First, let me make it clear I have nothing against people who choose to eat vegan. What other people want to eat is none of my business. I just wish the rest of the world would return the favor. Let me check my news article sites. Hmm. Why I should be a vegan. Why the […]
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Enough with the Vegan Stuff
Posted in Home Poor Home, Random Thoughts, tagged Diet, Vegan on November 5, 2019 | Leave a Comment »
Plants Are More Than Pretty
Posted in Home Poor Home, tagged Edible Landscaping, Food, Gardening on October 18, 2019 | Leave a Comment »
Today’s post is about a special interest of mine – edible landscaping. This is the philosophy that everything you plant should produce food. Want to plant a tree? Make it a fruit or nut tree. There are many shrubs that produce berries. There are loads of very pretty flowers that are edible. Even if you […]
Universities Aren’t Just For Millennials
Posted in Home Poor Home, tagged Fruit Trees, Gardening, Saving Money on May 5, 2019 | Leave a Comment »
Do you live near a university? Don’t assume that if you are not a student, that they have nothing to offer you.
Spring Cleaning For the Next Year and a Half
Posted in Home Poor Home, tagged Cleaning, Moving on January 31, 2019 | Leave a Comment »
Poor Husband and I have declared war on our house. We have lived here for over twenty-five years, and it shows.
It’s Meat Day!
Posted in Home Poor Home, tagged Freezer Food, Groceries, Meat, Saving Money on November 7, 2018 | Leave a Comment »
Part of my budget-stretching efforts included finding a good butcher shop. A lot of people don’t realize that there are places like the Tampa Steak Company around. Most of their business is wholesale to restaurants, small grocers and catering companies, but they also have a retail counter. I have a medium-sized chest freezer, and with […]
And Boom, It’s Christmas
Posted in Home Poor Home, tagged Christmas, Holidays, Thanksgiving on November 1, 2018 | Leave a Comment »
I suspect that if I made this post a long rant on the ever-lengthening Christmas season at every retail store in America, I would get a lot of nods of agreement. It used to be that Christmas started when Thanksgiving was over. Thanksgiving has been trampled underfoot, and now Halloween is the kickoff point. At […]
It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year…
Posted in Home Poor Home, tagged Halloween, Holidays on October 31, 2018 | Leave a Comment »
Halloween! What, did you think I meant some other holiday? The house is decorated. The candy is ready. … And I’m plague-ridden with a bad cold/flu bug, and so is Poor Rose, my younger daughter. Poor Gail Junior, however, is still hale and hearty, and will delight in passing out the treats. I didn’t have […]
Uber to the Rescue
Posted in Home Poor Home, tagged Earning Money, Lyft, Uber on May 7, 2018 | Leave a Comment »
Yesterday Poor Husband was laid off from his job. Like many, he was victim to a business that follows the ‘move up or move out’ philosophy. If you have been there for a while and you aren’t promoted to management, you get cut. It was no surprise, since many coworkers who had been there as […]
Poor Gail Jr.’s Day of Looting and Pillaging.
Posted in Home Poor Home, tagged Birthday on September 3, 2017 | Leave a Comment »
Oof. Â Sorry for the dry spell, but first my computer went down, then I went down, then I was involved in making some major household changes. Â But here’s a bit of what we’ve been doing. The Poor household is blessed with two daughters, Poor Gail Jr. and Poor Rose. Â Poor Gail Jr., being a […]
A short cookbook review
Posted in Home Poor Home, tagged cookbooks on May 30, 2017 | Leave a Comment »
I love oddball cookbooks. Reprints of eighteenth century housewife guides, recipes from Martha Washington’s kitchen, Shaker cookbooks, I love them. I also enjoy modern cookbooks with an unusual spin. At the library I stumbled across The Unofficial Downton Abby Cookbook. I haven’t watched a lot of the show, but I enjoy its theming. For a […]