September 24th in everyday life by lencurrie .

How To Clean A Scorched Pot – Yep, I did this…

I hate it when I do this, and I’d be lying if I said it’s the first time it’s happened..

Start boiling some water.. added (in this case it was a soup mix) ingredients.. and then go downstairs or get distracted.. 20 minutes later (conservatively).. SHIT!! I smell something!!

Here is the outcome after a brief scrubbing and leaving it outside overnight.

Who's the idiot who let the pot boil dry?? Oh wait.. me.

Ok, so I screwed up.. but since these are [...]

July 30th in everyday life, save money by lencurrie .

So we fired our cleaning lady…

Well, “fired” is such a strong word, I wouldn’t really use it in this scenario as it wasn’t so much something that our cleaner did or not did.. it was more along the thought that  ”We’re paying you $50 every two weeks or so to do something that we could and probably should be doing ourselves.”

A few years ago, my older roommate and I had a really good system in which every Saturday.. we’d have what we called “the power [...]