Okay, I have a question instead of a suggestion today. How do you, uh, wash your face?
No really, I want to know. Because I’d like to know how to do it without making a giant mess. Unless I’m washing my face in the shower or bath, I always end up leaving water all over […]

When we redid our kitchen last year we decided after much hemming and hawing to put in stainless steel appliances. I was worried that they would look great for all of five seconds before becoming coated in fingerprints, but for once something a salesperson told us ended up to be true: once you’ve polished a […]

The “One Bowl Brownies” recipe on the box of Baker’s unsweetened baking chocolate squares is the brownie recipe I use most often. Here’s their recipe, with my changes in bold:
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4 squares (each square = 1 ounce) unsweetened baking chocolate [I use 5 squares]
3/4 cup (1-1/2 sticks) butter
2 cups sugar
3 eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 cup flour
1 […]

Hello. This is the world’s most awesome baby hat. The end.
Okay, I should probably also say that it’s very, very soft, has a great fit that will last for a long time (my now-toddler started wearing this in the 0-6 month size when he was 4 months old and now my 7-week-old can wear it […]

We have plastic Easter baskets all over our house. We use them as barf buckets. Also as buckets for small toys, and for toys with many pieces.
We use them as “pick-up buckets”: I fill a bucket with the crap I find under the couch, and I hand it to a child to […]