Caulking the outsides of windows and doors is one of the best energy investments you can make, but it only works at the time of the year when the temperatures are not too cold.
Posts Tagged ‘family finances’
Making Home Sewing Pay: Choosing the Right Pattern
New sewing series: Making a coat – choosing a pattern
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.
Basic Entrepreneurial Rules Still Apply: Find a Need and Fill It
Small business success stories: it’s still all about ‘find a need and fill it.”
Taking Personal Responsibility for Breaking the Recession
The connection between people being out of work, the slump in the economy, and job creation.
Close – But No Cigar: New Credit Card Legislation Does Not Go Nearly Far Enough
The connection between college students being targeted by banks and credit card companies and the lack of activity in the economy.
Sewing: Make it worth even more
Making home sewing pay off better by using ‘tried and true’ patterns.
Sewing: Worth it…more or less
More on making home sewing pay.
Home Sewing: Is it worth it?
Is home sewing a bargain? Here’s how to decide.
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 
