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livingdebI have started a new blog. I am still keeping my current all-purpose blog, but I'm also creating a single-topic blog. I read a lot of personal finance blogs by people trying to get out of debt, so they write more as they learn more and sometimes they even get good ideas from their commenters.
Well, I'm going to try the same thing, only on the topic of maintaining my stuff. Whenever something is failing me, and even sometimes when it isn't and I just see a nice replacement, my first strategy is generally to throw away the old thing and buy a new one. Or better, buy a new one and don't throw away the old thing. Because sometimes the new thing turns out to be even worse than the old thing.
I thought of this when I was brainstorming ways to make money and fantasizing hourly about quitting my job. I'm extremely unlikely to make money from this blog, but I decided I liked the idea of doing it anyway.
Raised in a throw-away society, I haven't learned much about taking care of and customizing my stuff at all. It's kind of sickening just what an ignoramus I am. But I'm going to try to pay attention more to how to keep things going properly and just generally make my stuff work better for me.
Because I have stereotypically female skills, I suspect I'll have way more posts on cooking and textiles than other areas, but that might change, eh?
I've been jealous of people using Blogspot instead of LiveJournal for their journals because they're so pretty. But then I realized I should also check out WordPress. But finally I decided to go with Blogspot. They let you (try to) make money on their free version. Which I'm not even trying now, and won't ever get obnoxious about. But I also have (at least) two friends with Blogspot blogs. I don't know if that will come in handy, but it might. Especially for them--they could tell me about something that annoys them on my blog and then tell me how to fix it.
So it's called Less Buying, More Trying. And I do realize that "Trying" has (at least) two different meanings in this context, and both of them are probably true, so I like it. (One is about me trying more stuff. And one is about the new strategies being more trying than the old strategies with which I'm already familiar.)
Should I mention here when I make a new post there? There are two posts on there now: one about cutting a shower curtain liner in half and one about replacing cordless phone batteries. Oh, were you under the impression that these would be interesting? Or something you could learn from? Sorry about that.
Cake of the Day
This one is so cute:
Here's a different and slightly closer view:
The cute gets even more out of control in a close-up view:
I don't exactly know where the cake is in there. But since it was at a cake show, I'm going to trust that somehow it is a cake.
Well, I'm going to try the same thing, only on the topic of maintaining my stuff. Whenever something is failing me, and even sometimes when it isn't and I just see a nice replacement, my first strategy is generally to throw away the old thing and buy a new one. Or better, buy a new one and don't throw away the old thing. Because sometimes the new thing turns out to be even worse than the old thing.
I thought of this when I was brainstorming ways to make money and fantasizing hourly about quitting my job. I'm extremely unlikely to make money from this blog, but I decided I liked the idea of doing it anyway.
Raised in a throw-away society, I haven't learned much about taking care of and customizing my stuff at all. It's kind of sickening just what an ignoramus I am. But I'm going to try to pay attention more to how to keep things going properly and just generally make my stuff work better for me.
Because I have stereotypically female skills, I suspect I'll have way more posts on cooking and textiles than other areas, but that might change, eh?
I've been jealous of people using Blogspot instead of LiveJournal for their journals because they're so pretty. But then I realized I should also check out WordPress. But finally I decided to go with Blogspot. They let you (try to) make money on their free version. Which I'm not even trying now, and won't ever get obnoxious about. But I also have (at least) two friends with Blogspot blogs. I don't know if that will come in handy, but it might. Especially for them--they could tell me about something that annoys them on my blog and then tell me how to fix it.
So it's called Less Buying, More Trying. And I do realize that "Trying" has (at least) two different meanings in this context, and both of them are probably true, so I like it. (One is about me trying more stuff. And one is about the new strategies being more trying than the old strategies with which I'm already familiar.)
Should I mention here when I make a new post there? There are two posts on there now: one about cutting a shower curtain liner in half and one about replacing cordless phone batteries. Oh, were you under the impression that these would be interesting? Or something you could learn from? Sorry about that.
Cake of the Day
This one is so cute:
Here's a different and slightly closer view:
The cute gets even more out of control in a close-up view:
I don't exactly know where the cake is in there. But since it was at a cake show, I'm going to trust that somehow it is a cake.