I started this website in September of 2006 in order to share some of the little things I’d been enjoying in my own life, from products to recipes to household tips. It’s been a great pleasure documenting this stuff — and hearing your own recommendations and ideas in return — but the time has come […]

Normally when I give out advice, what I’m really saying is not “This worked for me so it will work for you too” but rather “This worked for me and who knows? maybe it will work for you too.” But here is some stronger-than-usual advice for all of you who are not yet contractually […]

Pardon me, internet old timers, I need to talk to the internet younguns for a minute. This is in re mirror self-portraits.
Here is the tricky thing to remember when taking a photo of yourself in the mirror: look at the reflection of the camera lens, not at the reflection of your own eyes. […]

If you subscribe to Netflix, you’re familiar with the rectangle of paper you remove from each envelope to turn it from a “receive” envelope to a “send back” envelope. You can recycle that rectangle. Or, of course, you can make a swan out of it. Or a heart. Or a box. […]

Doing laundry is okay, as chores go, until the putting-away part. Hate that. In some bedrooms, I can fold the laundry right into the drawers, but other bedrooms I have to fold it into piles onto the bed and then transfer it to the drawers.
One way I have made the piles-on-the-bed way a […]