Category: Frugality
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Time Can’t Wash Us Off
Sitting here eating a homemade muffin filled with homemade strawberry jam. “Did you grow the strawberries yourself?” wondered my mom when I gave her some of the muffins. Well, no, but they were Jersey strawberries. A little bit of June in November. Here’s the recipe. I cranked these out yesterday because I was bound and…
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My Appliances Hate Me
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No Money, No Problems
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The Why and the How of Chickens
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What Has Two Thumbs and Blew Off Food Shopping?
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Saturday Interlude
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Sandy Feet to Soccer Cleats
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Every Night Is a Saturday Night
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Beachin’ It
Yippee! I’m at the beach, finally. My husband forgot that this particular beach rental rents from Sunday to Sunday, not Saturday to Saturday. He called me Saturday evening as I was just about to pull up to the rental. He was about 20 minutes behind me in his car and had just realized his mistake.…
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Places I’d Rather Be
In a subterranean home theater with leather recliners where the thermostat reads 65 degrees, watching Mad Men from start to finish. On a cruise to Alaska, like my neighbors. In Maine. At that restaurant in Atlantic City where they keep it really cold inside and they serve chilled vodka at tables made of ice blocks (or…