Laundry is one of those necessary evils in life. Few people actually enjoy doing laundry, or putting away the laundry after it’s been washed, but it’s something we all have to do. One way to feel better about doing the laundry is to get a good deal on laundry supplies…
Have you ever had a craving for Girl Scout cookies when it wasn’t Girl Scout cookie season? If your supply of Thin Mints has run out, you might turn to Keebler Grasshopper cookies, which are sold at most major grocery stores. Or you might run out to your local dollar…
Boxed macaroni and cheese is one of the ultimate convenience foods. It’s fairly inexpensive and shelf stable, so it lasts a long time in the pantry, and it’s easy to make even if you don’t have much in the way of cooking skills. There are usually two kinds of boxed…
This post contains affiliate links. In my opinion, regular corn flakes aren’t a very good breakfast cereal. They’re not, at least not without some serious doctoring. Even then, they have a bland taste and they get soggy too quickly. Like Rice Krispies are better in making treats than as a…
When an old secondhand clock on my living room wall stopped working recently, I decided to see what wall clock options some of my local dollar stores had. I didn’t have the highest hopes of finding something suitable for a living room. I thought I’d mostly find cheap-looking plastic wall…
While I prefer to make homemade chili, there are times when I appreciate the convenience of chili in a can. Canned chili is good for camping trips or for keeping in an emergency food stash. It also works well if I want to make chili cheese dogs and need a…
I work in education, and even in the technology age, students still need pencils. Some standardized tests are — at least at the time of this post — still pencil and paper, and I still give assignments that require them to use something other than a Chromebook, phone, or tablet….
Chicken soup is an old soup, maybe as old as since humans learned how to boil water. As a practical matter, cooking meat in water can stretch out the use of that meat, from a pound of poultry that might feed a few people to a vat of soup that…
Soup is often referred to as a comfort food. When winter sets in, going outdoors becomes less common, and people like to seek out things to make being inside more inviting. Hot foods, which are less common in the hot summer months, suddenly have their moment. Canned soups have been…
This post contains affiliate links. I work in a job (education) where having pencils on hand is a must. Even in a world where most things are done through technology, there are some things that are either best on paper or have to be done on paper. Unfortunately, the people…
