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This is why I now tend to send a food basket to people in mourning, rather than flowers. It's usually something like fruit and crackers and cheese--relatively healthy food that can be there in the...

Well, there's a couple of things you can do.

Double the amount of cash you usually carry around.

Call ahead for the track meets to see if there's an entrance fee.

Tell your kids "no" when...

Once a week for me. If I don't have an ingredient, I wait until the next shopping trip, and just make something else. Sometimes I stretch it out to two weeks. But I dislike grocery shopping with a...

Two things I did yesterday.

One, I went food shopping. To carry everything home, I used the two large canvas reusable grocery bags that I bought over 20 years ago. One handle on one of the bags...

Savings bonds or a small cash gift (say $25) are also possibilities.

I gave my nephew the Chronicles of Narnia--the books have a Christian, but not Catholic, slant to them that makes them...

Zoebird, I agree the whole thing--from the target to the finish in a boat in a back yard--is strange.

As for what law enforcement was thinking? Well, they had a picture of suspect #2 leaving what...

I had a double major in English and Communications, with a minor in Economics. The Economics hasn't helped me get a job, ever. The English, surprisingly, has helped me get jobs as an editor and...

I read somewhere that you should budget one month's mortgage payment for home improvement projects every year. (Or one month's rent if you're a renter.) When I owned my own house, I budgeted one...

Well, about the explosives--all the police knew was that explosives had been thrown at them during the chase. It was a logical assumption that the second suspect might have more. A reasonable...

Zoebird, based on what family and friends living in Boston have said, and my own opinions, most people just wanted the suspects caught and taken off the streets. Once the manhunt started, and people...

To me, those pictures of Boston do not look like a "police state." They look like a state of emergency. They look like similar pictures taken during or after a hurricane or blizzard (minus the snow)...

This thread has been enlightening. Since about 1989, I've had free curbside recycling, or at least curbside recycling wrapped into the garbage disposal fee. I've lived in rural Connecticut, urban...

befree, it might seem like overkill, but I have to say that as a single woman living alone, the presence of a man I did not recognize in my apartment lobby at an odd hour would probably have meant...

My town seems to have a handle on recycling. I guess I'm spoiled--I hadn't realized it was so bad in other areas.

We have to buy special city trash bags. I think it's $15 for ten 15 gallon bags,...

I live in a quiet little New England town. It's been described as "quaint."

On one of the nicest streets, in a lovely old Victorian house, the police found a meth lab.

One town over is the...

Eat more take-out?

On a more serious note, if your DH wants more variety and doesn't like your sensible plan of making a big batch of something and then eating it for a few days, then I think he...

If you decide to go with a larger complex, do check out the various apartment rating sites on the interwebs. Here's one: http://www.apartmentratings.com/ But Google "apartment rating sites" or...

No, Domestic Goddess, you have that wrong. You can buy the boxed mac & cheese and the hot dogs. DSIL (what exactly does that D stand for anyway?) can make it and add in the hot dog himself.

Or,...

Another consideration is large complex vs. small, usually privately owned rental. The large complexes tend to have a lot of nice amenities--pools, even gyms, party rooms you can rent, parking, some...

No problem. I was surprised at the differences in prices between the US and the UK. We simply don't have food that cheap.



These prices simply don't exist in my area. I'm in New England, which...

I tend to move a lot, so I've rented most of my adult life.

In many ways, you do the same research as you would in buying a house--you look at the neighborhood, the public transportation, the...

Let's see. I have a turntable and albums. Also a cassette deck with two tape players. I run the sound from the lovely HD flat screen tv through the 30 year old stereo system. No surround sound for...

Amaranth, can you explain the difference between my buying a large package of something and separating it into, say, the dollar's worth that I'd eat for the 5 days, and getting together with someone...

I think it's a know your audience sort of thing.

Friends of mine paid off their mortgage and had an old-fashioned "mortgage burning" party to celebrate. But the outcome was that several friends...

I can only speak to Netflix--they are getting better and better about including closed captioning on most of their streaming shows/movies. I've watched them on my desktop computer and not had any...