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Make It Or Buy It: DIY Stainless Steel Refrigerator Cleaner

Welcome back to Make It or Buy It! Up today: DIY stainless steel refrigerator cleaner vs Endust. Because a stainless steel fridge is beautiful, but it is also a fingerprint magnet extraordinaire... It's not particularly easy to take photos of a reflective surface in a kitchen with poor lighting and a lot of glare, but …

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Make It or Buy It? Salad Dressing -- Plus an Avocado Vinaigrette Recipe

Welcome back to Make It or Buy It! Up today: Salad dressing. I'm trying to eat less sugar in the New Year (more on that later...), so have been starting to pay more attention to the crazy amount of added sugars in processed foods. I don't have a lot of salad dressing in my house …

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Five Tips for Pantry Organization in the New Year

Mr. 9 helped me clean out a pantry yesterday -- and by pantry, I mean "section of a closet that's not near the kitchen but I claimed some time ago for food," and by helped, I mean "helped see if this still tastes good." Let's just say that the layout of my home poses a few storage... …

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Wrap Your Gifts... With stuff you have around the house!

Can I just confess something to you guys? I. Hate. Buying. Wrapping. Paper! Seriously. Hate it! I hate paying for something that will be ripped off and tossed away in 30 seconds. I hate trying to find patterns that work on both smaller and larger gifts. I hate trying to find gift wrap that will …

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How to Save half an Avocado -- Plus Quick not-Guac!

Don't you love all the sales we've been seeing on avocados lately? There's nothing worse than a wasted avocado though, and it's so sad when you want to save half of a cut avocado for later but find that it's turned brown and unappetizing by the next day. So: Here's how to save half an …

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