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From Freezer to Table: Simpler Meals
I am a great proponent of menu planning (see Simplifying Dinner: Four Steps to Simplify Planning), but I find that searching out recipes can be very time consuming. For the last few weeks, I have been doing an alternate method of food prep that is giving me a break. We have been cooking from the [...]
How to Clean an LCD TV
We recently purchased a new LCD television (we won’t go into the story, but suffice it to say that I now know that when my husband says “Let’s go into Best Buy and look” it means we’re going to spend money). It’s a nice set, and I appreciated the sleekness of the design.
Until the next [...]
Balancing Life By Examining Unspoken Commitments
One of the things I struggle with is keeping a decent work-life balance. There is so much that needs to be done, and so much that I want to do! Unfortunately, these two are not always the same.
A recent blog article over at Zen Habits (Don’t Have Time for Goals? Simplify Your Commitments) talked about [...]
Growing Sprouts: Guest Article Now At AlmostFrugal
Almost Frugal was kind enough to publish an article I wrote about growing sprouts at home. Check it out: Growing Sprouts Frugally.
Boiling Water, Or Being Aware of Stress
There’s an old wives’ tale that if you drop a frog in a pot of boiling water he will jump out, but if you put a frog in a pot of cool water and slowly raise it to boiling the frog will allow himself to be boiled to death.
The “temperature” of our lives is our [...]
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