The Damsel in Dis Dress
Posted in thrifty on Nov 4th, 2009
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 Nov 1st, 2009
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 Oct 24th, 2009
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 [...]
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 Aug 17th, 2009
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 Jul 31st, 2009
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 Jul 24th, 2009
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 [...]
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 [...]
Some things are better the newfangled way. For example, flush toilets. But some things are better the old-fashioned way. The Damsel is here to tell you that after using up many a Costco bag of Krusteaz pancake mix, she has seen the light. Don’t misunderstand. The pancake mix-type pancake is not “awful.” Those pancakes are [...]
Posted in thrifty on Jun 26th, 2009
A month ago, the Damsel made peppermint oil and put it in a dark cupboard for the specified time. The Damsel hates waiting, but the time has come. Click here for the original post. The Damsel was excited.. She’s not the kind of girl who opens presents early. So this morning she anxiously looked to [...]
