August 2010

Clear the Fridge Soup: Roasted Red Bell Pepper Version

August 13, 2010

Nothing would do the other day but what I had to shovel out the fridge and use some of the lifetime supplies of Costco produce before it spoiled. Three and a half bright red bell peppers and one cob of fresh sweet corn surfaced among the loot. Out of curiosity, I decided to try making [...]

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The Half-Off Diet

August 12, 2010

I just keep getting fatter and fatter. The other day I carelessly stepped on the scale (normally I try to avoid tripping over land mines) and discovered I’d gained another three pounds. Even the dog is getting fat around this place. They say if you hang out with fat people, you get fat, too. Probably [...]

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Programmable-free Electric Bill

August 10, 2010

Okay, at last the electric bill arrived. This is the first full month’s summer bill I’ve had since I replaced the dratted programmable thermostat with a plain boring digital thermostat. So! The question is… Did replacing the programmable headache thermostat with something that does not require advanced training in computer programming result in bankruptcy? And [...]

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Why Eat at Home?

August 10, 2010

Check out Richly Reasonable’s small tour de force, In or Out Burger? Cruising the Internet in search of some material for a post, she ran across an article from an apparently disinterested source claiming that a McDonald’s hamburger costs no more than a burger made at home. Breaking out the calculator, she begs to differ. [...]

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Moments of Fame

August 10, 2010

Miss Thrifty creates an awesome Carnival of Finance full of music videos: who would think so many pop stars sing about money and working? She kindly includes Funny’s squib on working smarter in the line-up. Equally cool is Simply Forties’s classic movie theme for the Carnival of Money Stories. Funny’s last-minute insight into the reason [...]

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Estate Sale Coup

August 9, 2010

Can you believe I found this at an estate sale? La Maya and I were doing some recreational estate-saling the other day when we came across this throw at an otherwise unexceptional site. Said she: “This looks hand-made.” “Couldn’t be,” said I. “There’s another one over there, across the room, just like it. They must [...]

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