I am not, for better or worse, a born entrepreneur. Or even an entrepreneuse. Which is why I want to talk about the fact that lately I have been craving for someone to open a shop that does not, so far as I am aware, exist, namely, a very carefully curated and assembled shop for [...]
Back to the housekeeping posts. I know, I know, but this morning was the time I had this week to do my own housekeeping. And yes, I got it all done, except for the laundry, by 10 am, so I figure I’m more or less qualified to run my mouth about how to get it [...]
Perhaps the most immediately useful thing I ever learned about household cleaning is that messes are of two basic types. One is the kind you can reasonably let sit until a convenient time. The other is the kind you really do need to clean up now. This is not about decor, or even about organization. [...]
A few more items on yesterday’s theme occurred to me last night, as I was falling asleep, and so now that I am not asleep I present them to you thus. The Basic Methods of Cleaning Things: There are really only so many ways you can remove dirt from things. In rough outline, they are [...]
It occurs to me that there are some things about housework that I was taught as a wee child, and which I consider pretty well foundational to making housework go easily and successfully, that it is just possible not everyone knows. So I thought I would share. Clean from top to bottom. Gravity works. Take [...]
Since someone emailed to ask, here’s the approximate frequency with which I do basic household maintenance chores. Daily Wash all dishes & cookware and/or put into dishwasher. I do not go to bed with dirty dishes in the sink. Period. It’s unsanitary and, moreover, there are few things I find as repulsive as having to [...]
Despite my flagrant, unrepentant domesticity, I rarely think of myself as a “good housekeeper.” Households don’t hold still. A household is basically a container in which you keep your personal allotment of entropy, and as a result there are never not things that you could usefully be doing. For some reason, my brain is [...]
For reasons that don’t bear explaining at this juncture, I just moved my office. Not far, mind you, just to a different room in the house. But every move requires, well, actually moving things and actually moving things requires picking each individual article up, moving it, and figuring out where they’re going to go again [...]
A couple of days ago, lamenting the lack of freezer space, it occurred to me that if you haven’t got any freezer space, it might just could possibly be that you have too much uneaten stuff in your freezer. So, while I rolled out graham cracker dough, I had the Belovedary root through the freezer [...]
I’m dining alone tonight, my Belovedary down at Camden Yards watching the Orioles lose. It’s a nice night for it. Dining alone can be a challenge. Even I sometimes get tempted not to bother cooking if it’s just me, especially when I am, as I am tonight, working late on a deadline. I try, though, [...]
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