We’re usually in a rush on weekday mornings, and the kidlet gets grumpy if he’s always presented with a bowl of cold cereal. Today I spent 1/2 hour hanging out with the waffle iron, and we now have a big ziploc of waffles in the freezer, ready to throw into the toaster to reheat them.
Waffles [...]
I blogged about the Cheap Vegetable Gardener’s LED grow box over at Make a while back. He has a great blog, full of lots of good practical garden info - he recently posted about this DIY worm farm made from an old bathtub, really a nice setup.
I love good food, and I like to cook, but sometimes I get really busy and suddenly it’s dinnertime and the kid is hungry and I got nothin’ - so we do what everyone does and order pizza. We like the good stuff, no Pizza Hut for us, and we tip the delivery guy pretty [...]
Our friends Lenore and Windell of Evil Mad Scientist are always coming up with projects that involve more creativity than cash. One of my favorites is this cardboard chaise lounge for cats, modeled here by the adorable Harley.
We’ve added a new map to the Atlas - let us know where you are!
I have a small city yard, but I grow some of my own food - I have raspberries, a nice old Italian plum tree, a filbert hedge. Last year I had a great crop of green beans. I’m working on converting more of my yard into veggie gardening space; I’ll be blogging about my progress [...]
One of the points on our Genteel Recessionista Atlas Salvage map (look! link over there on the right!) is for the Seattle RE Store. The RE Store buys and sells salvage - they’re a non-profit, so you can get tax receipts for your donations, or get in-store credit. They’re great about helping you find what you [...]
The most excellent Stumptown Coffee Roasters (all Seattle/Portland locations) is offering free cups of “Hey Recession, FU” coffee every Monday morning between 9 and 10am. Their generous offer ends April 13th.
Really good coffee is another luxury I wouldn’t want to do without, but it can be expensive. One way to cut costs is to buy green beans in bulk and roast your own. John Edgar Park, MAKE magazine and blog contributor, Make:Television host, and Disney animation character rigger (and dad! and who knows *what* else he [...]
