Freaky Frugalite

Springtime! It’s here! Oh, ignore all that mud and rain and frigid nighttime temperatures- there’s green out there! While shopping yesterday, the daughter and I spotted a plethora of limousines in town. It seems that every year, as soon as the snow is gone, everybody races out of their winter-weary homes to get married or [...]

Short version: I LOVE IT. Long version: …read on… While we worked on our kitchen renovation over the summer, I wanted to create a small space for a “media center.” Even if it was just a small bookshelf, I wanted to make a dedicated area for an iPod/mp3 dock. Our previous little CD player was [...]

From this the first two weeks… To this last week…. To this, THIS week. And MAN the thing reeks like you wouldn’t believe! I had to move it far away from the clothesline to the back of the garden. It’s filled with flies, all right… but I do wonder if the thing is exacerbating the [...]

UPDATE: This story has a happy ending. YAY for Hamilton-Beach! See the gory details here. Remember when I blogged about loving my new Hamilton-Beach Brew Station coffeemaker? Yeah- that REALLY expensive one?! It stinks. I finally trashed it today, after enduring the leaking spout for about two weeks. My endurance is gone, totally gone. It’s [...]