It is always hard to find a way to make your leftovers delicious. Even if you enjoyed the food so much the night before, those delicious dishes stare you down in the fridge the next day, and you want to make anything – ANYTHING – but leftovers. I’ve come to find that the best way …
I’m sure that if you look in your wallet, you will find a number of loyalty cards to various grocery stores, gas stations, and department stores. You have to keep them all in your wallet because you never know which store you will end up at, and pulling out the right card will probably save …
I was in the supermarket today, going through the cereal aisle when I saw rice krispies and remembered I had a bag of near-stale marshmallows at home. I couldn’t resist a perfect opportunity to make some old school rice krispie treats, so into the cart they went. I got home and took out my measuring cups, …
I have been looking for shelves for our office for a while now. We are in that awkward stage where we don’t want to sink a lot of money in ill-matching, cheap college furniture, but also don’t exactly have the money to go out and buy solid, grown-up furniture for every room. There always seems …
So I bought a whole chicken. A Foster Farms Young Chicken to be exact. Mine weighed 4 pounds, and cost about $3. $3 for an entire chicken! I figured they are cheaper because people are too lazy to cut up a chicken themselves (how hard could it be?), they would rather have the nice chicken …
One of the things I miss the most about living in Vancouver is Slice TV – an almost infinite source of reality tv shows. And one of the things I miss the most about Slice is the show Till Debt Do Us Part hosted by financier Gail Vaz-Oxlade. Basically the show is about couples who are …
A Little History I should probably preface this story by pointing out that I absolutely love personal finance. I love the checks and balances, spreadsheets with my income and expenses, fixed and variable, tweeking the numbers over and over. As much joy as this gives me, and as flexible as Excel is with its summing …