WFMW: The Brand Name Edition

Wednesday, 5 September 2007, 13:01 | Category : Works-For-Me Wednesday
Tags :

This week, Works-for-Me Wednesday is a theme edition. What brand names are worth the extra money?
I almost always buy the generic brand or whatever is on sale. I have very little brand loyalty. However, there are some exceptions. Isn’t there always?
The first is milk. I have always been an rBST-free [...]

WFMW: Kitchen Shears

Wednesday, 29 August 2007, 12:36 | Category : Works-For-Me Wednesday
Tags :

I love my kitchen shears! I mean love them. I use them all of the time. In fact, I don’t know if I could live - or at least cook - without them.
I thought everyone felt the same way, but then my sister-in-law heard me raving about the many uses of kitchen [...]

WFMW: Sixty-Minute Rolls

Wednesday, 15 August 2007, 14:16 | Category : Cooking and Recipes, Works-For-Me Wednesday
Tags :

Have you ever planned on making homemade rolls to go with dinner, but you get home late, or some other calamity keeps you from getting the dough made in time?
That happens to me all of the time.
And when we are at the end of our grocery budget, sometimes the rolls are the only good thing [...]

Parenting Advice

Thursday, 2 August 2007, 14:06 | Category : Works-For-Me Wednesday
Tags :

I didn’t do a “Works-for-Me Wednesday” post this week because I forgot that it was a parenting advice theme, so I wasn’t prepared.
Okay, actually, it’s because I am a lousy parent and I have no advice. You caught me.
Be sure to head over to Rocks in My Dryer and check out the WFMW: Parenting [...]

Works For Me: E-Mail Folders

Wednesday, 18 July 2007, 15:33 | Category : Works-For-Me Wednesday
Tags :

My tip, for my first Works For Me Wednesday ever, is about managing e-mail. I always have a bunch of junk in my inbox and it can get pretty overwhelming.
The first thing I do is use the filters available in my e-mail program. Incoming mail that comes from a source I know (such [...]