Miser Mom

 Many years ago, one of my colleagues was awarded an endowed chair. This is a big deal for professor. The ordinary course of possible promot...

Did I mention we're down-sizing further?  We are.   This time we're down-sizing a LOT.  The last time we moved, it looked on paper l...

We moved into this row house only a half-dozen years ago. We were looking for a place in the city which would accommodate our bike habit, kn...

A while back, I curbed-picked two couch cushions -- the big kind, not that you sit on, but that you lean against at the back of the couch.  ...

I was just touching up the living room walls, and the paint can--now half-empty--was starting to get a little crusty and rusted, the way pai...

My husband and I spent a lot  of time in the car lately, driving back and forth to see some of our distant children and killing lots and lot...

Amassing canning jars has been a lot like building up monetary savings, for me, at least. When I first started canning, it felt like there w...