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  • Shroomin with Babci

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    Tweet This past weekend, actually this past month, I’ve been feeling rather horrible.  I finally got put on some antibiotics, but they weren’t strong enough and after they wore off my virus came back with a vengeance on Friday night.  That in addition to the rest of my family being under the weather as well,…

  • Babci’s Cleaning and Storage Tips for Slobs

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    Tweet When you go to Babci’s house, for the most part, it looks tidy.  Here’s a little secret I’ll share with you.  She is actually a slob.    I think it’s due to a combination of growing up in a tiny house with no storage and having to work around the clock with manual labor. First…

  • Uncle’s Story Part 3: Family and the Sad End

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    Tweet These last couple of weeks I’ve been writing about my uncle’s amazing life story into 3 much too short posts.  If you missed the other segments, you can go read Love During War and Digging out of Poverty  first. As my uncle dug himself out of poverty, he also did something very charitable.  He…

  • Babci’s Enchanted Garden

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    Tweet Summer and Fall are my favorite times of year.  Each season has it’s own special something but I love when the bounty starts rolling in from the gardens this time of year.  Spring is full of new life after a cold winter but it is also full of work. You are weeding, mulching, transplanting,…

  • When Babci’s Frugalness Goes too Far

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    Tweet   I spent most of Sunday mudding my mom’s hallway and while I was there, it got me thinking nostalgically about all the hours I’ve spent doing this or that around here home.  Since our fixer is mostly fixed (knock on wood), the bulk of our home improvement efforts have been at Babci’s 120…

  • Frugal Knives: Babci Loves Shivs

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    Tweet Yesterday, my husband reminded me that I should write about one of his favorite topics, Babci’s Shiv collection.   Back when we were still dating, my husband and a few of our friends liked to make up stories about babci’s past based on their observations about her and her surroundings.  For example, they were convinced…

  • Babci and Talking about Money

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    Tweet How many home computers does it take to toast a router in 7 months?  Apparently 3.   This week has been plagued with connectivity issues which is a killer when you have Vontage and work from a home office.  What’s worse is that I didn’t even suspect the router at first because it was still…

  • Rough Week – Babci’s having Surgery

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    Tweet Sorry for my absence this week. It’s been one of those weeks that reminded me of how my body used to get right after finals in college. It literally would hang on til the last final was over and then break down into a cold or flu. This week I found out that Babci…

  • Babci Wears Men’s Underwear

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    Tweet Jockey’s Size 44 to be exact. We women have long known that there is no such thing as gender neutral pricing policies when it comes to things like dry cleaning and  clothing prices.  As much as I try to buy “classic” clothing, women’s fashion changes so often that I end up spending a small…

  • Today Babci Turns 78

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    Tweet Just a quick note today.  It’s Babci’s birthday. She’s 78. I am not quite finished with the post about how she wears men’s underwear so you’ll just have to wait for that. It’s amazing to think that she’s been in this country for over 40 years already. I don’t have a lot of time…