Handywoman Articles
Posted on April 28, 2009 - by Amanda
Gardening
With the economy a bit down and people looking to pinch pennies wherever they can, vegetable gardens are enjoying a day in the sun. It seems that anyone with a bit of space is planting food to help with the grocery bills. With this in mind we offer a few tips to help you avoid [...]
Posted on March 11, 2009 - by Amanda
Organizing The Home Office
Marcus Aurelius once penned, “The secret of all victory lies in the organization of the non-obvious”
Posted on February 1, 2009 - by Amanda
Start Your Week Off Right
We all love having a friend with good taste in books, or movies, or music. Great recommendations combined with a free lending library. Well the world wide web has given us many of those benefits in the form of book, music and movie swap sites. Each of these sites offers a forum for exchanging your [...]
Posted on January 26, 2009 - by Amanda
Homemade Laundry Detergent
We discovered the frugal joy of homemade laundry detergent some time ago. The cost is minimal, the time investment small and the clean laundry, well, clean. We had thought to post about it before but waited until we made a new batch to reassure ourselves of the simplicity.
Posted on January 25, 2009 - by Amanda
Start Your Week Off Right
It’s getting to be tax season and this is a great time to work on getting your life and finances more organized. It is also time to expand some of your horizons. We have a few suggestions to improve your life this week.
Posted on January 18, 2009 - by Amanda
Start Your Week Off Right
Every week is a new opportunity to start things fresh. New years, new months new weeks and even new days present women with the opportunity to make small changes and renew old commitments.
Posted on January 11, 2009 - by Amanda
How To Kill a Spider
This is another re-posting of an old favorite. (Ed.)
We always hope when there is a spider crawling by that our husband is home and ready to do away with it. Not that we aren’t capable of handling the situation but because, really, we prefer not to. Who wants to squish a squishy little thing?
Posted on January 10, 2009 - by Amanda
How To Handle a Gun
This has been one of our most popular posts so we are re-publishing it for our new audience. (Ed.)
For our first post we thought that it would be great to start with something a lot of women are uncomfortable with. Shooting guns.
Posted on January 8, 2009 - by Amanda
How To Open a Stuck Jar-Lid
It seems, at times, that there is an international jar conspiracy to keep us from accessing the contents. It’s like the jars want to save the lives of the pickles, the jam or the spaghetti sauce. Apart from a new UN resolution here are some solutions.
Posted on October 3, 2008 - by Amanda
How To Get Out Of a Creative Rut
Often we get stuck. Stuck in the mud. Stuck in the doldrums. Stuck in a rut. It is imperative for ones creative drive to figure out what it is that pulls you out of it. What does it take to prime your proverbial pump and get enthusiasm and drive going again. Here is a short list of suggestions.
