I’m a big Costco fan. I’m pretty sure that I save money going there. And frankly, who doesn’t love buying 200 rolls of toilet paper at a pop so you don’t have to think about it for a couple of months? I tend to hit Costco every 6-8 weeks and when I go, I stock up. This is where you… Read more »
Check out the before and after shot for my Sunday project: a dress up wardrobe for the girls! I decided that we needed a new strategy for organizing dress up clothes since the toss-everything-in-the-box concept was a failure. I spotted this project on Pinterest and in my sleep-deprived mother-of-three-kids-four-and-under kind of way, I decided, “Hey, I could do that.” So… Read more »
Time for everyone’s favorite blog feature: what the Loys are having for dinner this week. Here it is: Thursday: pizza and apples Friday: sausage, spinach and egg casserole and oranges Saturday: black bean veggie burgers and pears Sunday: Thai chicken with rice and broccoli Monday: creamy cheese ravioli spinach bake and carrot sticks Tuesday: spaghetti and meatballs, oranges Wednesday: leftovers… Read more »
Three little kids, painful surgery and a longish recovery and the holidays pretty much decimated my workout schedule, which was admittedly anemic to begin with. But like so many other Americans, I used the New Year as an excuse to jump start my work out routine. I’m pretty desperate to start a running habit but I have a confession. I… Read more »
I’m pretty proud of my grocery budget and the fact that our family of 5 consistently eats for less than $400/month. A couple people have asked me how I do it, so I figured I’d start posting a few of my meal plans, tips and tricks. I typically shop at our local Kroger (though this particular store is heinous, but… Read more »
Homemade laundry soap is wonderful if you’re frugal and/or if you have eczema. Compared to about $.14/load for something like All Free and Clear, you can make your own soap for less than $.01/load. And unlike many other so-called easy, frugal solutions, this one rates low for the pain-in-the-ass factor. You need four things to make your own soap: a… Read more »
Dude… it’s PajamasMedia.com. I apologize to my LRT readers for having so little coverage of Hurricane Irene here, while I was blogging up a storm (pun intended) over at my Pajamas Media site, Weather Nerd. Ideally, I would have done more partial cross-posting — understandably, PJM doesn’t let me do full cross-posts, since they pay me for exclusive content, but… Read more »
…I’ve just had no time to blog for the last week-and-a-half. My evening free time is largely taken up holding a baby, and, well, it’s hard to type while you’re doing that. But hey, at least nothing newsworthy/blogworthy has happened during that time, like, oh I don’t know: • Michelle Bachmann wins the Iowa Straw Poll; • Generic Republican drops… Read more »
Some photos from my weekend in Beaver Creek: That last one was an unintentional snapshot as I moving the phone into or out of my pocket. I think it turned into a rather cool abstract photo. More photos here.
Sorry for the lack of posts. I’ve been a little busy, as you might imagine, what with a newborn, a 2-year-old and a 3 1/2-year-old at home. I’m still tweeting occasionally, but have just had no time for blogging. I’ll try to post something substantive about some topic or other at some point. 🙂 But for now, here are my… Read more »