So apparently my postcards are non-machinable and therefore cost an extra 33 cents. But this is definitely a recent development unless people have been getting postage due notices all these years and not telling me. I mean, I did ask when I first started sending them because I thought the thickness might be a problem, but the guy at the Princeton ( Read more... )

(In order to distract myself from Bootsie trauma drama.)(He's doing better, but I think we're both still a bit stressed out.)

So I saw this article bragging about sweatshirts that last ten years, which is not a bad thing per se, but color me supremely unimpressed ( Read more... )

You'd think that of all the days of the year, the one where you might spend some time thinking about how we, as well-fed people, are wasteful of food, would potentially be the one when you spend your evening making PB&J sandwiches for homeless people ( Read more... )

I need someone to Jedi mind-trick me into chucking the unrecylable plastic bottle caps I've been saving "because there must be something crafty I can do with them!"

(Dear Juice Manufacturers, More #5 lids that I can at least recycle via Preserve, please.)

When you're in trouble, you can call DW.

Problem: The elastic in the shelf-bra of my tank top had been getting sorta skanky doing that weird degraded elastic thing that elastic does, but is otherwise totally wearable ( Read more... )

"Oh, but Nicole," you might say, "You are so carefree when it comes to the environment, and you most certainly have not been influenced by mulitple generations of Dobrowolski pack-rattery ( Read more... )