Non-Consumer Mish-Mash —
by Katy on June 20, 2025 · 2 comments
Bells & Whistles for my Date Book
I scavenged a piece of hot pink poster board from my neighbor’s recycling bin and used it to add a few features to my homemade daily planner. I then grabbed a couple leftover scraps from my classroom map blinds as the sturdy paper is backed with fabric. My used-to-be-a-regular-blank-book now has a built-in bookmark and pen holder.
The best part is that the poster board was a leftover anti-fascist sign from the No Kings march! My secret stand against an authoritarian regime.
Here are my vintage map blinds for those who didn’t read the blog back in 2011:
Dim Sum
My husband and I went out for Chinese dim sum and brought the leftovers to our daughter’s apartment. We try not to eat out too often, but when we do we lean towards food we can’t make at home. For those in the Portland area, the restaurant Excellent Cuisine on S.E. Division Street is the absolute best, especially their dim sum!
The total was $50 for six plates of food, including a tip.
Egg Prices!
My husband I stopped at Winco after dim sum and stocked up on eggs, as this is the cheapest I’ve seen them all year. Time to make some more Deviled eggs!
Katy Wolk-Stanley
“Use it up, wear it out, make it do or do without.”
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1. Had to return berry boxes to nephew, but he and his family are on vacation. So, returned to his parents (DH’s S & BIL – they live next door to each other) and visited them. S asks if we want eggs as both households have chickens and they are overrun at the moment. YES, PLEASE! Gave us 2 (18 ct) cartons of eggs. One for us and 1 for brother that lives a mile down the road from us. FREE EGGS!!!
2. Made a loaf of English muffin bread the other day with ingredients I already had on hand. 2 slices of toast with butter and orange marmalade for breakfast along with the “nectar of the gods” (a.k.a. COFFEE).
3. DH has a group therapy session this morning (2 hours). Since I have to drive him, I will go sit somewhere, the park maybe, and work on crocheting dishcloths while I wait. Should get about 3 done during that time. Will park next to the restroom as I have unidentified GI issues and there are times it’s NOT pretty. Had testing on Tuesday. All the tests so far haven’t identified the problem yet. Waiting on the results of Tuesday’s test. Praying this provides some answers.
4. Tomorrow I’m taking a friend who doesn’t drive to her sister’s for the weekend. Sister has stage 4 cancer and is getting close to needing hospice care. Sister lives in a town about 30 minutes away. Just learned about a grocery outlet store in same town, so going to check that out while I’m there.
5. Have to clean off the kitchen table when I get home. You know what they say about flat surfaces accumulating stuff. About 80% of the table is currently covered. (Anyone have a shovel I can borrow?)
6. Picked up a cheap box of dryer sheets the other day. Can’t use for laundry as DH is allergic to ALL fabric softener, but I heard that if you put a dryer sheet in your mailbox, it will keep spiders and other critters OUT of your mailbox. Our mailbox is sort of in the woods next to a tree and there’s all kinds of critters in it. DH’s job is to clean outmailbox, then put a couple dryer sheets in the back and hope the insects and arachnids STAY OUT. (Last summer I stopped to get the mail and, thank heaven I looked up before reaching for the mailbox. There was a black snake on the tree just above the mailbox! NOPE – THE MAIL WILL WAIT ANOTHER DAY!)
If those dryer sheets are scented, put a couple of them under your car seat to work as air fresheners.
My mom’s friend crocheted her a dishcloth, and I think that thing stood up to heavy use for maybe 30 years; when my parents passed away, I used it for many years afterward. I keep looking for some more, but haven’t found any yet, not even at garage/estate sales.