housewife on June 30th, 2009

Ever since we moved two years ago, we have been eating off plastic and paper plates. Our last set of dishes were only $10 and we thought we’ll just pick up some new ones. Well, we could never find anything we liked that was cheap as $10/set.
I love bargains and stopped by the local [...]

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housewife on June 29th, 2009

It seemed every time I would visit my grandmother - who lived about three miles from us so we would visit quite often - she would offer to make me biscuits. She made the best biscuits. My mom makes really good biscuits, too. But I have never attempted to make homemade biscuits until now.
I [...]

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housewife on June 28th, 2009

My little girl loves marshmallows and so when we go to the grocery store she usually insists on getting a bag. I comply since it’s $1 and it keeps her happy even if we have plenty of marshmallows at home. But I noticed that we had nearly 3 bags of mini-marshmallows and her marshmallow eating [...]

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housewife on June 27th, 2009

After making blueberry jam a few weeks ago, I’ve been wanting a food processor since it would have been so much easier to prepare the blueberries with one. Much to my surprise, the food processors were cheaper than I thought, so I was able to get one for $29. Last weekend I tested it out [...]

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housewife on June 22nd, 2009

This weekend I finally started to tackle the huge mess that is my kitchen. It had gotten so disorganized that even if I had something that I couldn’t find it. So it was high time to sort through it all even though I didn’t really want to.
We have very limited cabinet space and the space [...]

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housewife on June 18th, 2009

We have very limited space and since I have a laptop, I thought I would just break down my desktop. We built both our desktops a few years back. The other day I moved the monitor to my husband’s PC. It’s so nice to have two monitors.

His video graphics card can handle two monitors, so [...]

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housewife on June 16th, 2009

Blueberries are in season and so our blueberry bushes are full of them. Since we’ve moved to the country, I’ve been wanting to do more cooking and country-life activities. So since we had an abundance of blueberries, I decided to make some blueberry jam. This would be my first attempt at making jam and canning. [...]

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housewife on June 15th, 2009

Last week I was sick. It’s no fun to be sick in the summer. It just seems wrong. But like most bugs that make their way around, both my husband and daughter now have it. Thankfully I’m feeling better so that I can take care of them.
This week I have a lot of catching up [...]

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housewife on June 8th, 2009

When I run the washing machine, I smell something like rotten eggs. After an Internet search, this could be sulfur since we are on well water. Today I’m going to try a few of the suggestions to get rid of the smell just in case it isn’t sulfur.
One suggestion is to use bleach. This makes [...]

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housewife on June 4th, 2009

A dear friend of mine is getting married this weekend, so I would love to get her something nice for her wedding. But with a limited budget, my options are not that great but there is a neat website that lets you divvy up the price of an item between several people.
It may be [...]

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