Tag Archives: household durables

$$: Weekend Errands

By Suburban Wife | Published: January 9, 2010
As I pre­dicted yes­ter­day, today was not a no-spend day. Sat­ur­day is a big fam­ily meal plus I’d signed up to make din­ner for some friends who just had a baby so I knew I’d need gro­ceries.  What I didn’t know was that The Daugh­ter would want to accom­pany me on my errands.  When your almost [...]
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$$: Dec 9 — Recycling on the Cheap

By Suburban Wife | Published: December 11, 2008
The Home Depot — $47.94 Our “waste man­age­ment” com­pany recently announced that they were greatly expand­ing the list of recy­clable mate­ri­als they’d col­lect. This, com­bined with the fact that they went “sin­gle stream” a while ago and the fact that they pick up recy­clables only every other week means that our old recy­cling tub just [...]
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Home Economics Ingenuity 101 — Re-purposing

By Suburban Wife | Published: December 10, 2008
In case you haven’t fig­ured it out yet, my moniker of choice, Sub­ur­ban Wife, is a lit­tle poke of fun at myself. On the sur­face, I am very much a sub­ur­ban wife. We live in the ‘burbs and I’m a wife. Not only that — despite the fact that I’m employed full-time, [...]
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$$: Dec 5 — Baby, It’s Cold Inside

By Suburban Wife | Published: December 9, 2008
Mur­phy showed up today and as we all know, vis­its from Mur­phy can be expensive. Our portable elec­tric heater broke.  While I was using it.  In the base­ment.  It was cold out­side.  It was warm in the base­ment until the heater broke. Hon­estly, I felt betrayed.  The mal­func­tion was com­pletely unex­pected.  The heater wasn’t all that old.  [...]
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$$: Sleep Study edition

By Suburban Wife | Published: November 25, 2008
I spent last night in the local hospital’s sleep lab.  The hope, now that my thy­roid has been com­pletely removed and my throat (for the most part) healed from the surgery, was that I’d no longer suf­fer from obstruc­tive sleep apnea. Let me assure you, there is very lit­tle sleep done dur­ing a “sleep” study.  If the [...]
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