Repurposing bread clips

Here is something my husband shared with me recently, he saw it on LifeHacker. Repurposing those plastic tags on your bread to label the cords on your electronics. I thought it was such a simple, easy and yet brilliant idea.

Here is another article with some more ideas for repurposing those bread tags.

Replacing our Clunker Refrigerator - the saga continues

Soon the moment of truth came when the refrigerator was delivered. The old refrigerator was moved out of our kitchen and into our garage so that it could be picked up by our utility company who was going to recycle it for us. Our utility company offered a small rebate for buying an energy star qualified refrigerator and another small rebate for having it recycled.

When the new refrigerator was slid into the open space of our old refrigerator we found out that it was a little wider and a little taller than our old refrigerator, but that it will fit with the removal of some of the "trim" on the bottom of the cabinet above the refrigerator. Well removing the "trim" was easier said than done since these cabinets are over 60 years old and are solid wood. It took several hours of chiseling and smoothing out and shaving off the heads of nails and such, but we careful removed enough of the "trim" without causing any real damage to the cabinet or leaving the cabinet unsupported.


The end result was worth it to us. We got a beautiful new side-by-side refrigerator with ice and water in the door, complete with a lock for the ice and water. That being said there is no way that a bigger refrigerator would ever fit in that space without removing cabinets so we will enjoy our version of a jumbo refrigerator and just feel spoiled as if this were the biggest refrigerator ever, because for us this is the biggest refrigerator ever to fit in this house.

A little Halloween cheer

The previous homeowners left behind this wreath when they moved out so I thought I'd spice it up a bit for Halloween. I toyed with various ideas on how exactly I wanted to decorate it, but since I was a little short on time I decided to simply cut out some ghosts from the white cardboard on the bottom of an old gift bag (the gift bag was all torn up and unusable). Then I drew on eyes and mouths with a black sharpie marker. I also used the black sharpie marker to draw the ghosts with so that the outline would be there to help make the ghosts stand out a bit. Once the ghosts were all cut out and had their faces I took a needle and some thread and made a little loop out of thread on the top of each ghost so that I could hang them like ornaments from the wreath.