I stopped by Dollar Tree this week to pick up more picture frames for my office project. While I was there I found this bag of tiny little containers. . They are about 2 inches long by 1.5 inches wide by 1 inch deep – the perfect size for wrangling sewing doodads and easily tangled objects such as headphones. I am … Read more
When I first moved into my neighborhood, not many of the kids did trick-or-treating. My first year here, I bought a ton of candy, dressed up, and ended up spending most of the evening eating said candy by myself. I didn’t buy candy the next year. The number of trick-or-treaters has gone up in recent years, but I’m stuck in … Read more
I brought in my houseplants for winter last night. This jade is one I’ve had for several years; I started it from a cutting way back when, which is how I get most of my houseplants. What can I say? I like free stuff. But if you’ve been reading this blog, you’ve figured that out already. This year, I’ve decided … Read more
Had another garage sale this weekend. It was a neighborhood garage sale, and there was no rain, so traffic was better at this one than the last. But I made less money – about $40 total – although I had less to sell, too. I hadn’t been planning to make much money unless someone were to buy companion’s stereo set … Read more
Today was a great day for being a tightwad, and it wasn’t too bad for biking, either – despite the thunderstorm warnings, 90-degree temps and humidity. Granted, I only biked about 8 miles, and it rained lightly for part of that, which helped cool me off. Then again, it got a lot hotter and more humid after the rain, so … Read more
I have definitely slowed down at getting rid of things. Craigslist has been slow the past couple of weeks (last thing I sold was a hand-held vacuum cleaner for $15), and I haven’t posted to Ebay in a few weeks, since what I’ve got left is mostly low-value and not worth making a trip to the post office is … Read more
The past 9 days have been more about getting rid of obligations than actual things. Not obligations to other people, just to my own sense of completion. I tackled the mending pile. I mended two pairs of pants and a pair of shorts for Dekalb, who has been waiting patiently – and sometimes impatiently – since last summer for me … Read more
This week I got rid of: half a bottle of Pinesol after reading in Cat College that pine oil is highly toxic to cats – apparently they can get sick just from the fumes (via Freecycle) a gallon glass jar (via Freecycle) a 5 X 7 ft. blue cotton rug that would crumple up and slide across the floor every … Read more
Several weeks ago, I embarked on making my paint cabinet look nicer and be a bit more inaccessible to my cats. For the past several months, I’ve been using a nailed-together cabinet that a friend found on the curb. It’s obviously a homemade job, possibly assembled from old crates, and held together with nails rather than screws. It was stained … Read more
On Tuesday, I got rid of much of the scrap wood collection that has been accumulating in my basement, waiting to be disposed of. The total included: 2 milk crates full 2 buckets full a chopped-up hollowcore door that I had been using as a folding station atop my washer and dryer, but hasn’t worked for that since I moved … Read more