Uses for Used Tea Bags
If you’re a big tea drinker, you may go through several bags of tea each day. While some prefer loose leaf tea (tea purists do, typically bagged tea is inferior quality), nothing beats the convenience...
View ArticleHow To Have Naturally Shiny Hair
There are all kinds of products that crowd drugstore shelves claiming to make your hair shiny. Many of them rely on silicones. While they’re probably not terribly harmful for your hair, silicone has...
View ArticleYour Mother Was Right: Traditional Beauty Tips
Your Mother Was Right: Traditional Beauty Tips that Pass the Test of Time Everyone hates being told “I told you so”, and most women also hate thinking their mother was right. However, on stepping upon...
View ArticleAct Natural Hair Color Review
I’ve talked about natural hair color on the blog before so I was eager to try this product. It’s from a company called ACT (Advanced Cosmetic Technologies). Their website is http://www.ActNaturals.com....
View ArticleGiveaway: Whole Foods Body Care
**At the end of this post you can enter to win a body care set from Whole Foods** Whole Foods Market is running a 3-part podcast series promoting the “Premium Body Care” product line they have created....
View ArticleSimple, Homemade Skin Care
I’ve had so much fun making my own skin care and cleaning products lately. Does that make me a big dork? Maybe. But I don’t care! It’s fun to be a kitchen alchemist, and to save money on these items....
View ArticleHow To Build a Cute Maternity Wardrobe Frugally
Pregnancy lasts around 40 weeks. During that time you’ll endure various physical complaints, from minor to major, and other physical and emotional changes that are mostly out of your control. I don’t...
View ArticleEven a Minimalist Satisficer Needs Clothing Sometimes
If you’ve read The Happiness Project0, you’re familiar with the terms “maximizer versus satisficer“. A satisficer (that’s me) has high standards but once she’s found something that works, she is...
View ArticleHow To Make Your Own Body Scrubs
Dry winter weather is notoriously harsh on your skin. Exfoliating body scrubs can surely help slough off the old and expose the healthier skin underneath, but they can also be expensive. There are also...
View ArticleWhat’s saving my life right now
Modern Mrs. Darcy recently posted about “what’s saving my life right now” during the second half of the long, dreary winter. In her words: “To beat back the gloom, today we’re sharing the things—big or...
View ArticleThe truth about low maintenance
Back in October, the Minimalists posted this bit of wisdom for the internets on their Instagram account: Avoid Sale Price (Fool’s Price). It made me think. In the last year or so, I’ve come to the...
View ArticleFree Mrs. Meyer’s Cleaning Kit
ePantry is back with another amazing deal. This time they’re offering FREE: a nifty Carabella cleaning caddy with some of your favorite Mrs. Meyer’s cleaning products, walnut scrub sponges and a Grove...
View ArticleHow to help your StitchFix stylist nail it
In a recent post where I talked about kicking low-maintenance to the curb, I mentioned that I restarted my Stitch Fix subscription. Stitch Fix is a wonderful service for people who, like me, hate...
View ArticleRandom
Printemps I love this time of year. At this moment I’m sitting on my deck sipping coffee while the kids play around me. And my coffee isn’t getting instantly cold! We had supper out here last night,...
View ArticleShort (grey) hair. Don’t care.
Or, why I stopped coloring my hair. Months ago, I decided I would eventually chop my hair off and at that time, stop covering the grey. I started coloring my hair almost 15 years ago, in my 20’s,...
View ArticleHacking my lipstick
Every mom of small children has had the experience of opening a lipstick tube, only to find that its contents have been smashed into the hastily slammed-on cap. A certain 4-year-old has ruined two of...
View ArticleThings I Learned in 2015
I LOVE reading “year in review” posts. And I HATE writing them. I immediately get performance anxiety. How can I wrap up a year’s worth of growth (hopefully, there was growth)? What if I forget...
View ArticleBeing chic on a budget
If you’ve read here for more than a few minutes, you know I have a fascination with French eating, parenting, and tout choses les femmes francaises. So I’ve been enjoying this series of posts on Fiona...
View ArticleFalling for coconut oil again
It’s rare that I do product reviews here, but occasionally I find something that impresses me and wish to pass it along. Skinny & Co sent me a sample box of their products and I am falling in love...
View ArticleMy Minimalist Wardrobe
A reader emailed me recently and reminded me that I said I was going to write about having a minimalist wardrobe. I’ll admit now that the reason I have avoided this post is not because I don’t want to...
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