Miser Mom

My mom did a great job of teaching me and my sisters useful skills: sewing, carpentry, cooking, plumbing.  Mind you, we did NOT always appre...

I don't need a folding chair -- and in fact, I didn't keep this folding chair. But I fixed it because (a) it was easy for me to do, ...

It started with two small pieces of scrap wood: one, I know, came from my son's broken and then disassembled former bed frame, and the o...

 My daughter invited me to an 80's themed theater event, and said we should dress the part. I was like, what does it mean to dress 80s? ...

Each of these pieces of clothing had been abandoned on the ground somewhere.   I walked past the winter coat pictured on the left and also t...

I've got this song running through my head -- not your usual Christmas song, but a Muppets song.  Apparently, none of my kids nor  my hu...

And here -- because I don't apparently have anything to do -- is a project I've been contemplating a long time, and I finally just g...