The Damsel in Dis Dress
Posted in Uncategorized, thrifty on Monday, December 7th, 2009 10:04 pm GMT -6
Does anyone remember the olden days, when people used to pop corn WITHOUT a microwave? Why would you want to do such a thing? You mean besides avoiding the unnamed chemicals and nasty whatnots that are in microwave popcorn? “Homemade” popcorn actually does taste better, plus, it’s something that would be nice to know in [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, cooking, thrifty on Saturday, November 28th, 2009 02:58 pm GMT -6
One of the most old-school things you can do after Thanksgiving is make soup out of the turkey carcass. Please forgive the lack of photos to begin with. The Damsel hates, hates, HATES what she must do to start this, and she couldn’t bring herself to photograph it, either. She sternly reminded herself how delicious [...]
Posted in thrifty on Wednesday, November 4th, 2009 02:55 pm GMT -6
The Damsel loves cleaning wipes, especially for those oogie jobs. It’s always going to be cheaper and greener to use a cloth that can be washed and reused, but sometimes you don’t wanna. Cleaning wipes have become hugely popular, and some people keep a container of them in every room. They’re pretty nice for a [...]
Posted in thrifty on Sunday, November 1st, 2009 01:58 pm GMT -6
The Damsel has thrown away many a pumpkin seed in her life. Often, after carving a jack-o-lantern, she’s faced with the pile of goobery pumpkin guts, and the seeds make her feel guilty. Wasting things, even pumpkin seeds, just feels wrong. But touching goobery stuff feels very, very wrong too, so most of the time [...]
Posted in thrifty on Saturday, October 24th, 2009 09:11 pm GMT -6
The “well, sorta” is because this is how to make fakey maple syrup. The way you do it if you don’t have a maple tree handy. The Damsel doesn’t want to create a false sense of anticipation. This method creates a very passable pancake syrup you’d be glad to have if it happened to be [...]
Posted in cooking, thrifty on Tuesday, September 29th, 2009 03:47 pm GMT -6
The Damsel wonders what percentage of people prefer Ranch dressing over other types. She thinks it might be 99%, and she likes it quite a lot herself, even though she hates to be a lemming. The Damsel just conducted a scientific poll, which consisted of asking her #3 sprog, who is a waitress, what percentage [...]
Posted in thrifty on Monday, August 17th, 2009 05:58 pm GMT -6
For today’s lesson, we will venture to the Knight in Shining Armor’s workshop, where he loves to hang out when he’s in between dragon slayings. The Knight says that rusty tools are bad. If not taken care of, they’ll just keep rusting. Rust is more than just nasty looking red stuff. It actually eats away [...]
Posted in preserving, thrifty on Friday, July 31st, 2009 10:10 am GMT -6
Y’all know about this, right? “This” being putting whole bananas in the freezer? Sometimes the Damsel is enticed by banana displays at the grocery store. They look so perfectly perfect, and the Damsel buys them for her sprog. Who sometimes eat them. And sometimes the bananas get looking, well, less pristine. And no matter how [...]
Posted in thrifty on Friday, July 24th, 2009 04:13 pm GMT -6
Sometimes tragedy occurs and vegetables lose their crispness. This carrot was pulled rudely from the ground and left on a hot patio, and well, it’s not what it once was. A bit droopy. Carrots will do that, especially if they still have their green tops. The Damsel believes it has something to do with the [...]
Posted in clothing, thrifty on Wednesday, July 15th, 2009 06:21 pm GMT -6
Here are two ways for patching jeans when the objective is “cute” rather than “wow, you can hardly tell.” The first is a type of applique, which is a fancy French word for “sewing a piece of material on top of another.” You can put a patch on just for decoration, or to actually cover [...]
