This mini version is so for a few reasons: a dying computer, a dead wiki, and a very tired blogger. Some of these entries are stragglers from the January version, and some are things I found in my daily reads.
Parties interested in hosting the March 2007 version of HUHO, please leave a comment below.
Cuisine:
Frugal Cuisine has some great ideas for cheap food on the fly. The goal is to keep the grocery list to $2-3 a day, yet many of these dishes look delicious.
Make the most of cheap cuts of beef. Or if you’re me, make nachos with those gag-inducing tubes of beef from the freezer section of the grocery store.
Cold and Cough Season:
Amanda offers several tips for minor ailments. I’m fond of the old school whiskey approach.
AradhanaD, who takes a damn fine baby picture, has two grandmother-approved home remedies to soothe your throat when you have a nasty cough.
Household:
Nurse Ratchett has two home remedies for fruit flies and fleas. Seeing my veggie-loving and cat-related lifestyle, both will come in handy this spring.
If you’ve got some land a garden is a good way to save. Start planning now.
Relate:
A somewhat irritating article on living on $12,000 annually, irritating because the author has a great attitude about poverty since she’s “poor by choice.” Her version of poor sounds like my version of college. Still, some good tips on saving money, keeping a good attitude, and managing to create savings while she’s at it. The Nut takes a look at this article as a single mom who can finally breathe but would suffer if that job were lost. And ironically, sadly, she lost her job that very week. At this moment, this is my fear.
I’ve linked it before but it’s worth reading again. Kactus, guestblogging at Women of Color Blog, writes about shame, welfare, and the economy.
And the must-read, the State of the Village Report.
Keeping an herb garden is a good way to get cheap flavors for food, but another hint: A lot of bulk sections at grocery stores sell dried herbs for a lot, lot cheaper than in the spices section. I fill up plastic baggies with as much herbs in a jar and instead of $2 for it, it’s 50 cents.
The fruit fly trap is a version of the kind of trap entomologists use all the time - the premise being that insects are too stupid to find their way out once they get in. Another thing that works really well for trapping all kinds of insects is the sticky trap. Get a sticky surface and color it yellow - the color attracts them and they should be unable to move once they are stuck. I stuck up a couple of yellow sticky traps over a cabbage field for a project and it worked extremely well at capturing flies.
Thanks for taking the time to compile this again Lauren.
If only I could roll back the years… but this picture reminds me - even as a baby I was quite serious!!! Or like my dad says “even back then you used to give us ‘lectures’”…
Nurse Ratchett!!! excellent. (trots off to look).
sorry about the dying computer…