This is a sponsored post written by me on behalf of Scott Tube- Free. All opinions are 100% mine. You learn something new every day! And recently I learned that the average U.S. household uses around 150 toilet paper tubes per year, which is something I honestly never really thought about before -- did you? But …

Welcome to the June 26, 2016 edition of Sunday Scratchups: Your weekly recipe from scratch around grocery sales and affordable ingredients. This week we're making a light yet filling Summer Spinach Penne Pasta recipe using summer veggies and leftover chicken, to take advantage of our great seasonal spinach and tomato prices (or garden bounty!). Not gluten …

Yesterday's Father's Day extravaganza interrupted the normal meal planning post -- and people in this house are traveling hither and yon, visiting family, going on business trips, and/or attending evening events just about every day this week, interrupting the normal meal planning. So I won't lie to you: It's likely to be a lot of …

Welcome to the June 19, 2016 edition of Sunday Scratchups: Your weekly recipe from scratch around grocery store sales and affordable ingredients. Up today is a really fun brunch, birthday, or holiday breakfast idea: BACON ROSES. Full disclosure: This is not my original "recipe" idea. I recently ran across How to Make a Bacon Bouquet on Pinterest, …

Keurig DRM getting you down? Exercise your freedom of choice with these tips: Hack your Keurig 2.0 to take any brand of coffee! Today, let's discuss how to Hack your Keurig 2.0! It's been a while since we have talked about the various ways to hack the DRM in Keurig 2.0, so here are your …

Let me preface Game Developer Barbie here with a confession: I was never a girl who really enjoyed playing with Barbies. I had Barbie dolls of course, as a girl-growing-up-in-the-70s. I had Barbies, my brother had LEGOs... and I coveted his toys so. (I also had a white "French Provincial" desk that I put in the corner of my room, turned …