was yesterday–parking in the special “mom-to-be” section, walking through the automatic doors, and encountering a space that seemed the size of a Target which held nothing but baby gear. It was overwhelming. Dizzying that there could be that much stuff to need, that much stuff to buy for […]
Tags: Pregnancy
Thursday was a particularly eventful day. It was eventful because it finally really hit me that I would be doing another triathlon in a little over a week and I still hadn’t bought the dreaded wetsuit. I checked the time and realized that I should have enough time to drive out to the […]
Tags: Beauty, Health & Fitness
We just came back from a long weekend away, driving the family minivan. Old Faithful is looking a bit banged up, inside and out, showing some of its 170,000 miles more evidently than in the past. We know we’ll need a new car some day, but in the meantime, we are nursing this […]
