While most of us are overwhelmed at the idea of organizing our own closets, The Sorry Girls have turned an empty loft into a Pinterest-worthy, live-in studio for their bustling business as creatives. The best part is that they furnished ...
Literature has a pretty extreme effect on people. For instance, I’m willing to bet that 25-33% of people who read that first sentence thought of Harry Potter immediately afterward. It’s a perfect example of the relationship people can have with a character or ...
Happy Green Monday aka the second Monday of December! I swear I’m not making these up. Green Monday started a handful of years ago as kind of a last ditch shopping extravaganza before the big holidays started rolling through. Here ...
On top of being broke, I’m also kind of a serious procrastinator. When I was younger, I called it “hedonism” or “rebellion” or something, but now that I’m 32 I know it’s actually called “I’m gonna not think about it ...
I never really thought bread was expensive. I mean, four dollars per loaf or whatever seemed pretty harmless to a teenager with minimal responsibilities and controlled income. Then, I tried living on my own, and suddenly – $4 per week? ...
Two websites have been able to break the internet recipe mold and keep me fed without forcing me to spend a whole bunch of money on extra groceries. ...
One of the main functions of my life that keeps me on the broke side is coffee. Specifically, espresso drinks. I have my winter drinks, like soy caramel lattes and peppermint mochas, but in the summertime (starting in early March, which indicates a ...
Grace Helbig and I have a lot in common. First and foremost, we share an obsession with the internet and have a compulsion to participate in online communities, no matter how futile. In addition to that, both Grace and I stumbled into femininity ...
Valfre is all about movie nights, cat drawings, pastries and female solidarity. ...
Let’s talk next-level food gifts for a second. Combine love for sustainability with equal or larger love of food and you have the entire schtick behind Back To The Roots. I first met this team when they’d just released their ...
For the book lovers in my family, I turn away from the obvious choice of "books" and give literary themed gifts that they're sure to love, and definitely don't own yet! ...
Let me preface by stating that FreshPaper gift cards are definitely not for everyone in your life, but if there’s a chef, gardener, farmer, or veggie-junkie in your life, be sure and tack one of these very special gift cards to ...
The moment in which I felt most understood was the moment I saw this scene from 30 Rock: Liz Lemon gets me. Heaven is being wrapped in a Snuggie next to a wood stove, just me, a knife, & a block of ...
Cast iron is an incredibly important part of my kitchen arsenal. One of the pans I have – a 10″ skillet – was used by my 65 year old father to cook breakfast for his brothers when he was a kid. ...
It’s so tempting to call this “crap stock” because I’m bratty, but we’ll stick with Vegetable Scrap Stock. This is one of the best, most economical tricks I’ve learned in my decade of experience as a semi-professional broke person. Vegetable ...
My boyfriend found Tuft & Needle by Googling the phrase "Warby Parker for mattresses." I'm not sure what led him to do this, but when you see their website it totally makes sense. Clean and beautiful web design, low prices--and, ...
Today, I asked my good friend and star of my sidebar Dana from the amazing food blog, Killing Thyme, to wax poetic about her favorite broke food: grilled cheese. Two pieces of bread, X amount of cheese, and a little butter – you’ve ...
Alliteration, extreme! I had to make an impressive title for an impressive brownie. After weeks spent scouring the internet for a specifically black bottom black bean brownie, I decided that I should put my blogging where my mouth is and ...
The way that I eat is not really that different from the way I dress, if that makes sense. No, of course it doesn’t. I mean the way that I shop for food is not that different from the way ...
No, thankfully, I am not offering up a shoebox of poorly constructed mix tapes from my 31 flavors of previous relationships, though that isn’t a bad idea… Wait, yes it is. I’m talking about Cassette From My Ex, the book ...