It’s spring (except if you are in the Southern Hemisphere, in which case, it’s fall, but this will probably be useful for you folks too). And you want to work in the garden and go to wherever you store your garden tools (Well, let’s hope they got stored and not left to be covered with [...]
Posts under ‘General’
On Vinegar
(Ha – you thought I was going to go with a photo of bottles of vinegar or something, right? Fooled you. Photo courtesy of Casch52)
Housekeeping:
Vinegar comes from the Old French, “vin aigre”, meaning ’sour wine’. Vinegar has the taste and the pH that it does because of the action of acetal bacteria which turns [...]
Strike While the Iron is Hot
What we’ll be covering over the next several weeks — and what are your ideas?
New and Improved! Now with White Wall Tires and Electric Windows!
In honor of the New Year, Aunt Toby’s one year “blog-iversary”, and the fact that we had to update the software, I asked our super-duper Web Mistress (aka “Queen of the HTML”) to add a new feature to help readers find what they want more readily.
First: If you look at the top of [...]
Kitchen Counter Chemistry or, If You Can Mix Salad Dressing, You Can Make Moisturizer
At this time of year, having a good moisturizer is a good thing; here is how to make several for things you probably already have at home.
Cooking Turkey: Accomplishments and the Tyranny of Lists
How to get things done.
Family-based Healthcare System Reform
This is a photograph of the person who is probably responsible for 90% of her descendants’ deaths over the past 100 years. Our own version of Mrs. O’Leary (minus the cow, the fire and Chicago). This is Elizabeth Briggs-Smith, my mother’s grandmother. For her time, she was prodigious – married at least 3 times that [...]
It’s Curtains For You, Bub..
Another way to freshen up a living space: enhancing curtains.
Taking Personal Responsibility for Breaking the Recession
The connection between people being out of work, the slump in the economy, and job creation.
Loose Ends and Housekeeping
Updates on the chicks, strawberries, et al.
Kitchen Counter Economics is a community where we can share ideas on how to save money, live more sustainably, and gain control over the stuff of daily living for ourselves and our families in the current economic environment. This started as a series of diary postings at the 
