We’ve down Countdown to Turkey Days in the past. There have been really fun years and really hard years. It doesn’t take a magic eight-ball to predict that this year will be one of the really hard years. For starters, unless you are extremely blessed to live in circumstances where everyone who would be on … Read more
October’s month-long menu was a big success. I fell off a little bit toward the end, but there weren’t any extra trips to the grocery store, and there weren’t any trips to the drive-through, it was more a rearrangement/iron chef situation, so I’ll call it a win. The menu is a guide to saving money, … Read more
This week’s random pest question comes from Twitter: Calling @HeatherSolos and her @HomeEc101 knowledge: How do you get rid of fruit flies? Note: There’s no fruit in the house. Twitter If I had suspected my friend had fruit flies, I would have suggested the following advice for getting rid of fruit flies. (I didn’t) Generally, … Read more
October is wrapping up? I can’t believe it, which has nothing to do with the timey-wimey wibbly wobbly nonsense of 2020 and everything to do with it being hot and humid and not at all fall-like here in the Lowcountry of South Carolina. My favorite local weather nerds have promised that cooler temperatures are on … Read more
I work in email; I know better than to use a subject like the one above. If you see this email at all, it will likely be in your spam folder. Oh well, it gets the point across, and I’m in the kind of mood where I just don’t care. On March 2, 2018, I … Read more
My kids call biscuits and gravy their favorite struggle meal. For me, it’s my favorite I-don’t-have-enough-energy-to-deal-with-anything-meal. All of my teenagers now know how to make the gravy themselves, and I keep a few cans of biscuit dough in the fridge for the nights of no energy or time. One might think during the Great COVID … Read more
Heather says: This is week 42, which is the answer to everything? So it’s totally apropos that we are on a staycation and resting, which is the answer that we need, at least We are now three weeks into the month-long planned menu and it’s going well. While I haven’t made all of the meals, … Read more
Dear Home-Ec101, So, I turned my back for just a few moments, while I had to help a client—remote work is such a blessing and a curse—and in that time my two-year-old took the full tube of diaper cream and smeared it all over one of the couches. Now, I’m about to get rid of … Read more
After 2013 some people might find it surprising that my taste in podcasts can run quite dark, but it is what it is. I’ve listened to My Favorite Murder for a few years now. If you can’t stand salty language, please give it a hard pass and remember, to each their own, no judgment. One … Read more
Heather says, Dear Home-Ec 101, How does hand sanitizer or rubbing alcohol kill COVID-19 and if they do such a good job, why do we need to spend so long washing our hands all the time? It’s been eight months of this coronavirus nonsense, my hands are raw, I’m tired of this. I just want … Read more