Thank You Notes and Dollar Stores

business tips
One of the things I've been striving to do is to send thank you notes to Mr. A's customers.  I try to watch for them on clearance at the store, and as long as they are blank inside I'll buy just about any design.  Well, within reason. I can't buy anything too feminine looking for a man to send out as a thank you to customers. 🙂 I haven't found any on clearance lately, and set out looking on the… Read the rest

June 19 Garden Harvest

gardening
11 Lavender Touch Eggplant 2#12oz 3 Scalloped Squash plus four unpollinated baby squash 1#11oz 7 Pickling cukes 1#8oz 2 regular cukes 12 oz 3 Tomatoes 9 oz 4 zucchini squash 3#1.4oz 1 Yellow Crookneck squash 4.4oz 14 Raveena Eggplant 1#9oz For breakfast I cut up two eggplants I had from last weekend's harvest, a small crookneck squash, 3 tomatoes (1 leftover from slicing last night for hamburgers, two with ugly scars that were perfectly delicious, even though ugly) and steamed… Read the rest
Homemade Laundry Soap

Fels Naptha – Where To Buy It

Reviews
// // It seems like Fels Naptha has been around forever. It is currently manufactured by Dial Corporation but was developed in the late 1800s by Joseph Fels who lived in Philadelphia.  Mr. Fels created Fels Naptha originally to treat contact dermatitis for exposure to poison ivy or poison oak.   That leads me to wonder… since Fels Naptha soap works by breaking up the oils, would work for exposure to handling jalapeno peppers? Did you ever slice and remove the… Read the rest

My “New” Bedding

saving money
The Accountability Family recently went to one of the small towns near where we live. Mr. A has a client that just bought a fixer-upper home for $40,000.  I went along with my camera to take photos of the place. We needed to kill a little bit of time, so we stopped at Savers just to have a look around.  Their prices are high at this particular one, I prefer to shop the Savers in the big city since they… Read the rest