Cast Iron Cookware
For most stove-top cooking, nothing cooks better and more economically than good cast-iron cookware. Anyone trying to save money should have a lot of cast […]
Doug's Methods of Saving Money
For most stove-top cooking, nothing cooks better and more economically than good cast-iron cookware. Anyone trying to save money should have a lot of cast […]
During summer, when the days are the hottest and most humid, you need air-conditioning in your home. But what about when it’s merely warm during the […]
What do you do with coins you get in change from cash purchases? Do you just put them down here or there, letting them accumulate […]
I’ll admit it’s really cool to have a phone that you can use to play games, look at the Internet, watch movies, chat, and … […]
Did you ever notice that it’s not easy to get just a small amount of dish-washing liquid from the bottle it’s sold in? Dish-washing liquid […]
Do you throw away cereal bags, a.k.a dry food inner liners, the bags inside boxes in which foods such as breakfast cereals and crackers are packaged? Those are high-quality […]
Russell Baker cuts his own hair (and if you think a man who cuts his own hair couldn’t look good enough to be seen in […]
If you have memories from before the 2000s, you might remember when “videos” meant “videotapes”, usually in VHS format. (“Betamax” was the other format, but […]
I like a snack after lunch. Snacks from the vending machines cost between $1 and $2 each. So this past weekend at Costco I bought a box of 36 […]
I was really peeved yesterday to find that there were two large containers of yogurt in my refrigerator. This table shows the state they were […]
You go to the toilet for a #2 once a day anyway, so if you’re at work … why not go while you’re there? You […]
More than once I’ve noticed an “empty” shampoo bottle that someone in my house (not I) threw in the trash … and upon closer examination […]
Paying a fee to use an automatic teller machine (ATM) is an outrage. If the fee were something like 25¢ that might be okay. But of […]
Because you don’t have enough money — that’s why! Okay, maybe that statement doesn’t apply to 100% of the people who might read this. But […]
“Pay yourself first.“ Have you ever heard this old — but good — advice? As far as I know, it was popularized by George Samuel Clason […]