I love Halloween, but my DD wants to be a princess of some sort (AGAIN...*sigh*) and already has 2 or 3 princess costumes plus a couple of really over-the-top ballet tutu outfits, so I think she's set. As for me, a Witch again, because I have a choice of black stretchy velvet dress or drapey Goodwill black graduation gown, plus either a ...

This is a tough one. When there is almost no manufacturing left in the USA, and the vast majority of our GNP is from the service sector (haha, if you want to work in the US, it's either restaurants/fast food, or healthcare.... anyone else see the irony?) so basically, trying to get a toy made in the USA limits you to spending big bucks on ...

"I work 40 hours a week outside of the home and take on just about all of the responsibilities at home when it comes to cooking meals, grocery shopping, keeping the house clean and organized and most of the "childcare". It's really difficult, both physically and mentally. " Julie, I feel for you. I always felt when I was ...

Housewife here too. And I don't bake my own bread anymore despite being very good at it and loving to do it. Between my kids' food allergies and my insulin resistance-prediabetes, I would have to take such teensy portions of any bread I did bake, and I love bread, and homemade fresh bread is a cruel form of torture to smell and not indulge ...

I will chime in on the wax issue, although this doesn't really apply to polyurethane finished floors, only to fine wood furniture and antiques. Everything I have read on restoration and preservation of antique and fine wood furniture says that real, high-quality furniture wax (unfortunately, the harder it is to apply, the better!) is the only ...

yes! blossom-end rot affects cukes and zucchini and summer squash when it's too wet too long; tomatoes succumb to molds and the dreaded verticillum wilt, and disease can run rampant when you have so much chilly wet weather and not enough sun. We have had two weeks nearly of unseasonably chilly rainy weather here in Maine and I am one of the ...

The Odo-Ban someone mentioned will get ANY smell out, and smells nice too, but I will mention that it is a powerful hospital disinfectant and kills viruses, molds, and bacteria. That could be good or bad depending on your viewpoint. Her clothes will smell great and be disinfected, but there is also the possibility of that being toxic. It is ...

I never could stand the taste of Bisquick; and anything made with it, tastes like it. Bleah! So needless to say, I don't use it. I may also be the only woman who thinks adding the salt and baking powder myself at the time of baking is not really any trouble, so I never saw the point of "baking mixes" anyway, because you still have to ...

About the sugar content in coconut milk... this is milk, not "coconut cream" right? Because Coconut Cream is a sweetened product that is high in sugar. The Thai Kitchen brand of coconut milk (canned, but you can't get frozen hereabouts) says it has 2 grams of sugar per 2 oz. serving, with 7 servings per can, which means just about 3 ...

People often wonder if "natural" sugars are better than "processed" sugars, to which I must reply: no... on a molecular level, although the structure of fructose, sucrose, maltose, dextrose, glucose, etc are each distinct, they are all sugars, and while we don't metabolize them all the same way (fructose and glucose are ...