Guest Blogger Susan

How I Got a New Food Processor for Free

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My new food processor

I dropped my food processor on a tile floor. The housing cracked but it still worked. The fact that it still worked may or may not be a result of some soldering that happened a couple of years back when I dropped it the first time. When I say worked, I mean whirred for a [...]

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Finding Inner Peace in Uncharted Waters

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sailboat

A friend of mine put his house and business up for sale.   He has purchased a sailboat and is going to spend a few years sailing the globe.  For real.

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Cash Diet Check-In

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Cash Diet Check-In

Oh, readers. I have not been a good role model. Not at all. Putting on myself on a cash diet was going great in October and November. Then there was a little holiday called Black Friday. And one called Christmas. And another called five family birthdays in one week. I fell off the cash-only wagon [...]

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Hiding In My Metaphorical Closet

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Closet door

My house is a ranch style home with a full basement. To get from the first floor to the basement there is a set of wooden steps under which a handy previous owner built a closet. It was a perfect place to keep the cardboard boxes I might need someday.   And, as the saying goes, [...]

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Find New Recipes with Gojee

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Gojee

I found a free app that has proven to be interesting and helpful.  It’s is called Gojee and it acts as a giant recipe database. Unlike other recipe databases where searches are conducted by the name of a dish, this app search by ingredients the user might have on hand.  It also allows searchers to [...]

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Starting a Cash Diet

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starting a cash diet

In the last 12 months I have made some major purchases.  I bought a new snow blower, a much newer car, a new couch, finished the fence around my back yard and a reader board sign for the farm.  All of them were necessary purchases, expect for the couch.  The couch was just as too [...]

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Getting It Done: Exercising Fire Safety

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Fire Safety

The following post is part of our year-long Get It Done series where we tackle things we often put off. Today, Guest Blogger Susan tackles fire safety. When I was in the sixth grade our barn burned.  That may not sound like much if you are picturing a barn the size of a garden shed.  [...]

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Get It Done: Getting Rid of Creeping Charlie

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Creeping Charlie

Last spring, I noticed some weird weeds growing at the edge of my yard.  I ignored them.  This is my go-to strategy for most problems.  When I found these strange weeds had worked their way across the whole back yard in two months and where working on invading my flowers, I knew I had to [...]

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How to Fix a Slamming Screen Door

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This unscheduled “Get it done” post is brought to you by my local hardware store, my happy neighbors and a Phillips screwdriver. Does it ever happen that you are doing a little web surfing during the commercials of your favorite TV show and SPLAT! You end up right in the middle of a bunch of [...]

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