Last week, I embarked on my first foray into Ebay selling in three years. I was getting tired of Craigslist hagglers and spammers, plus some of the stuff I had to get rid of would probably never sell on Craigslist, but would on Ebay. Yesterday, besides protesting and eating pizza, I dropped off several Ebay packages at the post office. … Read more
But I think I’ll stop eating it. At least, that’s what I keep telling myself. But then I’m there at the Capitol and I’ve run out of crackers and there’s a tower of pizza boxes and some Ian’s employees are handing out huge slices and I’m hungry and, well, the next thing you know, I’ve eaten another piece of protest … Read more
I wasn’t so prolific with the getting rid of stuff this week, unless you count using up bottles of IronOut, Vanish, phosphoric acid and bleach that have been laying around for a while. No, I didn’t use them together, because that would have been stupid and potentially deadly. I know some of you are thinking that an earthy person like … Read more
The other title I had in mind for this post was “Mending Socks – No Darning Required,” but who wants to read about that except for crafty/thrifty nerds? This way, I might suck in my friends who think that mending socks is only for old ladies in Dickens novels. A few years ago – maybe in 2007 – my friend … Read more
This week was quite productive on the getting-rid-of-stuff front, despite all Freecycling coming to a halt for a day and a half during our record-breaking blizzard. I successfully parted with: a pair of Earth shoes that were cute, but too narrow for me a Saris indoor bike rack that didn’t do the best job of holding my bikes a 2nd … Read more
Today was a “look in the kitchen cupboards for stuff you haven’t used in forever, then Google said item and the word ‘recipe’ so you can finally use it up” day in my household. I found a package of potato flakes, even though I never make instant mashed potatoes. The Great Google brought me to a potato flakes discussion on … Read more