ha. my daily morning struggle. i just wipe with a wet sponge. another use for coffee grounds post-percolate that our office den mother / cleaner showed me - odor absorber. she leaves a...

second the dollar store option. these drying racks are a given in all chinese households and i bought mine at a housewares shop for about sixty cents.

if canopy is being billed as premium brand, then of course they're going to keep their marketing separate from walmart. retail branding 101.

bepsf: truthfully (as a buyer in shelter retail), it is really difficult to purchase products that are made completely in the states. american leather products may be upholstered in the state...

once while at a farmers' market, one of the vendors told me that fat or skinny didn't matter, as the diameter of an asparagus stays the same from the moment they push through the ground. fat ones a...

a trick my grandma taught me when left with a partial can/carton of chicken broth - pour into an extra ice cube tray and freeze, then pop one or two out as needed for stir fries or steaming veggies...

the interesting thing about mariage freres is that the company as we know it really is not that old. it was founded in more recent years (i think in the mid-80s) by two thai/french brothers, who ha...

have long been considering an air purifier as an asthmatic (dust, grass, cats...) living in metropolitan china (hello... pollution). my bedding is all encased in dust mite-proof covers so things ar...

wow, i thought i was ocd. but that's usually reserved for my packing. mixing and matching tops bottoms shoes for hours. but my apartment escapes with the cursory dish-washing, tras...

the bf and my ayi ('aunt' in mandarin; basically the title used for your house/office/gym/shop cleaning person here in china). my ayi is more like an actual ayi, cleans and cooks, but also scolds a...