sandhillsis on November 14th, 2009

 
SINthia, my evil twin, and I have a birthday coming up here real soon. Ben, in typical Ben fashion, has surprised me. Well kinda. As much as you can surprise someone you’ve lived with for almost fifteen years. Last year, we were making like bums on one of his days off and went into a flea market to see what we [...]

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sandhillsis on November 14th, 2009

And the winner of the one-year subscription to Consumer Reports magazine is…Marianne. Random.org picked you!
Yay for you!
Thanks for playing, gals.
Sis

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sandhillsis on November 11th, 2009

Some of the best money spending advice I’ve ever got was from a former boss, the dad to the children I was a nanny for. He was a frugal sort of guy. (I wrote a little about them here in the context of a great waffle recipe).
Anyway. They seemed to be great money managers and [...]

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sandhillsis on November 9th, 2009

You want to know another frugal secret? I collect tired once frozen, dried up marigolds (and zinnias.) It’s what I do in the fall.
This year, our eldest, W wasn’t as confused as to why his weird mother does this. Having helped him with his science test on the life cycle of a flower, I knew he understood that the [...]

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