There is no happier cat than one who is curled up in a little box. OK, well, one that is killing a spider might be equally happy, but that’s not as cute. This wooden box is a drawer I’ve had since I was in college. I got it when the school threw out a bunch of old furniture from the dorms. … Read more
Lilo thinks it’s too long since she’s been in a blog post. So she asked me to write a thriftiness post featuring one of her favorite forms of prey: The number 2 pencil! If your cat is not familiar with this wonder, just wiggle a pencil in front of its face a few times, or maybe tap it on the … Read more
The first time I saw a Swiffer, I fell over laughing. Certainly this strange marriage of a broom and a mop wouldn’t catch on, right? Brooms and mops are inexpensive and reusable; for a Swiffer, you’re stuck having to buy refills for the rest of the tool’s life. Clearly, I’m not a natural-born product developer. I’ve since come to accept that Swiffers have … Read more
My dish gloves sprang a leak this morning, ending their usefulness in this particular incarnation. So I turned them into rubber bands. Since the latex in dish gloves is pretty thin, these aren’t the world’s strongest rubber bands. But they’re pretty handy when I want to bundle something up without leaving marks on it – for example, a poster or … Read more