by Ivory Soap | May 14, 2012 | Household, Simple & Frugal
To everything, there is a season, unless you live in the burbs and the seasons are totally obscured by shipments from Mexico and California. Reduces Your To Do List Pioneer homesteaders lived seasonally. ...
by Daisy | Apr 19, 2012 | Body Care, Garden, Household, Plants & Uses
Motherwort (Leonurus cardiaca) is a heavy-hitter in the medicinal plants game. It is used, among other things, for the heart, for anxiety, and for women’s health. You can read more about it here. I planted motherwort seeds last Spring. They germinated and...
by Ivory Soap | Mar 6, 2012 | Household, Simple & Frugal
I wrote a series of organization posts last year when I was having a baby, writing twice a month for the paper, gardening, writing a book, and homeschooling. It was a complicated plan. But this year, life is less complicated. So the plan is less complicated....
by Ivory Soap | Dec 16, 2011 | Cleaning Products, Household
“Surely not!” This is what I thought when I heard TL say that if she wanted her kitchen floor to stay clean she had to get down on it with a scrub brush every week or so. With soap and water? Hot water, even. And the baseboards? Every other month....
by Daisy | Oct 20, 2011 | Body Care, Household
I’ve read many methods for making liquid soap. Most people agree making liquid soap from scratch, that is, from oils and potassium hydroxide, is tricky at best. Reports of solidifying and separating are pretty universal. I tried my hand at it a long time ago,...
by Ivory Soap | May 30, 2011 | Household, Simple & Frugal
photo by epSos.de Being stuck in the bed postpartum with two bouts of double mastitis has forced me to simplify my days even more than I thought possible before. But note, this post is not titled “5 FRUGAL Ways to Simplify Your Days,” so you might have...
