The diapers we use are the Target brand ones. They’re $13.69 for the big box (that’s 104-count for size 3, 92-count for size 4, 80-count for size 5), which in our area is a $5-10 per-large-box savings over the brand name ones. With the twins especially, that added up.
We don’t use them at […]

I like separate shampoo/conditioner WAY better than the 2-in-1 kinds, but sometimes a 2-in-1 is worth it for speed. After trying just about every single one available at Target, I found one I liked well enough to buy repeatedly (I’m on my fourth bottle of it): Herbal Essences Hello Hydration.
It smells really good […]

I’ve been seeing the Ped Egg at local drugstores for quite a while, and each time I think, gross. I mean, I like prettifying my feet as much as the next toenail-polish-loving gal, but there’s just something about a footcare product that looks like a CHEESE GRATER. Plus, the word “egg”. I’m sorry. It’s gross. […]

I’ve tried a couple of different whitening toothpastes: one by Rembrandt and one called something about pearls, I forget. Neither of them made any noticeable difference in my teeth, so I concluded that dentist-office whitening was probably the only thing that worked, and I gave up.
Then I made a mistake: instead of […]

One of the useful pieces of swag I took home from BlogHer last weekend was about a thousand individually wrapped “freshening teeth cleaners” from the fine people at Kimberly-Clark. The Dentaburst is a weird little cloth-feeling whatsit you slip onto your finger and use to rub your teeth, and it actually works really well. It’s […]